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Show SCHALK ON BASEBALL BRAINS Player Does Not Necessarily Need Schoolroom Education Case of Ty Cobb Is Cited. "A man does not necessarily need a schoolroom education to have what we refer to as 'baseball brains,' " says Ray Sehalk, leading backstop of the American league. "1 admit this Is the day of the college col-lege player in baseball," adds Sehalk, "and I he better education a man has, all other things being equal, the better bet-ter player he should be. But he might know n lot of Greek, literature, wave motion, phrenology, analytical geometry, geom-etry, metaphysics and similar subjects and still be absolutely a frost on a ball or the hit-and-run. "Ty Cobb has the ideal baseball brains, but Ty isn't a college man. On the other hand, I used to play In the minors with n graduate of a well-known well-known university who was a brilliant scholar and a good natural athlete, But he was positively the limit In playing baseball. He would do the most Incomprehensible things. In fact, he was impossible." |