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The Mel Ott Little League began in 1959, named for Ott soon after his death. Ott's name frequently appears in crossword puzzles, on account of its letter combination and brevity. [24] Ott is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash, first published in Sport magazine in January 1949: O is for Ott Of the restless right foot.
Polo Grounds (III) (left) and Manhattan Field (aka Polo Grounds II) (right) c.1900. Polo Grounds III was the stadium that made the name nationally famous. Built in 1890, it initially had a completely open outfield bounded by just the outer fence, but bleachers were gradually added. By the early 1900s, some bleacher sections encroached on the ...
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
The "Polo Grounds" bat was matched to a 1921 photo that showed Babe Ruth swinging it during a game. A Babe Ruth bat from 1921 sold for a record $1.85 million at auction [Video] Skip to main content
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
The Ranelagh Club was a polo club located at Barn Elms in south west London, England. It was founded in 1878 [1] as a split-off from the Hurlingham Club and by 1894 was the largest polo club in the world. The club had approximately 3000 members in 1913, including many prominent military figures and members of different royal families.
It does seem to have the potential for an old Polo Grounds feel. The New York Giants’ old ballpark in Harlem was shaped like an oval, with foul lines that were 277 feet down left field and 258 ...
The Giants had won the regular season game 14–0 at the Polo Grounds seven weeks earlier on October 27, [4] but the Bears were seven to ten point favorites. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This was the fifth and final NFL Championship game played at the Polo Grounds and the fourth of six meetings between the Bears and Giants in the title game.