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  "description": "Babe Ruth belts two more home runs in a Yankees slugfest with Cleveland while the Giants crush the Cardinals behind Virgil Barnes and lose Travis Jackson to another painful knee injury.",
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    "Babe Ruth",
    "Earle Combs",
    "Charlie Jamieson",
    "George Burns",
    "Ernie Padgett",
    "Tony Lazzeri",
    "Joe Sewell",
    "Bob Meusel",
    "Waite Hoyt",
    "Sam Jones",
    "Joe Shaute",
    "Lou Gehrig",
    "Pat Collins",
    "Homer Summa",
    "Luke Sewell",
    "Miller Huggins",
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    "Virgil Barnes",
    "Travis Jackson",
    "John McGraw",
    "George Kelly",
    "Alfred “Al” Moore",
    "Bill Terry",
    "Freddie Lindstrom",
    "Irish Meusel",
    "Billy Southworth",
    "Frankie Frisch",
    "Joe McCarthy",
    "Jess Barnes",
    "Wilbert Robinson",
    "Bob McGraw",
    "Burleigh Grimes",
    "Dazzy Vance",
    "Jesse Petty",
    "Rabbit Maranville",
    "Chick Fewster",
    "Babe Herman",
    "Joe Tinker",
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  "textContent": "All Content is from the NY Daily News, Friday, May 14, 1926\n\n## Table of Contents\n\n  * **New York and National League Coverage**\n    * SULTAN OF SWAT SINGS SAGA OF SOCK\n    * GIANTS WALLOP CARDS; JACKSON CRIPPLED AGAIN\n    * BARNES, M’GRAW LIKELY TO FACE PIRATES TODAY\n  * **Scores and Scoreboards**\n    * Combination Major League Scores\n    * BASEBALL RESULTS\n  * **Off the Field**\n    * TINKER TAKES A BRIDE\n\n\n\n## SULTAN OF SWAT SINGS SAGA OF SOCK\n\n### GREAT BAMBINO BANGS OUT TWO MORE HOMERS\n\n### And Yanks Beat Injuns, 13 to 9.\n\n_By PAUL GALLICO._\n\nSing a song of murderous sluggers; sing a song of faltering pitchers; sing a song of the whizzing ball as it streaks o’er the far green outfield, but above all, sing a song of Babe Ruth, a lilting song, a cheery song, a song from a full heart and a full throat. Wotta man; wotta man!\n\n“Wotta Man!” — A smiling Babe Ruth appears beside Paul Gallico’s colorful account of the Bambino’s two-homer performance against Cleveland in May 1926.\n\nThe Yankees took the second game from the Indians yesterday, 13 to 9, and all that poor old has-been in right field did was blast home runs No. 9 and 10 into the right field stands, drive in or score a total of seven of the Yankee runs and contribute a couple of fine running catches. O sing, yo ho; Ruth is great; O sing heave ho; ain’t he the cats?\n\nEarle Combs, Yankees center fielder, is shown in a 1926 newspaper portrait after contributing an inside-the-park home run during New York’s high-scoring win over Cleveland.\n\n### Sincere Swatting.\n\nOf the twenty-seven hits that popped and bopped and smacked and crackled all afternoon, eleven of them went for extra bases. Then sing, whoopee! m’lads, for the hard-hit ball. Earle Combs got a home run inside the grounds in the eighth, preceding Ruth’s second smash, and Charlie Jamieson got one of the same kind in the sixth.\n\nGeorge Burns, Ernie Padgett and Tony Lazzeri got triples, while Joe Sewell, the Bambino, Bob Meusel and Karr all got doubles. Then sing softly, boys; softly, my bully boys; for the poor, poor pitchers.\n\nThere were four of them all told. Waite Hoyt started for the Yanks, and Jamieson’s homer closed out his account. Sam Jones finished splendidly. Joe Shaute opened for the Injuns, and Hoyt’s single in the fourth finished him. Karr, known to his friends as Kiddie, went in. Not so good.\n\nTony Lazzeri and Sam Jones are featured in a 1926 newspaper portrait after the Yankees’ slugfest victory over Cleveland, with Lazzeri starring at the plate and Jones finishing strong in relief.\n\nThe Yanks scored their four runs in the fourth on a single by Combs, a pass to Lou Gehrig, doubles by Ruth and Meusel and a triple by Lazzeri. In the first inning, Gehrig singled and Ruth, with two strikes on him, took a grooved ball into the right field stand on a full swing.\n\n### O, Sing Anything!\n\nThe Injuns wouldn’t say uncle until the Yanks went out and won the game in the seventh on a pass to Ruth, singles by Meusel and Lazzeri, Karr’s error and two handsome sacrifices on the part of Mike Gazella and Pat Collins. The two homers in the eighth made it authentic and the Injuns curled up.\n\nO, sing for the bravely smacking Yanks. Raise high your voices for Ruth.\n\n* * *\n\nJ. Sewell’s double, Burns’s triple and Homer Summa’s sacrifice caused the Injuns to tie the score in the second. In the sixth, they made it eight all when Luke Sewell singled, Karr doubled and Jamieson hit his long home run.\n\n* * *\n\nYou should have seen the beefing in the seventh when Miller Huggins and Collins opined that Karr had balked and Umpire Bill Dinneen allowed he hadn’t.\n\n* * *\n\nAnd maybe you don’t think Lazzeri’s three hits and handsome fielding helped.\n\n* * *\n\nHist! Jones got his little single.\n\n* * *\n\nYes, girls, the Indians again today, Bob Shawkey against Hal Levsen and Buckeye. Come and bring your knitting.\n\n“Bammed!” — Box score from the Yankees’ 13–9 victory over Cleveland on May 1926, highlighted by Babe Ruth’s two home runs and a 16-hit New York attack.\n\n* * *\n\n## GIANTS WALLOP CARDS; JACKSON CRIPPLED AGAIN\n\n\nBy WILL MURPHY.\n\nSt. Louis, Mo., May 13.—The Giants have started to right their wrongs. Before quitting St. Louis tonight, they left the Cardinals something to remember them by—a 12 to 1 trimming. This gaudy triumph gives our side an even break on the four-game series. Business is looking up.\n\n****Travis Jackson**** and ****Bill Southworth**** , the crippled shortstop and the home run hitter.\n\nVirgil Barnes pitched gorgeous ball and held the Cards to six hits, while the New York delegation was abusing four St. Louis pitchers for a total of eighteen safe socks.\n\n### Jackson Injured.\n\nIt may be that this day’s variegated conquest will cost the Giants sorely in the end. For Travis Jackson hurt himself again in a manner that makes his early return to the game extremely doubtful.\n\nThe brilliant young shortstop twisted his bad right knee, which kept him idle much of last season, in sliding home in the fifth inning. He was carried off the field, and was in great pain for several minutes.\n\n### Curious Plays.\n\nThis was but one example of the curious base running which blossomed at intervals all afternoon. Some of it came out all right.\n\nThe winning punch was shown by Mister John McGraw’s young men quite early in the battling. George Kelly and Alfred “Al” Moore singled in the second and Jackson was safe on an error. Bill Terry batted for Hartley with the bases full, and swept them clean with a triple to deep center. Freddie Lindstrom’s hit presently fetched Bill home and the Giants had more runs than they were going to need.\n\nThe drum fire was resumed ever so often. After rough outbreaks in the fifth and sixth, Irish Meusel lifted a homer into the right field stand in the seventh, nobody being on.\n\nBilly Southworth lined another into the same convenient spot in the ninth with Frankie Frisch aboard.\n\nLindstrom, Southworth, Meusel and Moore each collected three hits.\n\nTomorrow the Giants start a five-game series in Cincinnati, where better things are hoped for. There also may be a player deal or two completed there.\n\n“Another” — Box score from the New York Giants’ 12–1 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals in May 1926, powered by Irish Meusel, Billy Southworth, and pitcher Virgil Barnes\n\n* * *\n\n## BARNES, M’GRAW LIKELY TO FACE PIRATES TODAY\n\n\nBy JACK FARRELL.\n\nChicago, May 13.—While your Robins were preparing to feather their lofty perch with another victory over the well tamed Cubs, a thunderstorm broke shortly before 2 o’clock today and rained out the fourth and final game of a series which has been quite helpful to the Flatbush crew, but equally disastrous to Joe McCarthy’s athletes, who only a few days back had visions of superceding the Robins as pacemakers in the Heydler circuit.\n\n****Jess Barnes**** , who was all primed to pitch the final game for the Robins.\n\nThe weather here since the Robins’ arrival on Monday has been anything but favorable, with high cold winds, which penetrated to the marrow, playing havoc with the attendance, with the result that the so-called crucial series which figured to draw on an average from 10,000 to 15,000 daily didn’t attract more than an average aggregate of 6,000 for all three games played to date.\n\nJess Barnes, who was all primed to pitch the final game for the Robins, will undoubtedly start the opening game of a five-ply series with those pillaging Pirates in smoky town tomorrow. But there is a feeling that your Uncle Wilbert Robinson may make a last minute pick and toss Bob McGraw into the breach. Master McGraw has won four games handrunning and stands out as the only unbeaten pill heaver in the Heydler circuit.\n\n****Rabbit Maranville**** and ****Johnny Butler**** , two men in whom Robbie sees great defense.\n\nRobbie calculates that if he can get the jump on the world champions the business of taking a firmer hold on the top rung will be a mere formality.\n\n### He’s Optimistic.\n\nDevelopments of the last few days caused Robbie to wax enthusiastic over the impending series with the Buccaneers, as he buried his bulky frame in one of the overstuffed divans in the lobby of the Robins’ temporary habitat today.\n\n****Robert Emmet McGraw**** , Master McGraw has won four games handrunning and stands out as the only unbeaten pill heaver in the Heydler circuit\n\n“Can’t see why we won’t take every game of the series,” ventured the optimistic Robin boss. “Last year we gave those Pirates a stiff fight with a half baked pitching staff and an undependable infield.\n\n“If I pitch Barnes in the opener and they beat him, they will have to get by McGraw, Burleigh Grimes, Dazzy Vance, Jesse Petty and Tommy McWeeney in order to win the series. This may be possible, but, judging by the way my pitchers have been going, hardly probable.\n\n### Likes Infield.\n\n“As for my infield, I look to Rabbit Maranville, Jimmy Butler, Chick Fewster and Babe Herman to show the Pittsburghs what a smooth functioning secondary line of defense looks like.”\n\nNo use in talking, but that infield has been a revelation. It has negotiated nine double killings in the last seven games. Rabbit Maranville, who has been behaving himself like a Sunday school pupil, has been the pivot in most of these game savers. What’s more, the Rabbit has injected a great deal of pep into the Robin lineup, something heretofore unheard of.\n\n* * *\n\n## Combination Major League Scores\n\n* * *\n\n## BASEBALL RESULTS\n\n“Baseball Results” scoreboard roundup from May 1926 featuring the Yankees’ 13–9 win over Cleveland, the Giants’ 12–1 rout of the Cardinals, and league scores from around the majors.\n\n* * *\n\n## TINKER TAKES A BRIDE\n\nJoe Tinker, famed Cubs shortstop and member of baseball’s legendary Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance trio, poses with his new bride in a 1926 newspaper photograph.\n\n**JOE TINKER AND HIS BRIDE.** —Joe Tinker, former manager of the Cincinnati Reds, selected that fair Ohio city in which to be married. Tinker was wed to Mrs. Mary Ross Edington of Orlando, Fla., which, by the way, is now home of the erstwhile manager also. Following a honeymoon of several weeks, in which New York is on the itinerary, the couple will settle in Florida.\n\n1926 Hecht Bros., 53-55-57 West 14th St, NYC, advertisement promoting bicycles on installment plans, featuring boys and girls riding bikes with “$1 Down and Weekly” financing offers.",
  "title": "Babe Ruth Roars and Giants Crush Cardinals — New York Daily News Baseball Coverage, May 14, 1926",
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