Show SAYS BASEBALL IS A POOR profession FOR YOUTH TO CHOOSE by BOBBY BYRNE copyright 1910 by joseph B bowles you ask me to tell how I 1 happened t to 0 get into baseball ae a p ofes eion in order to help young and aspiring play ere it they asked me I 1 would tell them everything I 1 could to keep them from starting not that I 1 knock the profession but I 1 think it is a poor one to choose not because 0 of the life it self but because ot of Us its temptations and hardships and worse norse than that the email small chances of being really sue suc it if I 1 had it to do over aigin I 1 do not think I 1 ever would become a protes atonal ball player in spite ot of the act fact that I 1 love the game and love to play it I 1 think a young fellow would do better to devote him elf to some other line than to take the chances ot of sue suc cess in the national game tor for even when he wins he loses I 1 wanted to be a ball player and was educated at the game in a good school on the lots around st louis I 1 think that ball players develop taster faster when they are in the ot of some major leagle team one or ur two 0 of the players on a prairie team are at every game the big leagues play they see how the game Is 1 played and being bet 9 1 at that age as imitative as monkeys they work the same things on their 0 own n teams and teach all the other ba bos 05 s I 1 h have lave noticed that when any city has a pennant winning club the quality ot of baseball played by the boys and tho the amateurs in that vicinity Is much improved the first regular team I 1 made was the arcades at springfield mo which was quite a team merely because we had one fellow who knew the game well and could teach us it is easier to teach boys than to teach men as they will obey without a question it if they think the leader knows what he is doing I 1 picked up the game rapid ly the hardest thing I 1 had to learn was when to throw I 1 think I 1 must have thrown away halt half the games we played before I 1 learned not to throw when there was no chance to get the runner I 1 think that is one of the things a young player should learn to look before he throws and only throw when he has a chance to make a play the next thing it seems to me is to learn to handle ones one s feet and to keep la in the game alt all th ohp time and be in position to move when the halt la Is hit or before I 1 played around in the trolley league at st louis and then took a chance and went to shreveport I 1 a where I 1 made good right off the reel I 1 start ed well but got to thinking that the old heads down there were not as good as the kids in the trolley league until they began to show me things I 1 never had heard about luckily I 1 had Y av 4 4 4 F boddy byrne sense enough to see they were right and I 1 followed them the first thing I 1 knew I 1 was back in the big league at st louis the biggest thing I 1 had learned wat wal that no matter how tar far a fellow gets up in the business still Is 13 a lot he does not know and by dint of amt bathing hang and learning I 1 held on and st at il am learning and willing to learn when I 1 I 1 now it all quit or be released |