Show JIM HERE Is one thing to be said about the yankees As a team win will or lose they have been bee il tile most consistent machine of all time they came up and ruled tile the game for four years as a team when they crashed they fell ell apart as a team no one can look back on the cam aien aign P of 1940 and pick out any yankee goats not one goat or two goats or three goats they rose and fell together it was a general and widespread disintegration their pitching tell fell far off from old time form their hitting took a terrific slump their once almost miraculous defense grantland Grantlan dRice rice developed leaks tore fore and aft no one can throw the bla blame nit on bill dickey red ruffing ie lefty ftc go M bicz joe gordon red rolfe kolac frank Cros crosetta ettl or joe Dl Maggio they all hit the soapy chute head and head arm in arm part of this was physical part of it was psychological part of it was the iron shod turn of nature there la Is no such thing as perpetual motion upward or downward life Is so constructed that one learns more from defeat than from victory this Is an invaluable law of compensation pensa tion it if it that way what hat an upside down existence this would be the yankees on one side were assailed by a physical downward drifting dickey buffing ing gordon gomez and others stars who had been factors in their phenomenal supremacy pre macy they were attacked on another side by too ton much success they were rated 3 to 5 shots against tile field as the season opened they were kick ins this was bound to have a bad effect on the entire team I 1 mean psychologically explaining the why I 1 have been asked orbr over and over how an entire team could hit the gravel road in a bunch it lust just a matter of at three or tour four important cogs through the first three months but dickey ruffing gomez gordon rolfe crosetti sundra to mention only a few in the first place dont forget that the yankee battery of hulling and dickey was one ne of the greatest in baseball along with mathewson and bresnahan johnson and strait drown brown and kling grove and coch rane ranc waddell and shreck alexan der and on and on dimaggio DIMagg lo remained the leading factor through the teams last desperate charge before most of the cost cast fell apart bill dickey has been a major factor tor for many years he Is a 12 year veteran back of the plate dickey is the only catcher in history who ever drove in more than runs four years red ked ruffing has been one of the most effective pitchers la in the old clutch year after year but red rad finished dished with a bad arm after the last world series and he be has never been the old red since rn in tact fact one of the smartest base ball ex experts I 1 happen to know stin still believes that if the reds had won that fourth game in cincinnati which they had bottled up they might easily have won the series ilow how because became stuffing and gomez and pearson all had bad arms and were useless the remainder of the route the fire spreads here was the triple battery rut flag fing and dickey deckey gomex and dickey pearson and dickey that largely through wear and tear the drift of the years lost a good part of its effectiveness from here the fire began to spread to batting battan eyes the yankees demonstrated their old time thunder with the war club heri here and there but all you need do Is look at th the a batting averages compared to a year ago buddy rosar and henrich and selkirk held their own or better rosar has turned in a fine assisting job but no team can have such men as dickey ruing gomez pearson gordon keller and crosetti take such a dip and still keep winning not not against such teams as detroit and cleveland Clevela ild who had both the pitching and the hitting and who were removed from the old yankee shadow looking Loof cing them over dick bartell helped to make the tiger infield hank greenberg again was a major factor at bat plus high class work in the field schoolboy rowe came back with a rush and buck newsom was one of the star pitchers of the year charlie gehringer may be slipping after long and brilliant service but he Is still a great ball player cleveland la in bob feller has one of the great pitchers of all time one who may finish AS the greatest if the army dorwil interfere |