The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-31
SEALS LINEUP FOR
COMING SEASON
LOOKS GOOD
Manager Long Figures on
Strengthening His Team With
Big League Players

From the present outlook the play
ers that will represent the San Fran
cisco team of the Pacific Coast league
during the coming season will prove a
more formidable aggregation of dia-
mond artists than the squad of men
that wore the local colors in the PEN
nant race of 1908.
If all signs do not fail the Seals of
1909 should finish in a better position
in the race than last years team, which
came in a bang up third. While the
team has not disintegrated to any
great extent the additional players
which Manager. Danny Long has an OPP
ton on should materially help to
strengthen the weak spots which ex-
listed in the team last year. The new
men are of an unknown quantity as
far as the fans here are concerned.
Several of them come from leagues
which are not credited with having as
much class as the Coast league, but
the men are of the promising kind
young and ambitious to make their
mark in the baseball world, and they
! are coming to the front All OF them
made excellent records with their
respective clubs last season and they
| give much promise.
Long expects to get three players
from Charley Comiskey of the White
Sox team and Connie Mack of the Phil
give him another good man.
1t is here that Long will be likely to
lsecure a star or two Comlskey mas
about 80 players and he VIII weed
tout number of them before the sea-
son commences Tt would be foolish to
believe that he will hand over three OF
| his star players to Long, but IN select
ling men for team manager ire
otiently makes mistakes and let's star
get away from MIN.
Comiskey has drafted many young
=, irrf1 p mr.
Show up to the standard in the train
| ing and practice games, and some OF
these will go to Long. 1t frequently
happens that young one does not get
! into his stride at the first or the sea-
son-sometimes owing to q lack of con
| hdence, and naturally the manager
thinks he has picked up bloomer and
| lets him 60
! in the big league when manager
| drops a man because he does not deliver
| the goods right off the jump, and an
other team picks him up and ne turns
/ case of Orvie Overall, whom Cincfn-
natl figured Fob and let him go to the
/ Chicago Cubs and he afterWard turned
/ out to be one of the greatest pitchers IN
In the pitching department the Seals
| look to be fairly strong. With the ex-
ception of Easily. who will surely join
1.-The staff, the other members Of the
firing line are we'll known. Easily
managed the McKeesport team last sea-
| son and he also played with the Wash
! ington team of the American league
| He comes we'll recommended and may
| prove a strong addition to the pitching
All Joe Corbett has to do is to live
lid to his reputation and the Seals
| win be contenders. Whether the ex-
! Oriole twirIer Is as good as ever is a
matter of conjecture. He has been
practically out of the game for four
/ years owing to his difficulty with Han
/ ion of the Brooklyn team, who kept
! him on the ground, as Joe did not care
! to go to Brooklyn. Joe has been work
1 ing hard for many months in order to
get into shape, and there is no reason
] why he should not get back to his old
| form, as he is still in the prime OF
/ life.
Browning pitched the latter part OF
/ last season for the Seals and made a
! good showing. Long counts on him to
! be one of the leading pitchers of the
league this season. Berger's and Jones
work in the box last season was very
ordinary. The latter, however, seemed
to have a lot of hard luck and things
may break better for him this year
4 a place hard to fill. Shortstops OF
| Zeider's caliber are not found on the
! bushes. and Mundorff, Longs new man
can hardly be expected to keep VI
Zeider's pace. However. 1t would not
/ be fair to criticise a man until he is
/ given a chance, and he will be some
/ what at q disadvantage, as the fans
will expect so much of him right of
l the lump