| Show shortstops SHORT STOPS JOB IS THE MOST ON TEAM players last longer in this tion than in any other on a ball club wbk wh do last longer than other llio ahe revoida show allow clearly that they do tint thit the short stop once established with till a dub club goes on year after year sometimes till the very dite date d ite ot of his coming coining la is only a tradition while the other fel lows iowa pass in and out in shoals and herds iceie tire are cases where the shortstop has seen a whole club come and go there are cases where nun aln have planed shortstop on oil 1116 first day of their entrance ent ranco to the big league and N when lien the blue anvel e ai rived it was as almost a generation later every man who was waa with the club when illen the shortstop came has vanished and five new managers have gohei gov pined tied the shot stop a career look lit at the length of tinie time that glasscock anid arid and herman long plied short or the number of eais that dahlen and davis have gamboled gam bound the same old territory I 1 ahe he crevoi revoida da of the chicago national league club give a good example of the way the short slops last lait since ud ed williamson Wllliam Bon played his 1 iest gima ganie tor for tile the national league management 11 19 years have passed and in fit all that space of time the who played tho the place long enough to be thoroughly re were cooney dielen ir win and tinker magoon and gene came for a little lettla while cooney arid and irwin iraln not in evl evi deuce dence for many seasons ot of the 19 campaigns about 14 must be credited to deblen and linker dining the same stretch of time how many men have tried to flay second tor for the chicago nationals Natio nils wils tie number Is so great that many have been utterly for forgotten goLten but here are as many as now catch the mem mein ory howard aarle dos OIL nalvin pete 0 brien jack odrien jimmy connor ried fied II feffer just a come back foi a little while jimmy ca a ion an dill bill nagin nag in george decker bill lange cupid childs peter childs hairy truby lou camp jiggs par rott bobby low harry barry mccormick mccormack lck pred lla camei gnei and no one really knows how many more in the same third base has been kept almost equally busy with new occupants third basemen for the team since tom burns gave up the job hill dahlee daalen jiggs parrott charlie iraln in GUI dill eveiett jimmy connor harry wolverton bradley Kr ailey jimmy casey barry mccormick McCorm lck and a mis cel laneous array dahlen after coming over from third base stuck to the job for many many seasons tinker has been there for several years and Is apparently feord for many years to come many players and aad critics say that it Is easter easier to play second than short but why do the shortstops short stops last and the second basemen fade away |
