Word: heilmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three for Cooperstown" [TIME, Feb.1], you mention that Bill Terry holds the fourth highest batting average in modern baseball [after Hornsby, Heilmann, and Ruth]. Just how does Ty Cobb forfeit his modern-day baseball slot...
...Terry, 19 years with the. New York Giants as player and manager (three penants), was the last National Leaguer to hit over .400 (.401 in 1930), and finally racked up his bat with a brilliant lifetime average of .341, fourth highest in modern baseball history, after Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Babe Ruth. Gruffed Bill Terry, 55, now a well-heeled Jacksonville, Fla. Buick dealer: "I have nothing to say about...
...good Bavarian Catholics, Gretl Gugel and Antonie Saam, both 11, and ten-year-old Marie Heilmann were much inspired by the movie The Song of Bernadette. They talked about the miraculous appearance of the Virgin at Lourdes as they walked home to the small village of Heroldsbach (pop. 1,100) where they lived. Suddenly one of them let out a scream. As they described it later, first she, then the others, saw a light and a vision of the Virgin. "Mother Mary came to us," they told their parents when they got home...
...Detroit Outfielder Harry Heilmann and Pittsburgh Outfielder Paul ("Big Poison") Waner, niches No. 61 and 62 in baseball's Hall of Fame. Heilmann, who died last July, led the American League batters four times between 1921-27, ended 1923 with a fabulous .403. Waner, in his 20-year career, topped the National League hitters three times...
Recently, hearing that Heilmann was seriously ill, Cobb wrote to several of his baseball-writer friends, urging them not to bypass Harry in this year's selections. Last week New York Times Columnist Arthur Daley printed part of Cobb's letter, agreed that Heilmann's election was, long overdue. The appeal came too late. At last week's All-Star game in Detroit, 50,000 fans stood and observed a moment of silence. The day before, Harry Heilmann, 56, had died of cancer in Detroit...