Word: stirnweiss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul Land's 100 fellow passengers. George ("Snuffy") Stirnweiss, longtime speedy New York Yankee second baseman (1943-50) turned businessman, got on at Red Bank, bound for a lunch date in the city. At the Deal station Attorney Leonard Fisch, 50, climbed aboard; it was Rosh Hashana, a Jewish holy day, and Fisch was going into Manhattan to spend it with his father...
...survivor of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died at the bottom of the bay. So did Attorney Fisch. Dead, too, were Engineer Wilburn and Fireman Peter Andrew...
Died. George ("Snuffy") Stirnweiss, 38, American League batting champion in 1945 with a lowly .309 average, infielder (1943-51) for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians; in the Jersey Central train wreck at Newark Bay (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...