Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19

have done good job Gee. kidding that's fine"
JoosT 81 MAY NOT the best manager in these parts
but nobody tops him enthusiasm This his first shot at
managerial job minors majors Eddie getting
out of it. &c. apparently, the Athletics got away
winging in the Grapefruit League.
The Athletic franchise is not in what you might happy
state The customers have been staying away
the club is morgaged to the h The playing personnel has
deterorated 1.-TWO place finishes in the last 20 years.
and the rival Phes have taken the play Philadelphia
After the St Louis Browns transferred to Baltimore
last October there general Athletic brass
Arthur Eers left to become manager Orioles
followed by Field Manager Jimmy Dykes his
coaches The Mack clan headed by Connie remained Of
course and tapped ShorSop Joost Dykes
As player Joost may be all finished and readily adj
mS it. MY right knee pretty well shot," Eddie was saying
First hurt in bali game last reinured
IN an automobile accident I'm still the active list
how long don't know"
EDDIE AND HIS ATHLETICS temporarily are making
in Tampa sharing the hotel with Chi
cago White Sox. But unlike the Sox brass who delight in
needing the champion Yankees Eddie says. frankly:
I'm all for the Yankees What ball club I've got
of due to the Yankees They the club base
ball. no question about it. Ask the Washington people, they
Will level They got Portered Shea and indirectly McDer
mott and Implicit from the Yankees
"One of the doing right this spring
Is the ex-Yankee contingent Vic Power and Bill Renna
playing their heads OF in the outed Bolweg
good first baSeman far We may have sleeper in this
catcher AL Robertson All those fellows
Yankees, or at least from their Kansas City farm.
We had to give up Harry Byrd and Eddie Robinson nice
we still won only 50 games I've got feeling wen do better
this season."
SOME ONE WAS ASKING Joost about Power "Is he
good boy?" the way the question worded. 1.-THE
Yankees maybe it only George Weiss indicated
that he hard to handle" .v-.. .- 49,
81 only say" Eddie replied that given
trouble heard that he had reputation of sort while
at Kansas City, which why he wasn't brought up to the
Yankees He's all right in book but of mine is
only little book so far. I'm just newcomer"
Victor Pelot Power is large Puerto Rcan Negro who
the key figure in the deal that sent Pitcher Byrd and First
BaSeman Robinson the Yankees in December For Kansas
City in 1852 he played the oued 33 hit doubtless
II triples and 16 homers Last year Power
for and astronomical figures
otherwise For instance, PIT hits many which
bloopers.
"Tn keep him." Joost grnned. got to change my
mind and don't think he will"
BEEN AN ODD career for Edwin David Joost who
broke into organized ball with the Pacific Coast League at the
tender age IT, kicked around in the minors with
good-feld no-ht label him for few years and then
Cincinnati grabbed him. From the Reds he moved to the
old Boston Braves and then in 1914 he voluntarily retired
He only % years old then but apparently Eddie had
had for he played 1 games for the Braves "a and baed
only 1885, He drfted to the minors again Rochester but
sky the Athletics acquired him in 1947 The
fellow who had hit than four home for
big league club suddenly bosomed into distance clouter
In the next six for Philadelphia he hit 100 homers
with high of % in 1949 JooSt began to glasses (Which
probably had been his trouble all aong) and people began
in the American League Now Eddie is manager and If
is not much Of bali club he's managing he thinks he is
getting break. +
Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow, either.
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