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Show MORIARTY NOTED AS BASE STEALER Hero of Stirring Editorial, "Don't Die on Third." ' If George Moi-lnrty, new Tigot manager. man-ager. Is as successful in building a baseball team as he was as a player in stealing home, Detroit, In 1027, may see Its first championship team In nearly two decades. Moriai'ty was the hero of a stirrlr.. editorial, "Don't Die on Third''; a bit of willing which, first published in a Detroit newspaper, was built around n brilliant theft of home executed by Moriarify at ilie heyday of his career in a game against Cleveland. The editorial's edi-torial's substance was that the trip from third base to home plale is the most important part of the Journey around the bases. Movlarty never was such a bold base burglar us Ty Cobb, whom he succeeds. lie was a mediocre lntleld-er. lntleld-er. His baiting was evpu more commonplace, com-monplace, lie even lacked speed. Tint making up for these shortcomings was one of the keen baseball minds of the day. Morlarty, like Cobb, played base-hull base-hull with his head. He was lightning quick to sense a "break," and equally fast In taking advantage of it. Despite (he fact t hat as a player he never was a phenotn, lie always was popular with Detroit baseball fans, because it always al-ways was apparent that Morlarty was always playing to his utmost ability. Morlarty went to the Tigers In lEHJfi from the- New York Highlanders. He gained .favor with the team members and with Hughle Jennings, the manager, mana-ger, and was named captain. His days as a Tiger were encompassed by the years IfiOO anti 015. Sold to th Chicago White Sox, )ie shortly afterward after-ward went to Memphis in the Southern South-ern association as manager. His stay there was broken to permit him to .loin the American league staff of umpires. um-pires. The new manager will find virtually n new ball club from the one he left in 1015. Two men who played with him. however, still are members of the cluli George Dauss and Harry Hell-mann. |
