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...elusive Ruth causes even the most thorough of his researchers to resort to historiography when it comes to the fabled "called shot," in the 1932 World Series. Did Babe really point to a spot over the fence in Wrigley Field's deep center and hit the ball precisely to that spot? Creamer comes up with 16 eyewitness accounts and five pages of detailed analysis undermining the credibility of many of the writers who inspired the myth. But he never clearly disproves that the Babe pre-designated the ball's path...
...moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book, what really did happen, though different...
...doubt the two remaining clubs in the division will be tuned into Curt Gowdy's play-by-play next October. The Cubs should be happy the Phils are in the league or Wrigley's boys would definitely be "double mint, double good, double last," in the 1974 campaign. True, Chicago did junk that disgruntled pair of Ron Santo and Ferguson Jenkins on Unfortunate American League chumps. But the Cubs failed to capitalize on their close-out sale and will be knocking on the Phillies' dungeon door all season long...
...tempered Chicago Cubs Manager Leo ("Nice guys finish last") Durocher, now 66, may be mellowing. At any rate, his baseball team has performed disappointingly. And when his club is losing, there seems to be only one thing for a big-league owner to do. So Cubs Owner Philip K. Wrigley followed tradition; he fired Leo and hired a new manager: Whitey Lockman. Wrigley did try to soften the blow by blaming most of the team's failures on the players. "I don't think they've been earning their pay," he said. "They don't have...
...Totem brand sandwich bags contend that they hold more than Union Carbide's Glad bags and Colgate-Palmolive's Baggies. Bisodol commercials trumpet its stomach-soothing effectiveness over Turns and Rolaids. A Beech-Nut gum ad stresses that each pack contains eight sticks and displays a Wrigley pack, which has only seven. A plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much in its compact as Maverick, Toyota or Datsun. The idea is infectious. Lincoln Continental commercials refer only to "that other American luxury car," but the ad agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, is studying...