You can't win 'em all (1886, 1919, 1922)

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Sun Oct 19 01:11:53 UTC 2003


   Unless you're the cursed Yankees.  I had posted 1926.



(PROQUEST--WASHINGTON POST)
      NATIONALS SURPRISE TRIBE WITH NINTH-INNING VICTORY
       By J.V. FITZ GERALD..       The Washington Post  (1877-1954).       Washington, D.C.: Aug 16, 1919.                   p. 10 (1 page)
   Cleveland.  Aug. 15.--Cleveland can't win 'em all in the ninth.
(J. V. Fitz Gerald is the brother of John J. Fitz Gerald, of "Big Apple" fame--ed.)

      Nats Oppose Mackmen Today
       By FRANK H. YOUNG..       The Washington Post  (1877-1954).       Washington, D.C.: Jun 23, 1926.                   p. 13 (1 page):
   "WELL, we can't win 'em all," said Manager Bucky Haris yesterday after his team had lost its twelfth game in the last seventeen starts, thus showing that our boy leader still has a keen sense of humor.


(PROQUEST--LOS ANGELES TIMES)
      PEN POINTS
       The Staff.       Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Nov 1, 1922.                   p. II4 (1 page):
   Speaking of the local football games, we can't win 'em all.

      PEN POINTS
       The Staff.       Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Apr 5, 1923.                   p. II4 (1 page) :
   However, the season of the Pacific Coast League is young.  We can't win 'em all.


(PROQUEST--NEW YORK TIMES)
      DETROIT BADLY HANDLED
              New York Times  (1857-Current file).       New York, N.Y.: Jul 9, 1886.                   p. 2 (1 page):
   CHICAGO, July 8.--The Detroit Baseball Club may win two games out of its three with Chicago, but it can't win them all, for Chicago took one to-day.

      TIGERS BEAT YANKS AS 42,712 LOOK ON
       Special to The New York Times..       New York Times  (1857-Current file).       New York, N.Y.: Aug 4, 1924.                   p. 8 (1 page):
   DETROIT, Aug. 3.--The Yankees can't win them all, but they certainly can draw more people to a fenced-in area than any other traveling attraction listed under the head of amusement.

      YANKEES STOPPED BY ATHLETICS, 8-3
       By JAMES R. HARRISON.Special to The New York Times..       New York Times  (1857-Current file).       New York, N.Y.: May 4, 1926.                   p. 33 (1 page):
   PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 3.--You can't win them all, and the Yankees are no exception to this old time rule.



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