Word: sox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with 14 major-league teams (all but the Boston Bees and Red Sox) and most of the minors, playing their hearts out for its Wheaties...
...cures will only be seen with the actions which follow. And America will follow the race, and undoubtedly--for we say this every year--the season will end with the subway series, a Boston dime as opposed to the New York nickel, between the Boston Bees and the Red Sox. For it could happen. The Yankees might be train wrecked, or drafted, or something...
...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...
...with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally found him in Pitcher Babe Ruth, whom they bought from the Boston Red Sox...
...average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs last week-gave almost the equivalent of $100,000 for the baseball find of the year...