Word: season
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing Hoffmann this season in the City Opera's first production of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann...
...baseball training season was just about over, and 16 major-league clubs were heading north for Opening Day next week. Was this the year when big-league play would finally pull itself out of the postwar doldrums? Oldtimers, looking back to more glamourous days, hoped so, but if it was, there had been no sign of it in six weeks of spring training...
...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
Paul Samborski will catch for the Governor Dummer nine when his father, Coach Dolph, sends his freshman team into its second game of the season at 3 p.m. today on Soldiers Field...
This year's onlookers will miss the police prowl cars that carried the loudspeakers last year, but they should receive more complete coverage by the Key's new system. The funning commentary planned for this spring will surpass last season's intermittent announcements...