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Show discussion involved a young by the name of Stirnweiss, the Yankee second baseman. The general agreement was that his fine 1944 record placed him on top of all second basemen from both major leagues. Especially his base running in a year where base running was moving back with the Great Auk among the extinct species. At this point I began to think of the V greatest percentage base running of all j'r-t.- 4 time. A short while later I was lucky enough to run into the holder of this record, a tall, slender fellow by the GrantlandRjce name of Max Carey. Max said, I was never No, much worried about even the fast and smart Stirnweiss breaking my two-yerecord. As I recall It I made 54 attempts to steal one season and got away with 52 of these. The next year I tried 52 steals and got by with 48. So out of 106 attempted steals I was thrown out only six times, completing what you might call 100 jaunts from first ;o second. I think my average for ihose two years was around .96 per cent. "As you get older you begin to think more about any record you might have made. In my opinion base running is far more important than many managers seem to think it is. Youll see good hitters who get on pretty often,' who are fast enough, stealing maybe three or four times a year. Clubs fail to realize that good base stealers can upset a pitcher more than almost any other factor. Ill tell you why, Mercury Max continued. I never tried to steal off a catcher in my life. I ignored the catcher completely. I always stole off the pitcher, getting my lead when it was too late for him to change his pitch. Dont think this helped him any the next time I got on. For one thing it broke up his concentration and a pitchers complete concentration is a big part of his job. It wasnt easy for him to be thinking of the runner on first and also putting that ball where he wanted it to go. 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Tj Rabbit telleta and supplies INTERMTN. RABBIT INDU 2332 S. State, Salt Lake. Horn C0U is the i ind I Ba WEDDING REC01 Zori fn the Exact birth Copies made of any man certificate, for depended $1.50, extras 50c. Army discharp copied both sides. $2 50, extras SLI nals returned unharmed. ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHOTON 88 East 4th Se. had Ifiie a inf, i i FnI Spanish d f do it Buy War Savings Bi w nan: tation! ning, a lot more base running than they are getting today. Who is the ballplayer that so many rate as the greatest of all time? His name is Ty Cobb. Cobb was a great hitter, but he was just as good a base runner. And one of the main things all old timers remember about Ty Cobb was his brilliant base running that upset many a defense. Cobb would steal from 60 to 96 bases each year. His total, as I recall it now, is close to 900 steals. You can understand how many games all this must have won. Cobb ran much wilder than I ever tried to. His idea was not only to get an extra base but also to crack the morale and steadiness of the catcher, the pitcher and the infield. Now and then he made hopeless tempts, just to keep them guessing. Yes, it was Cobbs base running they always talk about. You recall in the recent world series in St. Louis what so many were talking about? It was the 1931 series where Pepper Martin starred to beat the Athletics, and they were talking about Peppers base running. , As you know John McGraw and Ed Barrow always picked Honus Wagner as the greatest ballplayer of all time, even over Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Wagner, of course, was a great shortstop and a great hitter. But Honus didnt stop there. He was also a brilliant base runner. Carrying his 200 pounds, Wagner often stole more than 56 bases a year, which is one of the main reasons for his selection by two such eminent baseball authorities. I cant recall even an attempted steal in the recent games between the Cardinals and the Browns. No one tried to bother the pitchers by ven faking a steaL This gave each pitcher a chance to keep his full concentration on handling the battle. The answer was 82 strike-out- s in six games for a new record. I know the crowds like base running and base stealing. They get a thrill out of seeing some fast runner take his whirl from first to second. If he makes it he is only one hit away from a run. If he doesnt try, he is two hits away from a run unless it happens to be a long blow, a double or a triple. But teams today are waiting for the one big punch, the one big inning. That was alright when you had Ruth and Gehrig on one club. But not nowadays. Most of them now are e one and hitters. Especially e hitters. These could drive in a lot more runs if that man on first would only get to second. A lot of us used to get there. Why cant they get there now? There is plenty in the way of speed today to pick up 35 or 50 stolen bases a year for any fairly fast man. 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