Dizzy Dean Trade May Break Cubs Jinx and Boost Box Office
George A. Barclay reviews the Dean trade to the Chicago Cubs for 185000 cash plus Curt Davis Clyde gun and George Stain, arguing the move could end a series of poor Cubs trades. The piece weighs Dean’s potential on-field impact against past misfires like the Klein and Warneke deals and questions Rickey and Breadon’s caution.
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George A. Barclay
Dizzy Dean
Dean
Cubs
Curt Davis
Clyde Gun
George Stainback
Dizzy
Phil K. Wrigley
Babe Ruth
Branch Rickey
Sam Breadon
Cub
Tex Carleton
Piitcher
St. Louis
Bud Tinning
Dick Ward
Chuck Klein
Phillies
National League
Fabian Kowalik
Cash
Ethan Allen
Allen
Camilli Hurst swap fuels Cubs optimism despite losses
The Dolph Camilli Don Hurst trade and Babe Herman move unsettle Cubs. Hurst left early, Camilli strengthens power. Another deal sent Woody English and Roy Henshaw to Brooklyn for Linus Frey, who underperformed this spring. Still, Dean’s purchase may pay off through gate receipts if he shines.
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Dolph Camilli
Don Hurst
Cubs
Hurst
Camilli
Babe Herman
Cincinnati
Jersey City
Woody English
Roy Henshaw
Brooklyn
Linus Frey
Frey
English
Dean
Baseball origins and early rules from Cooperstown to Knickerbockers
A retrospective from the Western Newspaper Union recalls baseball roots centering on Cooperstown where Col Abner Doubleday laid out the first diamond. It notes early terms One Old Cat and Rounders, the Knickerbockers as pioneers with blue trousers, and rules evolving before Civil War games and 21-run scores.
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Juse
Col
Abner Doubleday
Cooperstown
N. C
Doubleday
Knickerbockers
New York City
Gothams
al. J. Reach
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Cincinnati Reds
George Wright
Babe Ruth
Sammy Byrd
Walter Hagen
Lawson Little
Bobby Jones
Tommy Armour
Craig Wood
Eddie Loos
Ellsworth Vines
Fred Perry
Johnny Weismuller
Mush ‘March
Blackhawk
Jim Crowley
Fordham
Glenn Cunningham
Don Lash
Johnny Woodruff
Joe MacCluskey
Birger Ruud
Babe Didriksen
Eleanor Sears
Mary K. Browne
Glenna Collett Ware
Western Newspaper Union
Adventure of the sea cook Nixon inspires bold rescue tale
Floyd Gibbons recounts H. K. Nixon of Elizabeth New Jersey and the barkentine St James renamed the Haunted Hulk. After wreck, Nixon saves an islander Lindsay using a rough neck realignment, earning hero status as shipwrecked crew reach Pitcairn and later Sydney. The tale blends maritime peril, survival, and quick thinking with a seasoned sea captain and a loyal ship’s cat.
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Ello
H. K. Nixon
Elizabeth
N. J
Joseph Conrad
Jiming
Sea Cook
Nixon
Nix
Barkentine
St. James
San Francisco
Martin Anderson
Seattle
Delagoa Bay
South Africa
Cook Nixon
Straits
San Juan de Fuca
Pacific
Onena
South Pacific
Pitcairn
Bounty Bay
Cock Nixon
Skipper Anderson
Hansen
Lindsay
Islander
Bounty
Fort Augusta
Sydney
Australia
WNN
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David Harum
Charley Grimm
Chicago
St. Louis Browns
Davis
Leu Warneke
Cardinals
Roy Parmelee
Ripins
Parmelee
Neapolis
Collins
Charlie Grimm
Jerome
Dizzy”’ Dean
Baseball Centenary
Moody
Wimbledon
Helen Wills Moody
Helen
Jane
Helen Jacobs
Helen Marble
Jadwiga Jedrejowska
Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
Neptune
Island of
Oncno
Columbia
Western Hemisphere
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Santo Domingo
Iglesia de San Nicolas
Columbus
America
West Point
United States Military Academy
Continental Congress
BY Lemuel F. Parton
New York
Saturnio Cedillo
San Luis Potosi
Cardenas
Cedillo
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Constitutional Commonwealth
National Revolutionary Party Committee
Senors
Cedille
Morris Fishbein
James H. Means
American College of Physicians
Fishbein
Hygeia
Rush Medical School
State of
Indiana
Journal of Medicine
Anna Mantel
Consolidated News
WN Service
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
Ier
Photography
ROLLS
Éoin
Repriots Fe
Ai Northwest Photo Service
Depikk
Orth Cakote
John
Williama Blig
Lydia E. Pinkham
Natura
Lydia E. Finkham
Pinkham
Pinedam
Seneca
Wnu
Denton
Hera
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