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Title: 1938 Mirage - DePauw (De Pauw) University Yearbook
Description: copyright Greencastle, Indiana, 1937. 1937. Hardcover . Hardback, quarto, padded white and gold leatherette cover, titles & illustration in relief in a 3 inch gold band across the center of the spine and front cover, VG condition. Decorated end-papers (front: campus map & back: projected developement by 1950). Name in ink first blank page. Senior year of baseball team member Emil J. Bavasi. Known as Buzzie (Buzzy), E. J. Bavasi became General Manager of the Dodgers baseball organization, etc. etc. Another classmate was Fred Frick whose father was probably Ford Frick who had been a sports journalist in Colorado Springs, then New York, and who had become National League President (1935) and later Commissioner of Baseball (1951), was a friend of Babe Ruth, had helped bail teams out during the depression, was a force in breaking baseball's color barrier, helped negotiate early television contracts, etc. etc. The two youngsters' hometowns are given as Scarsdale and Bronxville, NY and they were vice-president and president of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Bavasi's hitting feats described in extra-inning loss to Indiana U. Very Good.

Keywords: Colleges & Universities Yearbooks

Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Robert W. Reiner Books
- Book number: 404