Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ada E. Foote Wrigley, about 90, widow of William Wrigley Jr., who minted millions from chewing gum, owned baseball's Chicago Cubs; after eleven years in a coma; in Pasadena, Calif...
...sixth as Ernie Banks. 27. stepped into the batter's box. He stared stoically while the Phillies' Lefthander Curt Simmons wound up. then whipped around his light (31 oz.) bat like a willow switch. Rising steadily, the ball whistled out of Chicago's Wrigley Field to ricochet crazily through the neighborhood beyond. And the cumbersome Cubs were finally on their way to winning a ball game...
...many of those luscious-legged drum majorettes from such towns as Magnolia, Ark. and Kitchener, Ont. Later in the week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 7). The kids danced to a big band in the Aragon Ballroom. In case anybody thought the recession was a problem, some of the members passed out buttons reading...
...winter baseball meetings of 1956, O'Malley cornered his old friend Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, and poured out his troubles. He wanted to buy the Cubs' minor-league franchise in Los Angeles. "I wanted to bring the New York situation to a head," says he blandly. "I wanted an anchor to windward." A couple of months later, O'Malley announced that Wrigley had agreed to sell, touching off the fanciest baseball guessing game since the Black Sox scandal...
...course, that he was handed the necessary real estate for next to nothing, and the Dodgers were handled like benefactors of the body politic. Still O'Malley played coy. He insisted that he would stay in Brooklyn if he could. But between the time he spoke to Wrigley and the time he announced the deal, he had visited Los Angeles. He scarcely wasted a glance on the small (23,000), antiquated Wrigley Field, where his newly acquired Los Angeles Angels played their games. There was a place called Chavez Ravine that he wanted to see. Walter took one look...