The Washington times., 1932-04-13
n. |. PLAYERS
IN MANY
TRADES
BY BABE RUTH

Another baseball season has got
under way and a glance over the
personnel of managers and players
in the two major leagues shows a
few of the old guard missing,
many youngsters making their
bids for places as regulars, not a
few players in the uniforms Of
clubs which they battled last sea-
son, and here and there a team
standing almost pat on its 1881
lineup.
Of the old guard, the most nota-
Bile absentee is Wilbert Robinson,
who has been associated with big
league baseball during the greater
part of so years. 1t must seem
strange to Robbie, with all the eX-
citement usually associated with
the opening of a season, to be
resting quietly, far from the scene
Of the opening day ceremonies.
I know Robbie is going to miss
baseball for a time. until he be-
comes accustomed to the change,
and 1 am quite sure that baseball
will miss him. But he goes with
the knowledge that he takes with
him the affection of the fans from
one end of the country to the
other.
Only Two Big Deals
The shift of players from one
major league club to another
does not concern the American
League to any such degree as is
the case in the National. The
White Sox and Senators made
the only sizeable deal in this
league. The players who change
uniforms are Jones, Hadley
Hayes and CASTOR now of the
White Sox; Reynolds, Kerr and
Berg, of the Senators, and Wei
land, of the Red Sox. The
AS almost made a deal which
sent Joe Boley to the Cleveland
club, but this was disallowed by
Commissioner Lands.
These few changes seem to
cover the shifting of players
from one American League club
to another. But take a look
at what has happened in the
National since the close of the
1881 season. Every club has fig
ured in one end of such a
transaction, with the Reds and
Brooklyns taking part in many
changes.
The squad which opened the
new season under the direction
Of Max Carey includes Waite
Hoyt, Hack Wilson, Joe Strip,
Tony Cuccinello and Clyde Suke-
forth, who were with other ma
Jor league clubs last season.
Changed Most
Dan Howley opened with a
squad that includes Babe Her
man, Wally Gilbert and Ernest
Lombardi, of last years Brooklyn
team; Andy High and Walter
Roettger, of the Cardinals, and
George Grantham, of the 1881
Pirates. These two clubs have
been changed more than any
other in either league and I
believe will add lot of interest
among the fans of Brooklyn and
Cincinnati.
Other player shifts in the Ma
tional League are those of Teach
out from Cubs to Cardinals, and
Horace Ford from Reds to Car
dihals; Burleigh Grimes from the
Cardinals to the Cubs, Lance
Richbourg from the Braves to
the Cubs, Fred Leach from the
Giants to the Braves, Rube Bress-
Ter from the Brooklyn club to the
Ph1llieS, and Adolfo Luque from
the BrooklynS to the Giants.
This list shows every National
League club except Pittsburgh
starting the new season with a
player who wore a different Ma
tlonal League uniform last year.
1t is possible that the Pirates
also have such player but
cannot recall him just now.
Standing Pat
Here and there we find a man
ager standing pat on the players
who served as regulars in both
1nfield and outfield last year.
Most of the clubs have made a
change, sometimes more than
one, in infield or outfield ar
rangement. But Bill Killefer, of
the Browns, has been using the
same lineup as he used last sea-
son, and Roger Peckinpaugh has
not seen fit to diSplace any of his
veterans with newcomers. Con-
ME Mack is virtually standing pat
on his 1881 lineup, though Cole
man has been dividing the right
field work with Bing Miller.
The Giants and Phillies have
not been doing much shifting but
Koenecke and Davis have been
appearing in the outfields of
these two teams.
The spring box scores show the
names of many young players
making bids for places. Of this
group CroSetti and Saltzgaver,
of the Yankees; Hack and Her
man, of the Cubs; Campbell and
Anderson, of the White Sox; Bill
Lawrence, Of the Tigers; Ed Cole
man, of the AS; Joe Morrissey
Of the Reds; Len Koenecke, of
the Giants, Eckhardt and Knothe,
of the Braves, and Carlton and