Word: sisler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Sisler, aged 32, baseman and manager of the St. Louis Browns, graduate of the University of Michigan. Suave, courteous, assured, imperially slim, his genius for baseball was observed as early as 1913 by Barney Dreyfus, astute owner of the Pittsburgh club, who put him under contract before he had come of age. Sisler's father repudiated the contract. St. Louis bid for him. Mr. Dreyfus would not give him up. The controversy, a sensational one, was referred to the National Commission, which finally awarded Sisler to St. Louis. Pittsburgh never forgave...
Such is the tact of George Sisler, such his control, that never in his career has he resorted to rowdyism to intimidate a refractory umpire. He was suspended only once and then, in 1924, because some supporter of his, enraged when an umpire called a close decision against him, discharged a shower of bottles upon the unfortunate official. He wrote a letter to the President of the American League, was restored to standing...
...beams, which should have been parallel, wellnigh met. Thus he came near to being crossed in his career by his own eyes. His batting average of .420 in 1922 sank to .305 in 1924. Now he sees perfectly again, he says. Will he, fans wonder, regain his former prowess? Sisler has three children, a wife. She, shyer than he, has never been photographed...
...baseball, as in business, the college traimed man has an advantage over men who never went to college", said George S. Sisler star first baseman and manager of the St. Louis Browns to a CRIMSON reporter recently. Mr. Sisler is a graduate of the University of Michigan...
...American League baseball team: "Figures compiled by a baseball statistician show that I, during my lifetime in the American League, have played in 2,449 games and have had a batting average of .370. There followed games and batting averages of other leading players now in the American League: Sisler, St. Louis 1047 .361 Speaker, Cleveland 2182 .348 Ruth, New York 945 .347 Collins, Chicago 2310 .331 Heilman, Detroit...