Word: sox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt cannot be completely forgotten today, however, for he will toss out the ball which will officially signify the opening, as the Washington Senators square off with the Philadelphia Athletics in Griffith Stadium. Here in Boston Thomas Yawkey's million dollar Red Sox will tangle with the World Champion New York Yankees. For two straight years both New York nines have wound up facing each other in the World Series. For the good of baseball everyone is hoping that the 1938 season may see a change. In the American League the return of the fabulous "Schoolboy" Rowe...
Colleges are unfair unfair to organized baseball was the general theme of an interview with Eddie Collins, General Manager of the Boston Red Sox, yesterday at Fenway Park...
...ordeal of watching the Red Sox play their regular season has been gruesome enough of late without witnessing an exhibition game. Yesterday's class was no exception. Boston's million-dollar Hose merely went through the motions. The outfielders took so long getting to and from their positions that the game was on several occasions held up noticeably. Slugger Jimmy Fox struck out twice, the final time to end the game, and each time he laid his bat down so carefully that there was absolutely no danger of damaging the hickory...
...number of base knocks. Third baseman Higgins, second sacker Doerr, and hurler Byron T. Humphreys, who pitched the last inning, all gave a good account of themselves. Manager Cronin, although one winced at his shortstopping a couple of times, really hit the ball hard. In all, the Sox garnered nine hits...
There were two Sox rooters. Gossip had it that they were Messrs. Yawkey and Collins. Purple centerfielder Ouellette and third baseman Durand looked so good that someone yelled that the Sox ought to pick them up them and there. Someone answered that the Sox already had picked up former Purple star Desautels. He didn't look...