Word: sutphin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American League is considered a minor league mainly because its franchises are cheaper and its salaries lower. Favorite to win the title for the fourth successive year are the Cleveland Barons, owned by Cleveland Inkman Albert Sutphin and managed by Bill Cook, onetime Ranger star. For several years, the National League has tried to get Cleveland to join its lopsided seven-team loop. But Owner Sutphin has turned a deaf...
...When Sutphin bought the Cleveland franchise in 1934, Cleveland was the only club in the league (then known as the International League) that was financially independent. The others were farms for the members of the rich National League. Sutphin, a glad-hand supersalesman, set out to raise the American League to a big-time standard...
Though Ringleader Sutphin may never realize his dream of a hockey World Series between the champions of the American and National Leagues, the up-&-coming American circuit puts on a hell-for-leather hockey show attracts almost as many spectators as the National League. Last year Cleveland's Barons outdrew the New York Rangers. Nearly as large a following had the little Hershey Bears, owned and operated by a trust fund set up by chocolate-rich Milton S. Hershey for his chocolate-bar paradise at Hershey...