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WILLIAM BRAUCHERMm McGraw has retired. Uncle... x i «■ i • IRobbie has. been euchred out of the big leagues. Only Mack, of the Old Quaard. remains. At 70. he carries on. [ Re might have set a record for the American League—four pennants in a row . . . but his athletes softened on bira . ». . he saw it coming in the 1931 world series . . . before the first game was over. Mack, sitting gingerly on the edge of the bench, knew that his J team's morale was not there. jHe would rather have won that se- j ries than that Bok award he received • for having rendered the most out- j standing service to Philadelphia dux- ’lag the year . . . that ball club had I been a dream that began 17 years be- 1 lore when he wrecked his great team * * . and started building anew . . . this jyear he began to rebuild again . . . f sending A1 Simmons, Mule Haas and Jimmy Dykes to the White Sox ... I be is sirating out afresh, with no \ills Greatest Teamalways has been, a man to give to his own players . . . but he that Ty Cobb was the greatest layer who ever lived . , , and the st pitcher of them ail was Matty ind he had Waddell when the was at his best . . . and Plank Coombs and Bender and some fine' pitcher on. that “perfect*e he was asked to pick a team ! his own players to play an im1 ry contest for SI.000.000 . . . and i sam he picked had Harry Davis st base:, Eddie Collins at second,, j Barry at short and Frank Baker trd . . . AI Sirmons would be ft fielder ,. . . Mule .Haas in cen-. . Danny Murphy in right . . . ht it was hard for the man to : Rube Oldrktg out of there ...Bender and Cochrane Chief Bender would be the pitcher i that team, and Mickey Cochraneve catcher ... he liked Bender betas* the chief would train for an eqportant game like a fighter works store a championship bout. “When le day came. * said Mack. “Chief cuid be right, and he would be Helically unbeatable.When Mack disbanded that rrar-tlotis team in 1914 Jack Dempsey sts a youngster, riding the rods rough the west and grabbing bouts tank towns.. Babe Ruth was. a itxng man fresh from an industrial bool in Baltimore . . . the Gehrigs, roves, Lazzeris, Walbergs and Foxxeswre in grade school. Rogers Horns-r was yet unheard of . . . the girls ere wearing hobble skirts. Jess Wil-rd was on his Kansas farm. Gene sxstiey was a parochial school pupil Greenwich VUllage . . the tangom hot Muff.he was an outlaw with other rebels b . . . he was airst came into notice as a years ago . , as receiver for j Brookfield club ... in 1883^ V. ... ' 'rnght for Meriden. Hartford i as Washington team, of the j League bought him ... At \ he caught in 10 straight J hip games without a passed large pumpkins for those ;He has had some strange employes ‘ • . . Ru be Waddell was one of the j weirdest. One spring' Waddell ref us- j od to sign. Mack called him in. “Is It money?'' asked Connie. “You know v just gave you a raise and I don’t | think we can make it higher . . . i but Waddell replied. “No. it ain't the j money, .Mack. But before 1 sign you; got to put it in the contract that Sehreck (Waddell's battery and room- * matte) can't eat crackers in bed with
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Hope Star
Hope, Arkansas, US
Tue, Jan 31, 1933
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