Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
WIN, LOSE OR
HNAW By FRANCIS STANN
Why, Notch-Brdie and Case

ST LOUIS, SEPT. 2S-The Associated Press never too
proud to seek advice is asking among other questions in the
first QUESTIONABLE of the for the big league managers
Of 1856" An easier start for quiz cannot be imagined
Even if the Milwaukee Braves win the National League
pennan Fred Haney can't be selected because there
George Brdie Tebbetts, who got much out of Gin
cnnau ball club that had much less than the Braves
and Brooklyn Dodgers His Reds the big rifle logging
gnawngy at the heels of the front-runners and time after
time getting up off the floor to become obnoxious
Cincinnati the sentimental favorite here for
number of not the least of which is Tebbe who
is articuat imaginative and uniformly kind to his players
public and If not to umpires Another important
factor was that Cincinnati hadn't for l6 of grim
effort and that in spring training the Reds didn't to
have the personnel to make II very close
Birdie Tebbetts is delightful He couldn't
con the baseball writer's but he apparently conned his players
Birdie would call his ined the best in the league day.
then deliver similar Grafton his outhed the next He
didn't overlook his catcherSmokey Burgess and Ed Bailey
and best of all he built up his pitchers until they all
believed they were pretty did good they
occasions
NOT so LONG AGO Buzzy Bavasi, vice president and
the general of the Dodgers uttered but
torgiveable remark when he said IF Tebbes has the Ma
tiona Leagues best neld oued catching and pitching
he ought to be fired he doesn't VIM Buzzy could
given because the annoyed at the time His Dodgers
weren't able to shake off a club they honestly knew did
not have the talent and depth of Brooklyn champions
TebbettS performed wonders with his pitchers such
they were. He had 26game winner such Don New
combe, nor from out of the blue like Old Folks
Maglie He had no Warren Spahn Lew Burdette,
Bob Bull His No pitcher average Hershen
Freeman who 22d in the league And he relief pitcher
The mufin-faced guy from Nashua NJ H. has been try
Ing to synchronze weird ined At hortstop second
base Roy Mcmillan Johnny Temple are the most agile
the most runSavng the moStest defense At
and third base where Ted Kuszewsk and Ray Jabonski
held forth most of the season. Birdie men,
Now that it's virtually for the Reds it longer can
be considered secret that during the Tebbetts
biggest deal will be solid pitcher for Kluszewski And
there any demand for him. JabonSki will co.
are not won home and Ku and Jabo proved it.
AMERICAN LEAGUE MANAGER of 1855? That one it
says here just easily Who Casey Stenge?
Don't he ought to have breezed of Yogi Berra
and Mickey Mantle, either because it Just isn't So
1t seems like long time ago since February in ST.
Petersburg when Stengetongue in cheek-was counting
his blessings Everybody says got pitching
stan and guess do except that don't know" Casey
drawled Anyhow got five starters they say and all
nave to DO is start Ford Byrne McDermott and
Iurey and theren be nothing to it."
Whitley Ford was his solid pitcher and Stengel knew
all along OF the rest he had his suspicious and they
not unfounded Maury McDermott, acquired from Wash
lngton, proved to be real turkey won two
games Bob Turley, the ex-Orioe has eight Don
Larsen another Orioe only nine Tommy Byrne who did
SO nobly in 1885, has a seven. So
The result was that Stengel had junk all except Ford
as starters and look elsewhere Out of the bull called
Johnny Kucks and Tom Sturdvant and this young pair
together with Ford formed Yankees pitching nucleus
1t was maserfu patch job by the Professor who didn't
wait too long past regulations vague richness of
latent promise
Anybody else got anybody else to nominate?