Word: sox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...browed, sensationally handsome young man whose entire previous acting experience consisted of one movie bit part. Guy Madison, 24, ex-telephone lineman, was allowed a seven-day leave from the Navy in 1944 to speak a few lines in a David O. Selznick production. The volume of ecstatic bobby-sox fan mail (some 62,000 letters, many addressed simply to The Cute Sailor in Since You Went Away) was staggering...
...nearly 40 years ago, shaggy-haired Hiram Conibear, ex-trainer of the Chicago White Sox, stood on the shore of Lake Washington and cussed through a megaphone, so loud that his University of Washington oarsmen could hear. When parents objected, Conibear confessed: "I have to cuss a little in order to bluff my way along." Washington's new crew coach didn't know the first thing about rowing...
...first thing Boss Veeck did was to count the customers. The 8,526 who went to see the Indians beat the league-leading Red Sox were a pretty small band. But there were only 22 people in the stands the day Veeck bought the bankrupt Milwaukee Brewers in 1941. Veeck soon put his theory to work in Milwaukee: good baseball for the fans, something extra for those who aren...
...Murphy hasn't budged from Boston. He simply waits for teams to come to town to play the Boston Braves and the Red Sox; the visitors are usually curious enough to go out to his place to hear his story. His main talking points: 1) a minimum wage of $7,500 a year, which sounds good to lesser lights who seldom finish up a season with enough carfare to get home; 2) 50% of the sale price to go to a player when he is sold to another club. Not until his union is good & strong does Murphy intend...
Just six hours before Dickey took over the Yanks, Chicago had a managerial upheaval too. It was twelve years ago that gabby James J. Dykes blew a smoke ring, calmly stabbed it with a pudgy forefinger and became manager of the Chicago White Sox. Since then he has averaged 15 cigars a day, and six seasons in the second division, and got stomach trouble worrying along his mediocre players. After the White Sox lost their 10th game in 13 last week, Jimmy Dykes quit under pressure. His successor: 45-year-old Ted Lyons, the Sox's veteran Sunday pitcher...