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...only "20year man" now playing in the majors, Luke Appling came up to the White Sox in 1930, and has been with them ever since (except for 1944 and most of 1945 when he was in the Army). Last week in a series with the Senators at Washington, he played his 2,154th game as a major-league shortstop, breaking the record previously held by the National League's Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville...
...ceremonies the night before, when Appling tied the Rabbit's record, Maranville-was on hand to congratulate him, Senator Clyde Hoey of North Carolina (Appling's native state) made a speech, and the White Sox management presented him with an envelope containing a blank slip of paper, in lieu of a bonus check for an" unnamed amount which the management promised to pay him later. Luke celebrated the occasion by rapping out two hits in four times at bat and handling his three chances in the field perfectly. The White Sox won the game...
...born in High Point, N.C., some 42 or 43 years ago, moved with his family to Atlanta, played shortstop at Fulton High and at Oglethorpe University (where he also played football). He left Oglethorpe after two years to play baseball with the Atlanta Crackers, and the White Sox snapped him up during his first season...
...time shortstop in modern baseball history. Appling makes more errors than a star infielder should, but he has led American League shortstops seven times in number of assists, and he is a wizard with bad-hopping grounders. He has made a crack double-play man out of the Sox's young second baseman, Cass Michaels, with whom Appling rooms on the road...
Like other clubs, the White Sox management does not announce players' salaries, but Appling is the highest paid performer on a sixth-place club that is going nowhere this year, and it is generally believed that he gets about $25,000. His pretense of laziness is an affectation. He is full of hustle and hates to lose a close game. Once, after the Sox lost a 1-to-0 heartbreaker, Luke brooded through his dinner and threw it up afterward. This year he has been evicted from four games for arguing too strenuously with umpires...