Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-31
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VelOp tor few weeks to come. But hneS
didn't bother him much, and | finally had
to let him goa wonderful player too.
That was when l had team composed
of good ball players no matter what their
habits were. When l came to New York |
took anybody, so long as they could play
ball l considered their habits secondary.
Now, to my relief, no longer face such
situation.
7 CAME to New York on July Z, 1902, with
l the Giants joke club, hopelessly out of
the race At that time Andrew Friedman
was owner of the club. arrived from Bal
timore, where had played for years, and
after breakfast went straight to Friedman's
office.
MAY see list of players under con-
tract to the club?' l asked him.
He showed me a list with twenty-three
names on the payroll
"Have you pencile" 1 asked.
A little puzzled, he gave me one, and !
proceeded to scratch off names until had
reduced the list to twelve.
II can finish in last place with twelve
players just as easily as I can with twenty
three" 1 said. "By so doing you will save
fifteen thousand dollars in salary, and as
these men cost you only ten thousand dol
lars, you save five thousand net right off the
reel"
Naturally this appealed to him. l had
brought with me Mccain, Bresnahan, and
McGinnity from the Baltimore club. 1t
was the time of the war between the Nation
al and American Leagues, and it was case
of grabbing players at any cost. l was told
that l could spend as much as l wished.
Among other stars I purchased Delehanty,
Fielder Jones, and George Davis; but these
three players were awarded to other clubs
after peace was made between the warning
leagues. Still by trades and purchases I
secured enough men to let us finish in second
place in 1908, and in 1904 to win the pen
nant. In 1905 we won the worlds cham
pionship; but my team was composed of
older and unruly men.
Like most old players, they knew more
than did, and it came to pass where they
refused to take orders The result of this
was shown in 1906, when they went out on
their own hook, became more difficult to
boss, and tried to take things into their own
hands. They were all veterans. They were
men who helped me win championships, and
l hated to let go of them; but l saw that
they were slowing up knew should have
to let the old blood out and instil young
blood into the Giants The trouble was at
shortstop and first base. Dahlen and Nc
odilu WSlc SClIulS OIu. AZ Ildu Lev
lin, young man, just out of Georgetown
University. At second later came Doyle,
young recruit from Springfield. Let me di-
gress for a moment about Doyle.
In the first game Doyle, now captain of the
Giants, played with us He made about
ten errors saw him in the clubhouse after
ward, and he was packing all his belongings
into bag.
what are you doing?" 1 asked.
4Going back" he said tersely. Il guess
I don't belong here"
Then and there had a talk with Doyle,
and he stayed; although the New York
newspapers tried to run him out of baseball.
Today they cannot praise him too much.
PUT was worrying about the old, creaky
parts of mymachine. In the winter of 1907
let Bowerman, Brown, Ferguson, Dahlen,
and Mccain all go to Boston in return for
Bridwell, Tenney, and Needham. Bridwell
was young and fast. Tenney, the king of
first basemen in his time, was nearly all in.
But he would be valuable man to have
with a team of youngsters such as l was
going to build. He could teach them the
tricks of the game and steady them down.
Needham was an old and foxy catcher, good
for coaching young pitchers.
The New York newSpaDerS gave me