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Long rumored to replace Grimm, Hartnett's appointment, when it finally came, caused a stir among baseball fans. The Cubs were in third place in the National League pennant race, had just won seven games in a row before losing to the resurgent Dodgers, and their $185,000 investment...
Two days later, General Manager MacPhail again showed his sense of showmanship by signing Spectator Ruth as coach for the seventh-place Dodgers at a salary of $15,000 for the remainder of the season.
When Leland Stanford ("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...
By the sixth inning, the 40,000 Brooklyn rooters began to twist their score cards. No Dodger had succeeded in getting a hit. Even hard-boiled sportswriters screamed "Come on, kid!" as the seventh inning began with young Vander Meer walking two batters. But Vander Meer, revolving through his elaborate...
Meanwhile, there was great moaning in Brooklyn when its baseball fans read the life story of young Vander Meer in the newspapers. They were not stirred by the fact that he had pitched five no-hit, no-run games in one season when he was 16 (for New Jersey semi...