Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever managed both a National and American League pennant winner, become the first to win three World Series in a row? Will the Chicagoans succumb meekly, as they did not long ago to the same Yankees, in four games? One-quarter of these questions will be answered on Wrigley Field today...
...some 5,000,000 players (men and tomboys) and 200,000 teams (sponsored by churches, movie stars, saloons, banks) with names ranging from Slapsie Maxie's Curvacious Cuties to Bank of America Bankerettes. In Los Angeles there are 9,000 Softball clubs within a hundred miles of Wrigley Field (1,000 of them are women's teams...
Changing managers in midseason is no novelty. In the Cubs front office, under the Wrigley regime, it has become a deep-seated habit. Once (in 1925), the Cubs played under three different managers in one season. In 1930, Joe McCarthy (now manager of the New York Yankees) was replaced by Rogers Hornsby in the midst of a pennant tug of war. In 1932 Manager Hornsby (a $250,000 investment) was suddenly supplanted by First Baseman Charlie Grimm. Because Manager Grimm went on to win the pennant in 1932, Owner Wrigley last week had an excellent precedent to follow. Catcher Hartnett...
...Cubs, 37-year-old Gabby Hartnett, in his 17 years, has played under six of them, has become a smart handler of pitchers, a shrewd observer of men. Even Dizzy Dean once admitted that Gabby Hartnett was the only baseballer that was "smarter than me." But astute Owner Wrigley, well aware of the fact that brilliant ball players seldom have been successful as managers, did not give fun-loving Catcher Hartnett a new contract with his new job until the Cubs had tucked away a few victories...
While Hero Hartnett was the centre of a boisterous ring-around-a-rosy celebration at Wrigley Field just before his managerial debut in a double-header with the Dodgers (which they split), onetime Hero Charlie Grimm was on his way back to his Missouri farm. Mindful of his two pennants (1932 and 1935) and the enviable record of never finishing lower than third in the six years he managed the Cubs, Charlie Grimm smiled ruefully. "That's baseball." said...