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...brilliant Second Baseman Bobby Doerr, who played his last game on Labor Day before reporting for Army induction. A month before, Red Sox pitching had suffered a body blow when the Navy claimed 18-game winner Tex Hughson. Although $65,000 had been promptly peeled off Owner Tom Yawkey's bulging bank roll for two Pacific Coast League pitchers, Rex Cecil and Clem Dreisewerd (who beat the Yankees in his debut), the experts still figured that lack of pitching would keep Boston among the also-rans...
When the dream finally came true, rival club-owners rubbed their palms. Here was a rich and unwary newcomer on whom they could unload some of baseball's expensive gold bricks. They had done it when Millionaire William Wrigley Jr. bought the Cubs, when Millionaire Tom Yawkey bought...
...recent years, Harris had been handicapped by front-office interference. With the Boston Red Sox he was under the watchful eye of one of the smartest men in baseball, immortal Second Baseman Eddie Collins, who had been hired by Boss Yawkey to oversee his team of expensive prima donnas. Back with the Senators, after one season at Boston, Harris had to cope with aging Owner Clark Griffith, the Old Fox, who expected him still to be the Boy Wonder with Cuban semi-pros and Class-D bushers...
...empty. Boston College, meanwhile, may be turning people away at the Red Sox ball park. The B.C. Eagles could arrange their schedule so that their big games would come on days when the Stadium is vacant and then pay Bill Bingham the same cut of the gate which Tom Yawkey has been getting. This would be a sounder solution of B.C.'s problem than the proposed Boston municipal stadium, "The Beanbowl." Harvard, too, would gain. Without any increased emphasis on the brawny side of college life, the H.A.A. could get a golden nest-egg to tide the athletics program through...
Blessed with a brace of talented twirlers that would make the moneybags under Tom Yawkey's eyes turn green with envy, Coach Floyd Stahl guided the nucleus of his 1941 baseball team into its second week of practice in Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon...