M-O Winner May Play Kitty Loop Champion (1949)

Posted on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 @ 11:36 pm
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"I'm tired of having people send me newspaper clippings telling me that the Kitty is better than the Valley," Mondino told the league meeting. "If they're good, let them prove it."

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Danville, Ill., Now Claims to Be First to Top ’51 Gate (1952)

Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2009 @ 9:50 am
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League records last season showed the Dans drew 24,775, but when Lyons took over this year, he and a government tax expert checked the figures and found the gate actually was only 14,487 paid. The Dans surpassed that figure on June 8 this season with 15, 979. After 45 games, the total for the current campaign was 55,424--an average of 1,232.

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Link-less (1964)

Posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 @ 12:08 am
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When asked why Hutchinson didn't drive him down after they gassed up, Curtis said, "He had a date for Sunday night."

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Specs (~1946)

Posted on Friday, February 6, 2009 @ 8:44 pm
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The Umpire Cards--really they were repurposed Player Cards--were maintained by The Sporting News from around 1910 to about 1985. All the umpire cards are available on Retrosheet; the TSN player cards are not available anywhere.

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Next Time, Go by Thumb (1968)

Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 12:01 am
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Catcher Carl[ton] Fisk of the Waterloo (Midwest) Hawks missed the team bus for a trip to Appleton, Wis., so he decided to hitch-hike.

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