The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-09-29
Force of Personality Makes
Him Popular With Players;
Also Possesses Brains
NEW YORK ALLOWED
HIM TO LEAVE TEAM
Then He Repaid by Taking
Pennant Away From His
Benefactor

ia known as the Miracle Man," and
the following story OF his career IS
given in the advance report OF the
worlds series by The United Press
They are calling Pat Moran the
miracle Man" Of 1919. The man
who piloted the Reds into the t1rst
worlds series in so years is hailed
nv Cincinnati fans as the greatest
man in baseball. There are no SUI
perlatives fitting enough to express
the regard of the Ohio bugs Tor that
Fitchburg prodigy, who gave the
river town what it had been yearn-
ing for so years-a national league
pennant.
It was a miracle the red-faced,
smiling boss Of the Hermann CLUB
pulled in landing at the top of the
ladder a team that was doubtful as
a first division aggregation early in
the season. George Stallings feat
in 1914 when he showed the Braves
out of the cellar in the middle or
July and ran them headlong to the
pennant is the only performance that
compares with Moran's miracle.
Beats StaHings.
Stallings, however, has but one
miracle to his credit. Moran out
shines him for he has pair that
mark him as the "supermiracle' per-
former, for he pulled similar feat
in 1915 when he ran the Phlll1es, an
outsider in the race, to pennant.
It was the sheer force of person
atty, which has made him the most
popular man in baseball, mixed with
a. head full of baseball brains that
spelled his success with the Reds.
Pat had the fans with him all sea-
son. not only in Cincinnati, but in
every stop of the National league and
every flag station of the country.
They wanted to see him win to re-
move the black eye which We Phila-
delphia owners gave him by tying the
can to him after he had given them
a pennant.
Fans Didn't He'-.
But the applaud1ng galleries anu
the bowling stands of the ball yards
didn't win for him. What he did is
more or less uncertain.
There has been good material on
the Red clubs Of the past and they
have been managed by the best base
ball brains Of the game, including
Griffith, Herzog, Mathewson ct al.
But they all failed. The wall was
universal that there were too many
managers on the board Of directors.
The complaint was made that the
owners wouldn't buy good timber to
bolster up the club.
Moran won, though, and he won
without the money bag. He took
semi-motley crew of cast-offs, players
whom he headed on to the Cincinnati
park when they were being handed
one-way tickets to the minors from
other clubs. He took Daubert, Ma
gee, Rath and Knopf when other
clubs had hung the finished sign on
them and moulded team that won
the bunting.
But Pitchers "Came."
The same thing may be said OF his
pitchers. Sallee, Fisher, Eller and
Reuther had had their whirl, but no
manager was chasing after them.
Moran took them, coached them,
nursed them, taught them control
and made the most effective pitching
staff in the league.
Baseball brains was represented In
those feats. But it was his person.
atty that oiled the mechanism and
kept the machine tuned up. He had
some little antagonistic spirit to
overcome when he took the reins.
Heinie Groh was all set for the
"Mrg" title and several Of the club
thought he deserved it. But Pat
smoothed that over, brought about
spirit of cooperation, put winning
kick in the team and has had them
for him all season.
Credit For "Boys."
The only time Moran opens his
mouth to speak of the feat is when
he takes occasion to pay tribute to
''his boys''
Recently in New York he said:
Don't give me the credit. The boys
there on the bench have done the
work.
That's what won for him.
Moran is 43 years old. He was
born in Fitchburg, Mass, Feb. z,
1875. He started out % years ago
with Lyons, N. Y, in the New York
State League. He went to Montreal
for two years and then signed up
with the Braves as catcher In 1901.
In 1906 he went to the Clubs and
was receiving for Frank Chance
when the famous old machine was
winning pennants in 1895, 1897 and
1898. He went to Philadelphia in
1910 and succeeded Charley Doom
as manager in 1915, winning pen
nant. When he was relieved Of COM
mand, McGraw. signed him as assist
ant manager and coach and released
him this spring to take the Red man
agement. Pat then went out and
took the pennant away from his
benefact0r.