New Britain herald., 1930-08-21
By WILLIAM BRA UCHER (NEA Service Sports Editor)

Here are the names of six of the leading batters in the National league; Herman. O'Doul, Stephen son, Wilson. Heilmann and Sisler.
 Every day you see their names bobbing up in the box scores, the home run column or the headlines chronicling some feats of derring- do.
 Yet each Of these gentlemen, at one time or another, has been de- posted in the ashcan out in the alley along with the old shoes. worn-o out tires. Christmas trees and ginger ale bottles. And each has come pop ping back like spurious pennies or the well known family cat.
 Almost everybody who ever had anything to do with the executive direction Of a ball team has consign- cd Babe Herman to the'place where all old tomato cans eventually find peace and rest. As far back as 1922. Detroit bade him hail and fare we'll. He went to Reading, then to omaha, only to bob Up again with the Red Sox. The Red Sox decided he needed schooling and sent him to Atlanta. Atlanta sent him to Memphis. Boston finally had to take him off Memphis hands but ship ped him right out again. Babe kept trying. exhibiting his act in San An tonic next. Thence he repaired to Little Rock. They bade him take it or the lam al Little Rock and he fled to Seattle.
 In 1925 he turned up at Min neapolis, still declaring himself to be a ball player. Finally your Uncle Robbie, who has a soft spot in his heart for castoffs, gave him trial with the Robins. Your Uncle Rob- Bic is not one to let a job slip through his hands half done He determined that Herman would either become a ball player or get killed out there in the outfeld with fly ball. The outcome was that Babe learned how to catch flies in his glove instead of his mouth and there he is-up among the leaders and the joy Of frenzied Flatbush.
 Hack Wilson also had some diff culty in learning the habits of the fly ball. McGraW brought him up from Portsmouth, Va, in 1923. and suffered him to dash around the outfeld for three years. In all that
 
 only once, in 1924, when he batted ,295. John finally released him to Toledo whence the Cubs drafted him in 1926 Now Hack IS doing noth- ing else but batting among the lead CTS and pursuing the Bambino for home run honors.
 Riggs "Old Hoss' Stephenson vas lunearthed in excavations in the Delta league back in 1920 by some research folk from Cleveland. He batted great guns for Cleveland for four long years, as a second base man. Then his arm went aury and in 1925 he was shunted from Kan sas City to Indianapolis. The Cubs sent Indianapolis on old pair of garters and a. strjngless ukulele in trade for him in 1926, Today he is one of the most feared hitters in the National league and is playing a dependable outfeld
 After the name Of Frank. ODoul who led the National league in hit ting last year and is fighting for the top again this season, appear tht words "optioned." "tra ded," "waiv. CTS" released" and sold" He wal up with the Yankees in 1919 ant down he went He was up with tho Red Sox. He was up with the Cubs He always went back until McGrav got him, and traded him to the Phils last year for Fred Leach.
 The other two whose names art up there are Harry Heilmann O the Reds and George Sisler of tht !. Braves. They are just a couple O old men who don't know anything about what to do with a baseba | except to belt it out Of the park !, Decrepit. aged and infrm-but wher they come 10 the plate, the pitche shudders.
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