Word: yawkeys
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...miles north of the stockyards, where buyers haggle over cattle on the hoof, owners of National and American League baseball teams got together in Chicago's Palmer House last week to haggle over players. When the trading was over, two men had made the biggest news: Thomas Austin Yawkey, 30, baseball's youngest tycoon, and Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 71, baseball's oldest, most famed manager. Connie Mack's news was sad, but inevitable. His Philadelphia Athletics lost $190,000 last year, and Philadelphia bankers were pressing payment of $250,000 in notes. Also some...
...Yawkey, foster son of the late Detroit Lumberman William Hoover Yawkey, celebrated his 30th birthday last February by buying the Boston Red Sox for $1,000,000. The club has been in or very near last place in the American League since 1924. Knowing Boston for an enthusiastic baseball town, Sportsman Yawkey set out to rebuild the team. Including last week's deals he spent $405,000 for new players. Also he replaced Marty McManus with Bucky Harris as manager. Result: dopesters conceded Boston a good chance to finish high next year. Philadelphia's Catcher Cochrane went...
...Boston Red Sox under their new owner Thomas Yawkey and the St. Louis Browns, with some new outfielders and pitchers, still look weak...
...Since then the Red Sox have finished last in the American League every year except 1924 when they were seventh, 1931 when they were sixth. Last week Owner Quinn gloomily announced that he had sold his team, for an unspecified price estimated at $1,000,000, to Thomas Austin Yawkey, Manhattan sportsman. Said Quinn: "I have been carrying for many years a load that would make most men jump out of a 14th story window. I tried and spent plenty of money to build up the Red Sox. I failed and I apologize...
Foster son of William Hoover Yawkey, Detroit lumberman and onetime owner of the Detroit Tigers, Thomas Austin Yawkey inherited $4,000,000 from his mother, who died when he was 15. Last month, on his 30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season...