The ep19 Baseball Managers

This is Jimmy Powers ready to bring you another story from the Tumalt and the Shoutings. Hey there, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed coming your way once again with another chapter from the Grantland Rice story, The Tumalt and the Shoutings.

So with a bow to Granny, I'll pick up his narration in first person. This one I titled McGraw, Mac, McCarthy, and others. Of all the big league baseball managers I have known most intimately, perhaps John McGraw of the Giants, Connie Mack of the Athletics, and Joe McCarthy of the Yankees lead the list.

They won a total of 27 pennants, McGraw, Tim, Mack, 9, and McCarthy 8. The first manager I ever knew was Newt Fisher, owner and manager of Nashville's Southern League team. In 1901, he offered me $250 a month to play shortstop for Nashville when the best job outside of this was $5 a week.

I had to pass up the juicy offer because I had broken my right shoulder blade and right collarbone playing football the previous fall. The throwing arm was about done. McGraw, Mac, and McCarthy were totally unlike in every way.

I met McGraw and Mac in the same year. 1905, when I came up from Atlanta to cover the World Series in which Christie Matheson pitched three shutouts in six days. McGraw, a Bantam Rooster, a fiery leader, was always an active charge on the field and off.

He was the umpire's foal and the foal of every team he played. He courted dislike in various cities, for he was shrewd enough to realize that additional fans would come out to see the hated Giants beaten. He would get all the dopant gossip about umpires and then spill it on the field in the arguments that always arose. But I soon found that he was a friendly