Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This season, though no one thinks they are championship material, the Pirates are looking better. Part-Owner Crosby seemed pleased with them, and the feeling was mutual. In pre-game practice at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field, the Pirates obligingly rifled 80% of their hits squarely at Bing. Crosby, a fair country ballplayer, stopped the ones that wouldn't knock out his front teeth, clowned on the rest of them. He hit fungoes, played around with a catcher's mitt (see cut). Then Bing watched morosely while his peanut-jinxed Pirates lost to the Chicago Cubs...
This week, WIND's Fearless Bert Wilson was at the mike as usual when Conzelman's Cardinals stalked the crosstown Chicago Bears in a battle royal at Wrigley Field. And as usual, Wilson had made his partisanship clear: "I don't care who wins, as long as it's the Bears." The temperature was a chilly 35°, but Conzelman's boys were hot. By beating the Bears, they won the National League western division championship, and silenced-at least for the moment-radio's voice of doom. Score: Cardinals 30, Bears...
...years, hapless straphangers have protested in vain. Chicago's traction troubles are rooted in corrupt politics and civic inertia. But last week Chicagoans were no less amazed than if they had suddenly seen the Wrigley Building afloat in Lake Michigan. The "traction problem" was apparently solved at last...
Draft Dodgers. In the diamond hierarchy, the P.C.L. has an unusual status. The 16 major-league clubs own or control 70% of the nation's 326 clubs in organized baseball. But the AAA coast league is 87½% independent (the one exception is Phil Wrigley's Los Angeles Angels). Still, the majors have kept a tight hold on the P.C.L. through the draft law, which forces the clubs to sell their stars or risk having them drafted at season's end for a niggling...
...confidence. In varying degrees all champions must have a deep belief in themselves. Henri Cochet and Fred Perry had plenty of it; Tilden, the prissy virtuoso, had it to an insolent degree. It is the same quality that enabled Babe Ruth to point to the right-field bleachers at Wrigley Field during one World Series game and slam the most famed home run of his career...