Word: spud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitchers' pen, the Yankees had only one good prewar model, big Spud Chandler, who could be counted on for heavy duty. But just when three ambitious rivals thought they had uncovered the Yankees' soft spot, the Yanks suddenly uncovered two whizzbang rookies- string-bean (6 ft. 2½) Clarence Marshall and deadpan Randy Gumpert -in spring training...
...attracted new listeners by presenting famous people in the act of doing something out of character. At the request of its unseen audience, the show has had Charles Laughton giving Donald Duck elocution lessons, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior singing One Meatball, Edward Everett Horton mimicking Frank Sinatra, and spud-nosed W.C. Fields delivering a temperance lecture and drinking water (Fields: "Odd-looking stuff, isn't it? Don't they at least put an olive or a cherry...
There the Yanks had what some sportswriters called the pitcher-of-the-year, a tall, broad-shouldered right-hander named Spud Chandler, who retired 14 men in a row against Detroit. First American Leaguer to win 20 games this year, he had an earned-run average of 1.69, the league's lowest since Walter Johnson...
...poison to Yankee batsmen. But winning World Series* is a Yankee tradition, they have better pitching reserves, and the first three games are in New York, a distinct psychological advantage. Last week, as the Yanks wearily ground out the pennant-cinching run, the odds sloughed downwards. By the time Spud Chandler hurls the opening ball, the betting should be even...
...Spud-nosed, publicity-wise W. C. Fields, charged with stealing $20,000 worth of ideas from Writer Harry Yadkoe and using them in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, appeared in court with a keg-shaped thermos from which he refueled from time to time...