Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week at Wrigley Field, Grimm & Co. face the first of a dozen tough games with the second-place Cardinals. If the Cubs come through, there is little chance of their being stopped short of the World Series...
...baseball's best hitter, Waterloo is spelled Chicago. Tommy Holmes has found it hard to buy a hit at Wrigley Field all season, and last week his jinx park stopped him again-after he had hit safely in 37 straight games to bust Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record of 33. (Anyhow, the Boston Braves's roly-poly, 180-lb. right fielder had modestly figured Wee Willie Keeler's ancient 44-game mark as his goal, and had not seriously hoped that his luck would hang around until he caught Joe DiMaggio's American...
...year. For 78 games he had a .396 average that nobody in either league could challenge. He had also batted in more runs (69) than anyone else, and was runner-up in homers, with 14. He had gone hitless in just six of his 78 games (three at Wrigley Field...
...Wrigley's chewing gum except "Orbit" (made from grade-B chicle), and 75% of Beech-Nut production is going to the armed forces...
...seemed unlikely to be boosted any higher by Wrigley 's idea of mixing bats and batons. Only 659 people attended last week's doubleheader, first of a series of four. Sporting and musical experts agreed that some ball fans might be converted into music lovers, but that the reverse possibilities were dubious...