Show Fateful Trade Branch Rickey general manager of the Cardinals liked Durocher and wanted to keep him But dur dur- during during during ing the 1937 World Series in New NewYork NewYork York he made the deal with the fc Brooklyn g-Brooklyn Brooklyn Dodgers Rickey called X in Frisch and said Well Ive I've just traded Durocher as you ou wanted P J. J He handed him a paper showing that for Lippy the Cards had re received received Infielders Joe roe and Jim Bucher Outfielder Johnny Cooney and Pitcher Roy Henshaw Frisch read the list then ex ex- exclaimed exclaimed ex- ex exclaimed claimed you get a short- short shortstop shortstop shortstop stop You didn't ask me to get you a shortstop said Rickey grimly All All you asked me was to get rid of yo 1 Durocher You out and go get one or play short yourself Frisch Is said never never to have re- re recovered recovered recovered covered from the blow and to have blamed Rickey for the absence of any suitable successor to the bril brilliant brilliant Durocher And Rickey is said to have fretted all summer for the same reason rea sou watching the Cards lose game after game with misfits at short St. St Louis sports writers said that Don Gut- Gut Gutteridge playing the short field had cost the team a round dozen defeats so sor tar far r with his wild throws Had at short said stayed they the team would wo ld have been In the pennant fight battling with the Pi PI- Pirates PIrates rates Cubs and Reds Frisch's career carcer as a player ended last spring when he took himself ofT off the active list leaving a record of 2311 games for baseball tyros to shoot at He holds many many World Series records In the eight which saw him perform always as a star he got 58 53 hits hits' far Car in hi excess of any other player in history He won the record of the most singles ever made by one man in hi the classics 45 the most two base hits 10 and averaged for the the eight series Now 41 reached a peak salary of oC His ills baseball ba ca ca- career career reer reer started at the age of o 19 ID when he da 1 to the Giants direct from n college where he be had bad starred at second base as well as In hi football John McGraw manager of the Giants had a special liking for forthe forthe forthe the fiercely competitive young play play- player er cr and aud in 1921 two years after he lie joined the team Installed him as the regular second baseman a spot where McGraw always alwa's had a star Frisch never hit lower than in his six years with McGraw A bitter dispute with McGraw at the ther r height of the 1926 1920 season led Frisch t s to quit the club and return home for fora 4 a time tune McGraw said that he had overlooked It It but that December when Branch Rickey offered him Hornsby McGraw swapped Frisch |