team:Boston Braves
## Featured in This Morning’s Edition - Pirates Vanquish Tailenders 3-2 - Reflections of a Happy Day at Forbes Field - Champtown Chatter - The Post — Most News — Keep Post-Ed Pirates Vanquish Tailenders 3-2 and Ascend to Sixth Position Swat by Meadows Decides Own Game and Beats Braves Bespectacled Hurler
manager:Bill McKechnie
Champtown Chatter By Edward F. Balinger - Pittsburgh Post May 5, 1926 HARD TO UNDERSTAND. To cross the street a man will risk his neck, Although in no more hurry than a toad. And yet, we wonder why the blooming heck A poor old chicken runs across the road. HARD
team:Cincinnati Reds
PIRATES SMOTHER REDS UNDER 13-4 SCORE Glenn Wright Leads Bucco Attack With Two Homers Corsairs Bunch Blows for Eight Runs in Eighth Inning. MEADOWS EFFECTIVE By CHARLES J. DOYLE. Wright Stars at Bat. ’Twas no fault of Glenn that he didn’t have a couple of four-sackers on the day
Team:New York Giants
The Sporting News Roundup: April 29, 1926 Two weeks into the 1926 major league season, the baseball world was already being turned upside down. Favorites stumbled, contenders emerged, and The Sporting News captured the early-season chaos from St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Boston and beyond. First Two Weeks Finds Major
author:Edward F. Ballinger
COOPER AND PIERCY ROUTED AS CHAMPS FIND BATTING EYE Moore Aggravates Old Injury and Is Replaced by Rhyne; Cuyler Leads Attack With Three Hits; Oldham Rushes to Meadows’ Relief as Cubs Threaten in Seventh. WRIGHT AND BARNHART STAY IN TO SHAKE OFF HITTING SLUMP By EDWARD F. BALINGER, Baseball Editor,
author:Edward F. Ballinger
By EDWARD F. BALINGER. ENCOURAGING. The Pirates awakened and wielded their sticks, They socked the old pill on its smeller; By flogging the Cubs to the tune of eight-six Our Champs have escaped from the cellar. CHICAGO, April 26.—After wringing the necks of the hard-boiled Cardinals, getting one tie
team:New York Yankees
YANKS AND GIANTS AHEAD AS SECOND WEEK’S PLAY ENDS Race This Year Recalls Memories of Pennant Chases of 1921-22-23. By FRANK GETTY, United News Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, April 25.—The big league pennant races are assuming an aspect reminiscent of the days of 1921-22-23, when both New York