The Washington times., 1937-10-14
Hot StOUe League Hears
OM-SeasOn Trade Winds.
Cards Place
Dizzy Dean
On Block
MUNGO SOUGHT
BY PAT ROBINSON

MUNOO OOOOAA4
BY PAT ROBINSON
NEW YORK, Oct. IA. - The
baseball stove league season was
officially declared open today
with more trades impending than
any off,season the game has ever
known.
Every club in both major
leagues, with the lone exception
of the world champion Yankees,
is definitely in the market for
new material. and even the Yam
KEGS are bringing young Gordon
UP from their Newark farm 10
supplant Tony Lazzeri at second
base.
No club except the Yanks can
afford to stand pat. Some OF
them dare not stand pat. In this
latter category are the Cubs and
Giants both of which have been
torn by internal diSSenSlon.
JOCKEY FOR POSITION
The scouts and managers now
are iockeying for position in the
trade race. Among them, the
most pressing questions at the
moment are:
Who will get Dizzy Dean from
the Cardinals? Who will get Van
Mungo from the Dodgers? How
far will Bill Terry go in his shake
UP of the Giants? Will Steve
O'Neill be retained as manager
of the Indians? Will Tony Laz-
zeri manage the Bees or will the
Indians take him?
The first two questions are OF
most interest to baseball men.
The Dodger front office today de-
clared that Van Mungo is def
nitely on the market. The fire
ball pitchers days as a Dodger
are numbered, and the club will
accept the best offer made for
him.
The Dodgers say that only the
Cardinals, Reds and Cubs can
afford to give as much playing
material for Mungo as the club
thinks it should have.
WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE
The Dodgers intimate that Diz-
zy Dean and Pepper Martin would
be acceptable from the Cardinals;
that Lee Grissom and Ival Good
man would be okay from the Reds
and that Frank Demaree and Lar
nv French or even Clay Bryant
wouldn't be bad from the Cubs.
The trick will be to get the
Cubs, Reds or Cardinals to see
eye to eye on the these deals. At
least. they make a starting point
for trade discussions. Dizzy Dean
would be particularly happy in a
Dodger uniform and how Brook
lyn fans would go for him! They
never cared much for Mungo but
they love Dean.
Baseball men expect that Terry
will return Mel OFT to the out
field where he belongs: that he
will dispose of Lou Chiozza, Sam
Leslie, one of his catchers, either
Harry Danning or Gus Mancuso,
Hal Schumacher and some Of his
lesser fly.
HUBBELL ON BLOCK
Terry was ready to trade Hub
bell to the Pirates a few years
ago; he might conceivably be even
more willing to trade him now
to the Dodgers for Van Mungo
or to the Cards for Dean, if salts
factory terms could be made.
Some of the major league
scouts, who usually are in close
touch with front offices every
where, are of the opinion that
O'Neill has a much better chance
to stick with the Indians than he
had two months ago, but they
admit that O'Neill is not vet out
of the woods.
Lazzeri would grab at a chance
to manage any big league club,
but he undoubtedly would much
prefer the Indians, because they
need a second baseman, and be,
cause he would rather play in a
league he knows.
These are only a few Of the
surface highlights being discussed
in major league circles today.
There will be many more on tap
before the annual meetings. And
this time. says the baseball men,
there will be more trades actua.
ally made than ever before in any
off-season,