Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Cardinal teams won more than 100 games.
Hornsby. Born April 27, ¡896, Winters, Texas; died January 5, ¡963, Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis Cardinals, May 30, ... ¡952–September ¡7, ¡953 Rogers Hornsby was a man cut out of the Ty Cobb mold—a great hitter with a proud, arrogant, ...
On December 21, 1926, Sam Breadon in e›ect fired Hornsby by trading him to the New York Giants for infielder Frankie Frisch and a pitcher named Jimmy Ring. This was an outgrowth of a feud between Breadon and Hornsby over the exhibition ...
Hornsby, the St. Louis second baseman who hit .424, still the highest batting average achieved in modern major league baseball. The MVP is selected by writers. Dazzy was a darling of the sportswriters with his quick wit and his penchant ...
In an eight-day period, Hornsby's Cardinals had acquired Southworth, a veteran outfielder looking to redeem himself with a new team, and Alexander, who needed to redeem himself if he was to stay in baseball. Southworth sized up his new ...
"My manager at Oklahoma City was Rogers Hornsby. Now there was a no-nonsense guy. The thing I remember most about Hornsby is that he used to take batting practice with us. He could still get in there and stroke the ball, I'll tell you ...
Cuyler went on to have several great years with the Chicago Cubs.8 On January 10, 1928, the New York Giants traded temperamental second baseman Rogers Hornsby to the Boston Braves. Hornsby, who hit .424 just four years earlier, ...
Grimm made a phone call and enlisted the help of the National League's greatest hitter, Rogers Hornsby, to work with Nichol- son. Grimm determined that Nicholson had developed a hitch in his swing that had thrown o› his timing.
Billy Southworth: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Manager and Ballplayer (2013) Showdown at the 1964 Democratic Convention: Lyndon Johnson, Mississippi and Civil Rights (2012) The Iowa Caucuses: First Tests of Presidential Aspiration, ...
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When in 1911 Phillies pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander set the National League record for wins by a rookie (28), it was a sign of things to come.
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This is a biography of a man who "crowded the plate" in all aspects of his baseball life.
257 Purcell / Queen / Quilici / Quinn William Aloysius Purcell Born March ¡6, ¡884, Paterson, New Jersey; date of death unknown; Philadelphia Phillies, ¡883 William “Blondie” Purcell is better remembered for the color of his hair than ...
Barry Goldwater and the Beginning of the Conservative Movement John C. Skipper. libRARy of CongRess CATAloguing-in-publiCATion dATA names: skipper, ... subjects: lCsh: goldwater, barry m. (barry morris), 1909–1998. | goldwater, barry m.
In January 1936, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson became charter members in an exclusive club: the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stood in for his historic first at-bat in the major leagues. The opposing pitcher? Johnny Sain of the Boston Braves. Frankie Baumholtz was the...
Charles "Dazzy" Vance became known as the strike out king after leading the National League in strikeouts seven years in a row.
By examining the motivations of those involved, this work explores how American politics and the civil rights movement clashed at the convention, how the federal government felt compelled to spy on its own people for purely political ...