Word: sox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year Mr. Yawkey had a rebuilt stadium and an almost completely new roster of players including famed Robert Moses Grove who was Mickey Cochrane's longtime battery mate on the Athletics. Without Cochrane, Grove's pitching has not been up to scratch. Even so the Red Sox, consistent tail-enders in their league for the last nine years, were last week in third place, two games ahead of the hard-hitting Cleveland Indians. Washington was in fifth place. Philadelphia was establishing itself firmly in the lower half along with St. Louis and Chicago...
...home-runs was last week leading both leagues. Jimmy Foxx, who totaled 58 homeruns in 1932, was three behind Johnson. Babe Ruth last week hit the 698th homerun of his career (excluding World Series and exhibition games), with three men on base, in a game against the White Sox, bringing his total to 12 for this year, 14 behind his record year (1927). Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, who was expected to be leading homerun hitter as Ruth declined, was four behind Johnson. Last week in an exhibition game at Norfolk, Va. a pitched ball hit Gehrig on the head...
Third base: Traynor (Pirates) Dykes (White Sox...
...superstitions of his own. He thinks his pitching is hoodooed after he has won his first twelve games. Fortnight ago, after winning twelve in a row, he lost a game against the Cleveland Indians, which dropped the Yankees temporarily into second place. In his next appearance, the Chicago White Sox knocked him out of the box in the ninth. Last week, against the Boston Red Sox, Pitcher Gomez finally won his 13th game- the one which insured the Yankees first place on July...
Tigers 4Red Sox 2 Glants 12 Reds 1 Cardinals 7 Braves 3 Cubs 6 Phillies 5 Dodgers 9 Pirates...