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Show CLEVER FIRST BASE PLACER Jake Oaubart of Brooklyn Nutionala One of Senion'i "Find." Telia of Early Start. BV JAKE DAUBERT, You ntk how I ki my tart Th 1 1 t In I mnrt.-d ii Ml .ll.., bai'k nu i I' tl that It In hard tu tell h I km w that at flint I didn't want to 'tut at all I l.tvd liiiimli.ill, nml ph. ted ever nliicn enn rt'tne iiiher. I ttn. nn the "Mrnt nine" tn niy hum town whin I wan 1 f yearn old Hut Ihf Idea ul Kt'tlltiK Into the hla lennuen dltl tint Cfitnc to tne fur a InflK time t wnn In the little Wllllnma Vuller b naue down In Huuthern Pcnnnyl. l.mln. mid wnn hltlllix pretty well, but my arm wnn bad I wnn a third bn.t'iunn then ntnl never hnd plnyetl much except nn a pitcher, nnd nnin. tlmra a catcher or the uutneld I nut an tifTer to no out nanln nlifti our lenum' w.-tit up, hut wnnted tn ntny at hiiine. I flfitnlif-tt up the nea-non nea-non them nnd nnw I coubl hold my own with them, pn-cpt that m V nrtu wan an bad I wanted to ipilL I rouldn't li'iive them acmnn fruiii thlril bnne. and benlden I didn't know much about plnyltiK the irn nt-, or ho tn take cure of my arm. I went to the mnnnicr and told him either I wuiiltl ko hnmi or (to to flrnt bnne. II a.kfil me If coubl play firm nnd I nnhl I thtiliitht I could, nltliouull I titter hnd tried It, and that a left-linndt'd left-linndt'd Ihruwor helutiiced there rather than nt third, lie liiunt have liked my nerve, fur he nave me a rhmu-c ntul I iiiudn K'.mI nftrl hit well. Then Clevv 1 ii li .1 ftut me and I tbtiiiKlit I waa ntnrted, but aoniehiw tht-y could not I't me. I thnuaht I wnn dolim fairly well, but they dinned me to Toledo, recalled me. chnnd me nKiiln anil finally I K't dlncouriiittd and ruuldn't hit and pverythliiK broke wrouit. mid I wnn n-nt to th Houthi-rn leiiKue. I didn't like the way Cleveland hail (rented in nnd I wauled (o ahow (hat bunch 1 could lilny the rtmne. I work Ms V7 r? Jake Oaubact. nl haul nt Mi'inphln nml aluilled lh Kami. learned a whole lot mul and tidily I m tiled tlutvn mid ntnrt d lilt-tlin;. lilt-tlin;. After that I wua nil rlnlit. I h-Knii cnrt-fctliitf fatilta mid wnrklnic harder to ic( iiIoiik nnd pretly aoon llinnklyii grabbed mo Thnt Htn I wan ready and knew I wan ready I had tb cuiilldciifc and I knptv that I could hold my own. |