Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-28
Nice Lady,.
But Ruined
Our Club
Any Apparent Similarity
Is Purely intentional
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

and wonderful pitching and
then Mike dies on us and the
front office brought in Charlie
Dissenat and he brought in
some new ideas, and from then
on we had a lot of confusion.
Usually, as a rule. / never
cared for wives around club
because the pitchers old lady
she ties into the shortstop's old
lady If the pay-ball gets past
him and they form clicks and
all like that but DiSsenat he
said he had different ideas so his
wife she showed up at the camp
and l have to admit the crowd
liked her real good at first, she
was so democratic and how's-
the-bsby and let's play rSailes
around the hotel lobby al night.
She kind OF warmed everybody
up like one big happy family at
first
But pretty soon. after we got
home and the season gets going.
we'll one day she decides she is
going 10 come down in the dug
out and ride the plank with US
and tins was against the rules
but the boss ne laughed and said
a lot of old-time rules were Just =
superstitious and anyway she
knew as much ball as the rest
of us so she stuck and after that
she was there every day.
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CHE would tell the old man
~ who 10 pitch and when IN
hat and one day when we were
playing Brooklyn and we had
been hitting like a let Of muir
dererS she said she thought il
wasn't fair 10 make the pitcher
hit last all the time 50 in A
democracy we ought 10 turn the
order upside down and lead off
with the pitcher.
Well. believe il or not. by
some crazy miracle we win any
way so that makes her a genius
50 the boss left her have her
head and We lose the next eight
IN row and fall into second
division.
So she comes in one day with
little old guy with whiskers
and she says he used 10 coach
the bcan-bag team at Smiths
College where the students are
all girls and he is an expert on
morale, too. he is going 10 cheer
rs up with lectures While the
game is going on.
TIEN she brings in a young
Il squirt of a Study-Squirt from
some night school in New York
and he never had a stick in his
hand before. but she has hired
him for our side. she called n.
and when Otto asked her what
Is this new guy going 10 play
she says this Is an age Of Spe-
cialiStS and he is the batter.
He isn't going to do nothing
but bat and we should all bc
kind 10 him and not lockey the
mugg because he Is very nervous.
Well. the boss talkei her out
OF that but still he lad u let
the vaugg take turn and * 50
SCar,d he shuts his eyes and
ducked and the ball t.t tho bat
and believe IL or not !. goes for
two GASES.
So she says see she told ~
and The mugg is so Winded va
got 20 put a runner IN for him
beca.lSe he isn't "A runner any
way but batter specialist by
trade.
So we had 10 use him about
30 more times that season and
he never got so much as foul.
and this makes him sore and no
starts bringing youth books with
him and he tells us we are all
slaves and what about joining
union and everybody 20 on
strike.
She says everybody ought 10
belong 10 union and few
days later guy comes up from
the government and calls an
election, but meanwhile there 10
picket line outside the park
and she won't go through it and
the crowds stay away because
if they go through the line their
union will can them and the
front office says all right. we
will all have TO Join this union
to take the heat off.
And this mugg. our batter, he
counts the ballots and what do
you know he is the chairman
and everybody has got 10 pay
$500 initiation for the union.
One day she and the bean-bag
coach they got into huddle
with the batter specialist and
then they spring il on us that
we are reactionary and old
fashioned so starting today we
are going 10 run the bases back
ward. starting. you know. AT
third and first is now third and
Vally Didden breaks his leg
sliding the wrong way and bang
goes a 400 hitter.
don't know, / don't want To
blame anybody, because she GER
tainly was nice 10 talk 10 and
never mean or anything and AL
ways doing good for some poor
punk. but nsaybe / am old
fashioned because il just seems
IN ma tho ,ui,soc fbo,y lc,,rht a.