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Word: played (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought back indoors, stripped of its aliases and launched as a big-time winter sport. Patterned after major-league baseball's setup, the National Professional Indoor Baseball League sold franchises to New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Each club, locally financed, is to play a 102-game schedule from mid-November to mid-March, with a World Series at season's end between Eastern and Western champions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Baseball | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Tris Speaker, Cleveland's baseball Immortal who has spent the past nine years as a radio sportcaster, Hollywood actor, minor-league club owner, wholesale liquor dealer and steel salesman. Managing the Cleveland club is another onetime Indian, baldpate Bill Wambsganss, only baseballer ever to make an unassisted triple play in a World Series (against the Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Baseball | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

William Gerhardi, a polyglot Englishman who was born in Russia, has written novels, short stories, a play, a critical biography of Chekhov. He is perhaps most widely known for his novel The Polyglots. Last week he added to his list a long (484-page), glittering, malicious, at times staggeringly funny history of the Romanov dynasty. Subtitled Evocation of the Past as a Mirror for the Present, it is a profuse record of peculiarly dizzy people in a peculiarly dizzy part of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broad Russian Nature | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

House indoor baseball opens its schedule at the Briggs Cage next Monday afternoon, Adolph Samborski '25, director of Intramural Athletics, announced Saturday. Leverett and Dunster play at 4 o'clock, and a game between Dudley and Eliot starts at 5 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Opens Next Week | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Scoring once early in the game, the Elis made their second touchdown in the closing minutes of play when Smith intercepted a long pass thrown by Jitbug White and returned it for a touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VANDERBILT BEATS BELLBOYS | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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