The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1955-09-10

the Sox had lost their "go that they miscellaneous
collection castos other clubs, that they didn't
the thing called class. And Marty kept grinnins
laughed along, but he disagreed
Baseball" said Marty, sis people. like the people
on this ball club and believe that they play good ball
for themselves me- you don't like that of put
ting it, let's just have feeling may get lucky
The Sox have helped tie the American League into
finely intricate knot this and is
these days predict them of pennant The biggest
single is Marty Marion The oncenifty shortstop
of the old ST. Louis Cardinals started his chore at Chicago
with a knowledge of how baseball is played. But
he started with the conviction that sort OF
basic material plus hope and courage, manager could
take long way. He proving his point to the
chagrn of an array of learned critics
Marty just 19 when he began learning big league
ways In February 1885, tried Daytona Beach,
Fla with the Cardinals they the Gas House
Gang. He tall (sx-two) for his weight, which then
under l6O But somehow his long and legs adj
justed the grounders that his way and frankie
Frsch tabled him kid to watch in the farm system
Even in those days Marty quiet polite seemingly
filled with Difference for the game of baseball and the
who played it. He stayed that way through ap-
premiership with Huntington in the Middle Atlantic
and Rochester in the international League and in
1910 he up with the Cardinals for good long stay
1t is part of the story Marion say that in dozen
years with the Cardinals he became living legend of
skill despite the fact that he very close to hit
ting 300. Marty had hope and to with his
knowledge of the game 1t only natural that after
his playing days he should become a manager.
Until last season no one implied that Marion had ex-
actly been born manage. Maybe because he had no
winners, very close conenders. He had the
Cardinals, then the ST. Louis Browns the Baltimore
Orioles. He fired from the Orioles by general
who accused him of being defeats If there is
which alone explains the high of the White
Sox this it perhaps this charge Marty Marion
quiet fellow, replying to it in the only effective way
possible He replying with the character which helped
make and keep him great player His hope his
have been communicated team have transformed it
into red-hot pennant contender.
Marty, who o four All-Star and played in
the World Series in 1912, 1943, 1914 and 1916, knows
and playing techniques. He take play apart
and tell you why and where and when But bascally he
has forgotten that the remains what he found
gangng adolescent in 1896: people. And people
cannot be reduced to formula. People wreck all
the formulas by hoping believing hanging The most
miscellaneous collection of players, assuming degree of
ability start playing winning ball together they
believing. Marion has always known this, never
doubling it. has been Of his being athlete
And he is showing that he has this faith people in
one of the most exciting pennant of all time.
It's easy, now, think of the White Sox as pennant
contenders But Marion believing them last spring
when it wasn't at ALL and people laughed at him.
They said he kidding but Marty assured them he
wasn't That's why, people say that Marty is a
natural manager, real strategst fellow born to the
purple He has proved that he believe make
whole team believe with him. 1t isn't that Marion has
points in baseball and a manager demonstrates a
of it, he's promoted to the highest ranking So
Marion should be- He grins and hrugs and calls it good
fortune. But who knows Marty believes that.
Martys success has been fashioned of far finer stuff