Word: player
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 31, fourth-ranking U.S. National Amateur tennis player and Davis Cupper, and second wife Nancy Pike Talbert, 26: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Pike. Weight...
...monastic life of the Order came the Bead Game, a kind of synthesis of human learning, which, in its subtlety, resembled both the chess game of master players and the improvisation of great musicians. One player stated a theme, perhaps a thought of a great philosopher, or a phrase of some medieval musician; his opponent replied with a complementary phrase, or with one opposing it, or related to it, and the Game proceeded, with constantly deepening associations, with references more varied, subtle and ingenious. The greatest players became the leaders of the Order, and the greatest of all its central...
...highest-paid player in baseball, had said in advance that he would give the money gifts from his hero-worshiping fans to charity. But there was a lot more than money ($7,500) in the gifts that were showered on him: two automobiles, a motorboat, two television sets, a radio, two watches, a $100 hat, an electric blanket, shirts, ties, a watch chain, potatoes, oranges, walnuts, lima beans, homemade lemonade, 300 quarts of ice cream. After the speeches, Joe bit his lip and let the tears run down his cheeks. "I thank the good Lord that he made...
...fine that Joe, the most popular player alive, was having his "day." To the 69,551 in Yankee Stadium, it was even better that he was back in the lineup. The Yankees, who had held onto first place since the very first day of the season despite 70 injuries to their players, had fallen a game behind. In one of the most frenetic baseball weeks since 1908,* Joe McCarthy's Boston Red Sox had taken over first place. In the National League, Burt Shotton's Brooklyn Dodgers had been suddenly handed a one-game lead when...
Reynolds himself was the only player to get two hits a double in the third and a single in the sixth. Johhny Lindell hit one of Newcombe's two slow pitches of the afternoon for a single in the second, and Gerry Coleman doubled in the eighth for the only other Yankee blows. No Yankee had reached third base until Henrich came...