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The fan has a rood good case here as asJong assong ason Jong song ( ? as he docsn doesn t move Into per peronal perIona personal Iona , onal ] Invective , , Involving the play player playera playancestry er era s ancestry and his present prescnt family ramily which often orten 'J'ne Jne 'J'neonly ' ' only haU hail halfway way shock I ever picked pickedup pickedop up p over a booing Incident oCnrred occurred oCnrredmany occurredmany occurredininy { ) many years ago go when Pittsburgh Pittsburghfans Pittsburghfans Pittsburghfans fans started startcd ridinc riding Honos Banns Honus WagnerWagner WagnerWagner Waffner Wagner WaffnerWagner Wagner was then in his 41st yearHe year yearBe yearHe Be He had been an outstanding star startor starfor startor tor for over 20 seasons He had gIVcn given gIVcnJIullions givenmillions givenmillions JIullions millions as many thrills as any anyball anyball ! ball player had ever displayed up upto upto upto to the reign of Babe Ruth the all alltime alltime alltime time thrill king His brilliant work workat workat workat at short with his bushel basket baskethands baskethands baskethands hands his great base running his histremendous histremendous histremendous tremendous hitting through two dec decades decades decades ades seemed to be quite enough enoughto to allow for a few lapses In bis his fad fad1ng fadjug tading 1ng jug dayshome days daysHome Home and Visiting Vzsztzng BoosBut Boos BoosBut But the theme song of the base baseball baseball baseball ball crowd is It isn Lsn t what wbat you youused youused youused used to be - It s ( what you are aretoday aretoday aretoday today Just what the Flying Dutch Dutchman Dutchman Dutchman man thought of the vocal raspber raspberrles raspberrtes raspbernes rles rtes thrown his way no one ever everI everw1ll everwill everwill I w1ll will know But I ve ye figured flgured ever eversmce eversince eversince smce since that if a home crowd could couldboo couldboo couldboo boo Wagner no one else should showd be beimmune beimmune beimmune beimmuneBall immune immuneBaIl immuneBall Ball BaIl players tell me they have haveno haveno haveno no feeling feelmg about being bemg booed mhos mhostlle in m hos hosthe hostile tlle the hamlets I know John McGraw McGrawrelished McGrawrelished McGrawrelished relished the dislike he delJberately deliberately delJberatelybuilt deliberatelybuilt deliberatelybuilt built up in m Chicago St Lou sand sandother s and andother andother other cities away from New York YorkI YorkIve I ve ye heard Matty booed in m New NewYorkbut NewYorkbut NewYork York-but York but - but not McGraw although althoughbe althoughhe he be may have beenThe beenThe been beenThe The swiftest sVliftest and most effective effectivereaction effectivereaction effectivereaction reaction to booing from a rival rivalcrowd rivalcrowd rivalcrowd crowd came from Cobb years ago Ray agoBay agoRay Chapman Cleveland short shortstop shortstop shortstop stop had lust Just been killed by Carl CarlMays CarlMays days Mays " > in a Yankee Yanlee ! : game Cobb had hadbeen hadbeen hadbeen been quoted in an Interview de denouncmg denouncmg denouncmg nouncmg Mays Cobb denied demed the theinterview theinterview theInterview interview with considerable fervorThe fervorThe fervor fervorThe The next day appearing with theTigers the theTigers theTigers Tytook Tigers against agamst the Yankees Ty took a terrific vocal lathering from fromsome fromaome fromtome some aome 35 000 Yankee fans ( ins Its Itsno It II IIno sno no night'to tun fun Cobb told me that night 'to to ' to be booed hissed and cursed by byt by$5 by5 t 35 $ 000 American citizens ' But in to plaice place ot of curling up or orgrowing orgrowing 01Crowing growing sour , , Cobb stepped out that day thatday and got four ( our hits bits stole two or 01three orthree three bases scored scoredseveral several rung runs rune runsand runeand rungnd and nd broke up the baU ball game The Theanswer Theanswer Ttuanswer answer Is that the biff big crowd was wascheering wascheering wascheering cheering him blm In his last tune tlIDe up Showing Showmg Up the lU MobThis Mob lUob MobThis ob This seems to be the best answer The answerThe best reply to a boo or a vocal vocalcataclysm vocalcataclysm vocalcataclysm isto cataclysm of ot hate and derision is to show up the maudlin mobof mob of ofgoat ofgoat ofgoat goat getters You rarely hear them thembooing themboomg boomg booing a fellow who li is makmg making makmggood makinggood makinggood good theterrific No ball player ever took the terrific vocal riding Babe Ruth absorbed absorbed ab aborbed sorbed orbed in the Yankee Cub world worldseries worldseries worldseries series years ago when he came to tobat bat ChicagoPacked against Jack Hoot Root In Chicago Packed stands howled and yelled yeUedand yelledand and called Babe theywouldn names they wouldn t print in the press of pur gatory purgatory The Babe applied even viJer viler vilerepithets viJerepithets epithets one against agamst 45 45000 000 as he htpointed hepointed pointed to the poleThat center field flag pole That was the most famous home homerun run Babe ever hit in his collec collet uon hon coUection collecuon collethon of more than 700AU 700All 700 700All All AU I know about It the Babe Babttold Babetold told me later Is that ball was kinder waskinder egg shaped or flattened out outafter outafter outalter after they round found ( ound It . . e . eProblem Problem o of f 1947Ve 1947We 1947 1947We We \Ve Ve \ have been recentlywith talking recently WIth a number of managers not managersnot club owners or ball players playersabout about the 1947 baseball season One Oneof of the smartest smart"st smartst " told witlthe thiswiththe me this-with this with this - the amazing amazmg increase in attend attendazsce attendance ance with the thMexican theMeXican aftermathof attermath aftermath of the th < Mexican league and the union ar rival arrival baU ball players tor for 1947 are eoIng going galug ing lug increasesA to demand big pay increases go- go ga - A good many of these deserve deservisuch deservesuch such Increase Increases the manager said |