by John Holway
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1 Only a single National League operated 1933–36.
2 No play-offs were held 1936 and 1938; divided season produced two champions.
3 Homestead finished first in 1939 but lost play-off to third-place Baltimore.
4 Parts of this interview are courtesy of the Oral History Program of the University of Missouri.
5 Drake won his game 6–2 on a six-hitter. He hit a home run to help his own cause.
6 Bell was elected to Cooperstown in 1974.
7 Page was with the New York Black Yankees then.
8 Actually the first game ended in a 3–3 tie. Foster did win two other games, including the final clincher, 1–0.
9 This is the story as Larry told it to me. However, further research has established that Cobb played only one year in Cuba, in 1910.
10 “Wells’ teammate and friend, big Mule Suttles also hit 27 the previous year to tie him. It was a short fence, to be sure, but there is some dispute whether balls pulled over the shortest part were ground-rule doubles.
11 Greene hit .444 in the series with one homer; Josh hit .154 with no homers. The Monarchs won in four straight games.
12 Robinson was named manager of the Cleveland Indians in 1974.
13 And later played basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters.