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officials1 details i so thatav fher1 eventsFrank Shellenhacklong -1;i ex Mivery k«| put upeeted toBeck nd holc-eet 4 inquartetmark: ile ands which cords inson; JoeDonalaheaverswith theHarvevquarterrecentlymark hf*go: Ncr-timb.v-hurdlinghis waklt;to cracktmetIowa's ave bet-in Classmile rec-xceeded;sprinterjination^ose timert ol theArnettper. whoecord o. 1 jumpsUiIf INBack in Majors After 19 Yearst.v o ; eaMissouiIowa S• mBY HARRY GRAYSONNEA Service Sports EditorpRANK SHEI.LENBACK is back in the majors as a coach aftei 19 years’ exile in the Pacific Coast League.Shellenback, who come to the St. Louis Browns with Fred Haney, was one of the great pitchersof the game.The ban on the spitball kept him on the golden slope.There was a 10-year stretch when Shellenback would have brought hi- AA owner $100,000 if Judge Landis had chosen to over-look a technicalityLeague campaign of 1920 started.In his moves to gain permission to pitch in the majors, Shellenback held that inasmuch as he had been sent a contract by the Sox in 1920. he was a registered spitball pitcher.He tried to get along without the spitter in his early Coast League days, but says he couldn't resist falling back on his mostformidable weapon when in trouble.Shellenback was a gawky kid when he came to the White Sox in the spring of 1917 after one year with the Los Angeles Coaster.-; under Frank Chance.• Tallrrthe Corwin twpSheltenbaek! won j26| games g in 1929 and ‘30. 27 in *31 26 in ’33.To wind the end of hisgpitc hing career he was made manager ofthe Hollywood club . .continued in that capacity when the franchise was switched to San Diego. In four years as he| won |a pennant and ffmishedf.t'['HE Sex pitching staff . , withEddie Ci.-utte and 10 lt;1 F .bersuperb cheate; . . wa ■ pitbali-minded. C.cotte took -f*ung Shellenback in hand and quwkiy hada p i 1 o t1 econd . . . d \ eloped dlt; IIdBobby Doerr, George Myatt, Gene Desautels, Ted Williams and Man-u el ISalvo|| Connie|pack made the last great effort to have Shellenback declared eligible in.. the AmmicanLeague in 1929, but Commissioner Landis ruled thatjjho had noffuris-diction pr|b§ to 192j||and tl|e spit-ball went out in the winter ofIt^HET LENF. \lt; Vthe mc; e-'iscaKJtonil* m t dI € * 1 * iuUitrho ding ou1*'*a o e‘ For three years I tried to gefCicbltelto Jhow§me \vhat|he didto his shine ball/’ says Shellenback, ‘‘but that was a set ret oldKnuek nc\ er revealedff| He’dt a r t t o |s ho w m c | * V lt;u ge t ^ so medirt3 heVI explain, And rub it inwli.Then! vou i uh sthe balfkon♦your pantsjleg jlike this. | Then—’bull? that 1 wak|a far as he|everWhat f urpi i - - Shellenback about current American League pitchers is their lack of originality.“T1 lt;re mu * be romo way to«,ton P lt;c )\ tie. hlt; . miles. YouTayloi1I m layBlairWravCipra'Ii:Emerso Heaton CarlsorTallin aDumnv8 *Handichim breaking sputters ail over the Total iJl iDahn ma tc h fJ Har Bray L KelKrackiDahnHandicTotal iWalk pi Fleisch
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Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa, US
Wed, May 03, 1939
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