Word: flatbush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week there was Weltschmerz in Flatbush, Canarsie, Brownsville and Greenpoint. Brooklynites didn't like the looks of Howard Pollet, a 20-year-old southpaw the Cardinals had just brought up from their Houston farm. Dodger fans had seen enough of one left-handed Cardinal rookie, Ernie White, who had moidered their Bums in the first game of last week's series-to chalk up his 16th victory for St. Louis. The Pollet kid looked even better. In his major-league debut fortnight ago, he pitched a four-hit victory over the Boston Braves. Against the Dodgers last...
...Havana, where his prancing Dodgers, looking less than ever like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...February morning, the wind whistles off the snow and ice of the Flatbush meadows. The barracks at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, windows open, are very, very cold. And cold seems the heart of Sergeant Earl Sanborn, USMC, who on the dot of 6:15 clumps into the bunk room in his undershirt, pipes two shrill blasts on his whistle, bellows: "Hit the deck...
...rugby neighborhood near Church and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn, N. Y. was mostly farm land 60 years ago. An immigrant German wood carver bought one of the fields, partly by his own labor put up a two-story frame house, settled in with his wife and their five-year-old daughter. The little girl's name was Josephine Amelia Claudius. After she grew up, she used to say that she was descended from one of the Claudian Emperors of Rome. This statement did not surprise Mrs. McGee and Mrs. McCormick, who lived near by, nor Milton Bruck...