Word: season
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besieged Berlin had weathered the winter. The West this week marked the victory and the season by moving to clean up the Berlin currency mess...
...most U.S. basketball fans thought they knew one thing for a fact: the two best teams in the country were Kentucky and St. Louis. Their meeting in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden was to be the big climax of the season. Last week the big moment came, but neither Kentucky nor St. Louis was there to meet it. In the biggest double upset of the season they had been knocked out of the championship class...
...higher farm at Buffalo, in the International League, where he played center eld as if he owned it, peppered the pitching for a .340 batting average, and hit 30 home runs. When the Tigers brought him into Briggs Stadium at the tag end of last season, Johnny drew a bead on the first big league ball ever pitched to him and sent it sailing 340 feet into the left-field stands...
...swinging late. His fielding, too, still lacks polish. "All I hope is that they won't expect miracles this first year," warns a Tiger coach. "I'll bet you right now he'll make half a dozen throws to the wrong base early in the season...
...Detroit brain trust was ready to overlook an occasional early-season error in judgment from the youngster they hoped would take over Joe DiMaggio's American League center-field crown some day. This week, in an exhibition game, the Yankees' Joe and the Tigers' Johnny got together for the first time. DiMaggio, hobbling by on his sore heel, went to bat as a pinch hitter and drew a walk; Groth got a single in five times at bat, tossed out a Yankee at the plate with a good throw from center field. Did Groth look like...