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player was the greatest, but Ruth • a™ traveling, uie joo wiui iwwi.was one of the outstanding indi-1 ngs was perfectviduals to play the game,;* Oscar j. I used to travel in a stationrecalled. He was 29 then and spent a lot of time working withwagon all over the country, he. said, making one-night stands'us younger players. with each ball club to sell themOscpr, one of eight Yankee ! equipment There were over 50 pitchers that year, didn’t get to j leagues then, compared with 18 play in the series. In fact he didn’t] today. s° 1 was driving 30.000 to get to pitch much that whole sea- 40.000 miles a year.” son. j Oscar’s traveling partner on'Hiat was a great ball club. he | many of those trips' was Harry: said, and I didn't get taplay a lot: Latina, who died earlier this year]with all the talented pitchers ofri i at age 84. Latina played a fe\y f0rfu)l. years in the minors before joining jthe staff. Pitchers jilayed fu/1 j years in the minors before joining Bt games then. There was no such Rn wl i ngs. and earned the one thing as a relief pitcher. ! nickname '’Glove Doctor for the; OgCJOscar never got a crack at an- innovations he pioneered in the! begi other world series, not even in development of basehall gloves. His 1927. wHen the Yankees won it a „ Improved GIove9 ; and second time. In 1925. he left New: v u;sYork and joined an American As- t Early gloves never had laced.! , sociation Club in St Paul. Minn., heels like the gloves today. Oscar,pointed out. Everything was . sewn. Harry won quite a reputa-l . . tion because he would splice down the heel or fingers, add or] remove padding to meet each asmany cities, including Phi ladel- ; player’s needs. 1 believe I was the phia. Montreal. Baltimore, and one to .call him the Glove i seas Cincinnati. Dpctor. ! coui■ w ‘.‘In those.days, the leather . VeaiTraveling Wa^Rough us^d to make gloves was softer. jmu. They talk about/how tough and there were fewer models • Bas*hapwhere he had his better years, playing first base and hitting up around .340 .350.' Through the thirties. Oscar played with a number of clubs intraveling is in jets. he grinned, available. so\ custom-ritting was 'We traveled by train in those common. Marty Marion, whodays, in old wooden sleepers with Rawlings named its 'Mr. Short-no a ir-conditioning, just a fan at stop* glove after, liked a firm glovethe end of the car. The young and used to go through three a players always got the top bunk, sen son. Going, back even further, and we’d wake up covered with Charlie Dressen, when he played soot in the morning. . with Cincinnati, use$i to put buck-Oscar especially remembers the shot in the fingers so his glove mor grueling road trips he made when wouldn’t bend back when he went OsciObaslt;Teleintehig)andtion
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Williamsport Sunday Grit National Edition
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Oct 12, 1980
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