The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Whom Did Mock Succeed As Monoger? There's A $64 Question And Then Some
By HARRY 0RAYsON NEA Sports Editor

New York. Aug. 7.-CelebrattnR his Golden Anniversary as . major league manager last week. Connie Mack wishes he could say he vas out of debt.
 T have to make baseball pay. the same as any other business man." says the patriarchal pilot oi the Athletics.
 Young Cornelius Mc0illicuddy stepped out of an East Brookfleld. Mass, shoe factory to sign his first professional contract in 1883. Is still the most active member Of the Philadelphia party at 8i
 A rich sense of humor has helped to keep him going down through the years.
 When Mack sold Jimmy Foxx to the Red Sox for si50.OO0 at the winter meeting in December, 1885 he told Eddie Collins that he had to have a catcher. The Boston club offered him one of two. Collins recommended George Savino. Mack accepted him.
 Philadelphia baseball writers were on Mack just little at the time for disposing of so many name players and getting so little In the way Of talent in return. Jimmy Dykes, Al Simmons. Mule Haas. Lefty Grove. Rube Walberg and Max Bishop had gone before. The writers were waiting in another hotel room for Mack and the news on Foxx.
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 Mack remembers names remark ably we'll and mispronounces them just as readily. He had never heard of Savino. however. and had for gotten the name by the time he reached the elevator. He retraced his steps. knocked on the door Of the room in which Tom Yawkey. Collins and Joe Cronin were con- graduating one another on the humping Foxx. Collins opened the door.
 Eddie" said Mack. what did you say the name Of that catcher was?"
 "sayino." replied Collins. George Sayino.'
 "oh. yes. Savino." chortled Mack, Wont those Philadelphia writers be pleased to know ti:at I have Sayino."
 old Hoss Radbourne was the great pitcher the year Mack broke pound catcher they called Stats. Mack caught three years before the chest protector made its appear ance. The catcher's mitt was an ordinary kid glove with the fingers amputated. The catcher was Ire only man on the club who wore anything on his hand.
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 Players cut the grass around their positions with mowers.
 Those who acted as umpires were afraid to open their mouths. Mack saw umpires chased from the prem- ises. beaten up.
 Mack gained his greatest fame as a player as the battery mate of Q pitcher named Gilmore. Both were so tall and thin that Man. ageF Mike EcanlOn Of Hartford called them the Shadow Battery, and the tag stuck. Gilmore fans ned more than 300 batters in an Eastern League season, refused to sign with Washington unless his catcher accompanied him.
 The gentlemanly Mack was an expert at bat tipping when his pitcher was in hole. He was al- ways apologizing in that soft way.
 4 broken leg. suffered when Her man Long plunged into him at the plate in 1893. hastened the end of his career as an active combatant. He caught his last game for Pitts burg in i896.
 In l3es, Connie Mack succeeded Al Ruckenberger as the Pittsburgh manager and has been running club eyer since. the Athletics since they were founded in 1901.
 There's the answer to what really is a s64 question-and then some