Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first season Veeck took over, attendance jumped from 558,182 to over a million; two years later he set a big-league record...
Suits for Ballplayers. In 1947, Bill Veeck shook Cleveland fans with a threat to sell Lou Boudreau, his star shortstop and playing manager-but no one was certain Veeck had not played it that way deliberately. Boudreau stayed by public acclamation next season, and every time he crossed the plate he scowled up at Veeck's box. Cleveland thought it knew exactly what Boudreau was muttering-"That'll show him." Boudreau in his biggest year in baseball showed the boss so well that the Indians won their first American League pennant in 28 years. When they also beat...
...fast-break attack did not function so smoothly or so effectively as it might have, and therefore, the Crimson resorted to more of a control-type game. In addition, Harvard's scoring trailed off at the end of both periods, a deplorable trend which marked most of last season's discombooberations. In the last two minutes of play, Tufts threw in eight points to the Crimson's three...
Neither a "Tech's - a - poppin'" weekend crowd nor a co-ed cheerleading squad could help MIT in the Arena Saturday night as the Crimson successfully opened its hockey season with a 10 to 5 victory over the Engineers. But evens, the varsity did not turn in a polished performance...
...good hockey for more than a few minutes at a time. This condition might easily be laid to lack of practice and understandable opening game unsteadiness, but another performance of this sort will not beat Boston University tomorrow nor any of the strong Pentagonal League contenders later in the season...