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Show LEARN TO'CAOiCH IfVoUWODLP MAKE GOOD IN BASEBALL GAME Many of Major League Ma Youngsters who want to stay In the game after their baseball legs give out should go to catching. It seems from figures that the wlso old backstops have the best-tinnce of remaining In the game at big money after their field days are over. One-half of the major league managers mana-gers are old catchers and practically every one of them have teams up In the races In both leagues. Old-time catchers. In fact, have become so successful suc-cessful In handling teams that club owners nre seeking them for open berths. National League Leads. The Nntlonal League lends with six managers who have nerved behind the batl'aj Moran, manager of, the Iledf, has two pehnnnts and a world's chars-; plonshlp to his credit. Ilrnnch Itlckey' hud the runner-up last year and the prospective dark horse of 1022. George Olbson fulled to win a pennant In his first ycur nut, vv hen his team collapsed In the stretch with the pennant almost nagera Are Old-Time Catchers. cinched. Fred Mitchell made a success suc-cess of the Dravcs and 'put the Notional No-tional League on the map In Uoston. Bill Kllllfer, star catcher of theCubsL Is the only playing "manager nmong Uie receivers. He started In mid-season Inst year after Johnny Even resigned, and he did as well with the club as could bo expected. Undo Wllbcrt Itoblnson Is unother good example ex-ample of the .success achieved by former for-mer catchers. Connie Mack la Dean. ' Only two managers In the American league can trace their career back to tho mask, and big glove days. Connie Mnck, veteran mnaager of the Athlet-Ics'ni'tlfti Athlet-Ics'ni'tlfti dftm 'bf them all. The lean. Icndec.of tha. Philadelphia Americana Amer-icana used Jo.,be. ihe king of them all, but he has been In the slumps for six years. Lee Fohl, who has built up a pennant contender for the St. Louis Browns, Is tho only other former catcher handling a club In Ban Johnson's John-son's circuit. |
