Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Josh Gibson, the Homestead Grays or Negro baseball in general. Yet colored ball could have been good copy at any time since 1885, when the first professional Negro nine was made up of waiters from Long Island's tony Argyle Hotel. To be acceptable as opponents for local semi-pros, they posed as Cubans, babbled gibberish on the field, called themselves the Cuban Giants...
...that the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS has extended its publication to semi-weekly proportion, it seems that each Friday I am to be given the opportunity of expressing certain of my reactions to life, liberty and the pursuit of Ensigns who have failed to certify their copies to be true. Also, all news items, advice-to-the-lovelorn (with reservations, of course) and et cetera, are to be handled and mishandled here...
...Eddie Collins, who had been hired by Boss Yawkey to oversee his team of expensive prima donnas. Back with the Senators, after one season at Boston, Harris had to cope with aging Owner Clark Griffith, the Old Fox, who expected him still to be the Boy Wonder with Cuban semi-pros and Class-D bushers...
Poggenburg's Rise. Ed Gardner was born Eddie Poggenburg over a butcher shop in Astoria, L.I., 39 years ago, the only child of Irish-German parents. His father was an ornamental plasterer and semi-pro baseball player. Eddie's first job was playing piano in a saloon. He quit school at 16 because his parents did not want him overeducated...
Women softballers are nothing new. Scattered throughout the U.S. are some 40,000 semi-pro teams sponsored by breweries, taverns, bakeries, big industries and little individuals with a yen to see their names sprawled across the satin backs or sweatered fronts of cavorting U.S. tomboys. On Softball's miniature diamond (bases are 60 ft. apart instead of 90) and aided by Softball's underhand pitching, girls can pitch, bat, field grounders, otherwise perform like a reasonable facsimile of the male...