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...Eddie Collins Jr., son of the Baseball Immortal who helped bring fame to Connie Mack's pre-War Athletics, and Pitcher Joe Wood Jr., son of famed "Smoky Joe"* who won 34 games for the Red Sox in 1912. At Colgate another Immortal's son, Pitcher George Sisler Jr., has proved he is a chip...
...YORK--The name of George Sisler, one of the greatest first-basemen of all time, today led all the rest as he and two other diamond immortals--"Wee Willie" Keeler and Eddie Collins--were elected to baseball's hall of fame...
...Sisler, now a radio sports announcer and High Commissioner of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, took his place in the Cooperstown Shrine, with the greatest landslide of votes in the history of balloting...
...members of the Baseball Writers Association who participated in the poll, 235 of them voted for Sisler. Collins, vice-president-treasurer of the Boston Red Sox, received 213 votes and the late Keeler of "hit 'em where they aint" fame barely squeezed in. He was picked by 207 writers, one more than the 75 per cent total, or 206, necessary for election this year...
...softball became a craze, nobody knows. Promoters have at least been shrewd enough to profit from it. George Sisler, longtime first baseman for the St. Louis Browns, who now has a St. Louis sporting goods store, is head of the American Association, owns two softball parks in St. Louis, controls three others. Ordinary softball parks seat 4,000, cost $3,500 to build and, with 10? admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip...