Word: cincinnatis
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...Larry") MacPhail was hired to run the Brooklyn Dodgers last winter, the baseball world, with good reason, expected him to pull rabbits from the baseball cap of the Brooklyn club. With a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, Larry MacPhail had in three years yanked the Cincinnati Reds out of a decade of doldrums by painting the ball park orange, introducing girl ushers decked in what he called lounging pajamas, starting a Red farm system and inaugurating night baseball. Brooklyn sat up in its seats...
...corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati Reds, MacPhail's old boys, most of whom he himself had rounded up from the minor leagues...
Scheduled to pitch was Johnny Vander Meer, the Reds' rookie southpaw, who had pitched himself into baseball's Hall of Fame four days before when he won a no-hit, no-run game against the Boston Bees in Cincinnati. Practically the whole of Midland Park, N. J. (his home town) was in the stands to greet him. Dodger Pitcher Max Butcher threw the first ball, and the fans settled in their seats...
...consistent scorer of 1937, who had never lost a Walker Cup match (1934 or 1936). Other members of the team, chosen on the basis of performances during the past two years, were: Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie (runner-up to Goodman in last year's Amateur), Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati (Amateur champion in 1936), Freddy Haas of New Orleans (U. S. intercollegiate champion), Charley Kocsis of Detroit, Reynolds Smith of Dallas, Marvin Ward of Olympia, and Charley Yates of Atlanta. Some had played on Scottish links before and some had not. But all nine, including non-playing Captain Ouimet. tuned...
Carl L. Billman '35, of Winchester, assistant in History; William B. Cavin, Jr. '37, of Upper Darby, Pa; Joseph Charles, Los Angeles, assistant in History; Harold van B. Cleveland '38, of Cincinnati; Howard E. Cox, of Carthage, Ill; H. Shippen Goodhue '38, of Boston; George F. Lowman '38, of New Canaan, Ct.; George von L. Meyer, Jr. '38, of Hamilton, and Casper W. Weinberger '38, of San Francisco...