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His arm may have lost most of its cunning and his legs may have gone back on him, but the name Grover Cleveland Alexander la still a magnet to baseball fans. He’s advertised to (pitch in every game, and he usually goes in for an inning or two. Last year the House of David team played 184 games and Alexander piehed in more than half of them. They've played about 115 this year, and he's been in 90 of them.“Don't the old soupbone hurt you? he was asked.“The strain of pitching night after night makes it get tired quick and I can't last more'n two or three innings, he said. “I think, though, if I got my legs in shape and had the proper rest I could go the route once a week.“How do you like this life?“This Is tougher than playing in the big leagues, he replied. “There everything’s arranged for you, you live first class and you don’t have to do nothing but play ball. The poor diamonds, the hostile crowds, the partial umpires, and bad accommodations and everything like that make this pretty tough.Denies 'Tipsy StoryEventually we got to talking about the time he came in to pitch in the 1926 world series with the bases filled, fanned Lazzeri, and pitched the Cardinals into the world's championship. It has been written and said that he was tipsy when he came into the box that day,“I wasn’t no more drunk than them sport writers who started that, Alex said; “I took my time and just mosled in because I knew the longer it took me to get to the box the more nervous a youngster like Lazzeri would be,Asked if he thought he would have lasted if he had never imbibed, Alex replied:“I don’t see how I could have. If I had my career to live over I would do just about the same. I used to lose four to five pounds pitching a game and I wasn't any big strong fellow. I had to get that weight back, and I used to have a few drinks to do it.Pat Moran, who -managed the Phillies when he broke In, he regards as the greatest manager he ever played under. He hasn’t much regard for Joe McCarthy, who fired him off the Cubs, but he believes Rogers Hornsby, recently fired by the Cubs, was a great leader.“I liked to play for Hornsby, said Alex. “He never said this or that to me. He just handed me a ball and said 'You’re pitching today,’ and he never tried to tell me how to pitch to a batter or second-guessed me.
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Berkeley Daily Gazette
Berkeley, California, US
Mon, Aug 22, 1932
Page 13
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