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Show Connie Mack Developer of Many Star Players Connie Mack, famous manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, certainly has been an angel to every other club In the American league except Washington Wash-ington and Detroit. Mack is perhaps the only major league manager who can be regarded as a real developer of players. He grabs them when they are young and models them into big leaguers. During the dark days after 1914, when Mack disposed of most of the stars of his great club, Shibe park In Philadelphia literally became a baseball base-ball incubator. In an effort to build up another great team Mack didn't overlook a bet, trying out every player , recommended. Here Is just a partial list of players who got their start under Mack and then shifted to other clubs either through sale or trade: Cleveland .Tamieson, Coveleskle, Burns nnd Larry Gardner. New York Schang, Bush, Shawkey, Witt, Dugan and Pennock. Chicago Collins, Strunk. Boston O'Neill, Picinich. St. Louis Danfortli. |