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Craig Wood

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · May 23, 1947 · 14 min · 2,742 words

The transcript of “Craig Wood”, an episode of Bill Stern Sports Newsreel first broadcast May 23, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Bill Stern Sports Newsreel plays Bill Stern Sports Newsreel free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The old LVK-T-T-E, Colgate Presents Those Turned. With a Colgate-shaped-shaped-shaped-shaped sports newsrail. Bill's Turned The Colgate-shaped-shaped-view-man is on the air. Bill's Turned The Colgate-shaped-view-man with the sores. Grab the engine, fight the fuel, the can. You'll get a shade that's moving clean.

You'll be a Colgate-shaped-brice-less fan. Greeting Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Bill's Turn, bringing the 390th edition of the Colgate-shaped-shaped-shaped sports newsrail, featuring strange and fantastic stories. Some legends, some here say, but also interesting, that we'd like to pass them along to you.

Our guest tonight is the most famous jockey riding in American race tracks today, Eddie R. Carroll. But before we bring you the famous jockey, Eddie R. Carroll in person, here is real on profile of a ballplayer.

Let's go back through the years tonight. Back and remember one of the strangest stories of baseball. To start our story, we have to go back many years back to a bright sunny July morning at the Polo Grounds in New York City.

The New York Giants are practicing, watching them from the sidelines as their manager John McGraw. That is, John McGraw is watching his team until he sees a stranger slowly approaching. McGraw looks at the stranger, he's wearing a shabby suit, there's a battered hat pulled down over his eyes, the stranger walks up to John McGraw

and says, Mr. McGraw, I heard them say that sometimes you give a ball player a chance when nobody else will. Not Jack Scott. It was Jack Scott. Jack Scott wants one of the greatest pictures in baseball, but now, Now, just a washed up has been. His arm was dead. Nobody wanted when he was through.

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