Word: wrigleys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last winter when P. K. Wrigley decided to organize a nonprofit professional softball league for the entertainment of war workers, he was adamant about three things: 1) his players would be girls; 2) they would be forbidden to wear slacks or skintight shorts; 3) they would have good old-fashioned baseball names...
sportswriters laughed at Wrigley's latest notion. Dignified P. K., they said, would have to hark back to his father's circus stunts to get a crowd to the Cubs' ball park...
...Wrigley got the moral support of two sound friends: Cub Attorney Paul V. Harper and Dodger Boss Branch Rickey...
Together they formed a trusteeship for their newborn enterprise, christened it the All-American Girls Softball League. To run its affairs, Wrigley hired the Cubs' former assistant general manager, curly-haired, canny Ken Sells. To round up talent, he released Jimmy Hamilton from his job as Cub scout. The design of a suit able uniform he put into the capable hands of famed Poster Artist Otis Shepard, who is responsible for famed Wrigley pixies, car cards, and glamorizing of Catalina Island...
Appleblossom Beauties. The uniform Artist Shepard designed was entirely satis factory to Boss Wrigley. As dignified as the field hockey costume of New Eng land's fashionable boarding schools, it still had the provocativeness of a Sonja Henie skating skirt. Scout Hamilton's job was satisfactory too. He had turned down several outstanding players because they were either too uncouth, too hardboiled, or too masculine...