Over the next twelve months, he visited a number of cities in Ohio and Indiana soliciting the best offer to relocate the team. Attendance in Grand Rapids decreased further in 1899—while Torreyson’s club had hovered near .500 throughout the 1898 season, they were wire-to-wire doormats, m...
Riggs steps back and adopts a neutral fighting stance. The others begin to circle. The DOG BARKS. Riggs turns to the dog, but his eyes never leave his grinning attackers. RIGGS (to the collie) What's that ... ? You want me to take the knife away... and break his elbow... ?
THE CITY - "THE THROAT" - DAWN 30 * In live action, not on the monitor, WEARY TROOPS, sloppily uniformed, guard four rows of electrified, barbed-wire FENCING. DEAD THINGS cluster by the DOZENS outside the barricades. CORPSES hang all along the stretch, suspended on the barbs. MILITARY ...
“The nickname is perhaps misleading. You look for a dour fellow of wicked aspect—a piratical-appearing bloke with perhaps a cutlass between his teeth. Instead, you see a well-dressed, quiet man, deep in his fifties, with kind eyes wrinkled by smiles…Well, twenty years back the man from...
So incensed was Jones at the umpire, whomThe St. Louis Starcalled, “a good plumber’s helper but an inferior umpire,” that he wrote an open letter to fans that appeared in St. Louis papers. He told fans who were present, “The good of the game demands,” that they wire league ...