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Word: stadiums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventh-place (American League) Detroit Tigers, with bespectacled Rookie Paul Trout pitching: a baseball game (6-to-1) against the-tip-top New York Yankees: handing the World Champion Yankees their first defeat in 13 games, ending the longest winning streak of the season; at Yankee Stadium, The Bronx. By week's end, the Cincinnati Reds, leaders in the National League pennant race, had also spun a string of twelve victories in a row, were finally defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Hallowell, Jack Seborer, Emile Dubiel, Milt Green, Norm Cabbera--these have become legendary figures in the annals of Harvard track. And there is no doubt that spectator interest in Crimson track teams has declined since the days when hundreds of athletes and thousands of fans annually poured into the Stadium to witness the country's college cinder classic--the I. C. 4-A meet...

Author: By Spencer Kiew, | Title: Crimson Cinders Blessed With One Of The Best Harvard Track Contingents | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...Lane Blackwell, Jr. '39, of Cambridge and Eliot House, was chosen yesterday to deliver the annual Ivy Oration in the Stadium on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blackwell Chosen To Deliver Annual Ivy Oration Here | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

Since the site of the orations was shifted from Sanders Theatre to the Stadium in 1905, they have lost whatever serious tone they had retained up to that time. In 1910 humorist Frank Sullivan was the Ivy Orator, and was followed two years later by Robert Benchley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blackwell Chosen To Deliver Annual Ivy Oration Here | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

Sitting on the bench in Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Gehrig (known as Buster to his teammates) blubbered as he watched Babe Dahlgren take over his old stamping ground at first base, then silently watched his buddies hand the Tigers their worst defeat (22-10-2) in 27 years.* He graciously shook hands with young Dahlgren after the game, but the only Yankee who dared try to console him was Pitcher Lefty Gomez. "Hell, Lou." said Lefty, "it took 15 years to get you out of the game; sometimes I'm out in 15 minutes." In the grandstand, viewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Iron Horse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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