Word: sox
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With the candidacy of Wendell Willkie, Negro political hopes revived. Big, coffee-colored Dr. J. B. Martin, a Memphis druggist for 30 years, president of a Negro baseball league and owner of the Memphis Red Sox, took over the leadership, organized Republican Negroes for a campaign. The Crump machine took one quick look and went into high...
...Goose Goslin, Alvin Crowder, Bump Hadley, Buddy Myer, Cecil Travis, Bucky Harris. He also unearthed Joe Cronin, picked up in Kansas City for $7,500 and sold seven years later -after he had become the Senators' manager and married the boss's daughter - to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. Engel's "finds" helped bring Washington three pennants in ten years...
What will probably happen is that a preliminary series of sox lectures will be given, possibly during December, to determine how widespread interest is These lectures will deal with the branches of the army and the type of service required in each. An attempt will be made to sign up those who would attend a longer series during the winter and it the number is sufficient the course will...
...Reds, National League pennant winners: baseball's 37th annual World Series; nosing out the slugging Detroit Tigers, American League champions, 2-to-1, in the seventh and last game; the National League's first victory since 1934, Cincinnati's first world championship since the scandalous Black Sox series of 1919; at Crosley Field, Cincinnati...
...crowd jampacked Detroit's Briggs Stadium. Del Baker's Tigers, a scrappy outfit, with three dependable pitchers and five players hitting over .300, had, despite their creaky infield, chugged along neck & neck with the Indians all summer - fighting off the challenges of the Yankees and White Sox in the most exciting stretch run in the history of the American League...