This year he has a bigger one. It is a half-inch larger in diameter and it looks somewhat like a lobster trap. . . . It has a thumb as long as Jimmy Durante s schnozzle. . . . Between the thumb and the rest of the mitt, Hank has something which looks like a fishnet. It is his own idea and three glove designers have quit at the place where Hank has his mitts manufactured because Hank insists on having them made that way.
Hank is that way.
He has ideas of his own, which is one of the reasons he is going to be a whale of a ballplayer. He never discards his own notions until completely convinced that someone else s are better. Hank approaches life from what might be called a skeptical and scientific attitude. He takes nothing for granted and he ll argue far into the night, if anyone is tough enough to hold out that long. Mr. Greenberg is something of a debunker, too.