"It was unfortunate, but maybe it makes a point," he told local sportswriters, to chuckles.

On a Thursday afternoon, what else do the local sportswriters have to write about?

It was no wonder a local sportswriter called him "Magic."

The local sportswriters were waxing ecstatic about the world's best women players about to play in their town.

This was misinterpreted by a local sportswriter as "Sweet Pea."

During an exceptionally good year in the 1930s a local sportswriter began to opine that they often "pounded" their opponents, the name stuck.

The managers and owners of every major coal region team and the local sportswriters were all invited.

When the local sportswriters ask Leavitt about his contract, he gives carefully bland responses.

He was so bad early in the season that local sportswriters were clamoring for his ouster.

He changed his name to Ray after a local sportswriter made a typo in a local newspaper.