Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-07-24 | Page 19 | Yankee Bat Boy Confident

Yankee ee Bat Boy Confident Timmy Sullivan Sulliva Has Faith in His Ball Players By FERD BROWNING AP Feature Service Sports Writer NEW YORK July 24 Americas America's kid baseball fans think Timmy Sullivan Sullivan Sullivan Sul Sul- livan is the luckiest guy in the world So does Timmy Sullivan Sulivan Timmy is the peppery little bat batboy batboy batboy boy for the New York Yankees In the past four years hes he's earned about 2000 in regular pay with pay with tips totaling an extra 2750 Timmy was mascot for Columbia university athletic teams from 1933 until 1936 Then Andy Coakley Columbia baseball coach learned one day that the mascot almost matched some of the athletes in age He recommended to friend Joe McCarthy that Timmy be hired as Yankee batboy Timmy saw his first world series from the Yanks' Yanks dugout a few months later His employers won it They haven't missed since Timmy's pretty proud of that record He plans to quit his batboy batboy batboy bat- bat boy job though and leave the I Yankees to their own resources after they win this fall Sure were we're a cinch to pull out of this hole Timmy doesn't look it but buthe's buthe's buthe's hes he's crowding 21 and 21 and a guy has hasto hasto hasto to think of oC his future The youth is popular with the players The way they've treated him in world series cuts shows I A Joe DiMaggio left gets a few tips on getting the Yankees back toward the top spots from Bat Boy Timmy S Sullivan who still thinks New York will come through to win its fifth world series sei-ies straight money that In 1936 he received The champs voted him in 1937 1000 the next year and 1500 in 1939 Red Ruffing pitching ace stuck his head out of the dugout as Timmy Timmy Timmy Tim Tim- my recounted his batboy The redhead chided Hey fellows look who's givin pieces to the papers Timmy Timmy's Timmy's Timmy's Tim Tim- mys my's tellin em what to put in inthe inthe inthe the papers Timmy grinned and turned to the redhead Somebody gotta golla talk fast around here until you guys get goin