Word: shoeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shoeless Wonder. In the Brubeck home at Concord, Calif, (pop. 12,493), his mother kept five pianos. Dave was playing the piano by the time he was four; he started searching almost as soon as his fingers touched the keys. Instead of practicing the method of famed Piano Pedagogue Tobias Matthay, used by his mother for her stream of pupils, little David spent every minute that the keyboard was free picking out pieces of his own. He tried harder to please his father (who gave him four cows when he was eight and called Dave his "partner"); later he learned...
...World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. In his beat, Dunkley dubbed the team the Black Sox-and the name stuck. A few days later he also reported the memorable remark of a boy so stunned by the news that he ran up to the Black Sox's "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, crying...
Barred spectators, shivering in a cold rain, tried to follow events with binoculars from distant trees, but caught only glimpses of the sniffly athletes as they jounced and bounced through shoeless track and field contests. The peekers noted that even bathing caps were ruled out of the 50-yd. breaststroke event. But until President Fankhauser saw fit to announce the results, no treetop spectator could know who had won what. Not even programs would help, because it was difficult to tell one unnumbered performer from another...
Died. Joseph ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson, 63, one of baseball's greatest hitters (a lifetime average of .356 in 1,330 games), who was kicked out of organized baseball after he and seven Chicago White Sox teammates admitted they took bribes to throw the 1919 Series to the Cincinnati Reds; of a heart attack; in hometown Greenville, S.C. His part in the "Black Sox" scandal was complicated by the facts that he 1) was almost illiterate, 2) batted .375 in the series, 3) probably never received the $20,000 promised, 4) later repudiated his confession. In later years, from...
Instead, the old ballplayer disintegrated, subtly but suddenly, into a jerky, rubber-faced caricature of all the rough diamonds of the diamond since the days of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Something seemed to go wrong with his eyes, and he was seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...