Show TT T WOULD have been a big lilt lift to big league baseball if lou the mad russian ot of the cubs could only have approached his minor league average under the big tent there has always been a need in baseball for or another rube waddell another bugs raymond or another dizzy dean they had more than their share of color but they had had something more than color they were also g great reat ballplayers lou has carried around a gob of color but he has to prove he was a great ballplayer his average in los angeles and milwaukee both in strong leagues has been over at bat with los angeles in 1911 1941 he batted and hammered out 41 home runs he lou was known on the west coast at the time as the batter who could hit bit anything any pitcher could throw but his record kithil with th the e cubs cuba has been entirely different it if had kept up his minor league hitting lie be might have picked up where dizzy dean left off in the hea headline e c class ass but color does nt carry far when it Is minus real ability or high class skill on the west coast looked to CL be Q as good a hitter as ted williams willams who came along to bat over with the red ked sox box but he was no ted williams in the major show Novi kofEs koffs average with los angeles was over go 90 points above the williams average with san diego these figures were reversed when the two headed east for chicago and boston these are conditions that are hard to explain wont be 29 until december and it may be that charlie grimm can wipe away th the e dust from his big league batting eye the colorful types baseball can use more color than it has known since dizzy dean retired to tell st louis radio listener listeners that someone lod flod into third b base ase it could use another who split his spring and summer days three ways pitching tending bar and going fishing but it t s should uld be remembered that dizzy dean and rube waddell were among the great pitchers ol of all time it color alone that made them famous no one could have color than babe ruth P ping ing bodle bodie was never a great ball player but he was good enough he was another remembered character there was the time he be bought a parrot and taught the bird to keep repeating ping made good bugs raymond was a star pitcher but bugs also gave you something to write about and talk about on the side there was the time when bugs was pitching tor for shreveport he made a bet that he could eat a whole turkey drink two quarts of scotch and win a doubleheader double header he won his bet tradition says I 1 first ran into bugs the day he be landed in atlanta he was to pitch against the world champion boston red sox that afternoon back in 1904 bugs took three big hookers of scotch and walked to the park throwing rocks at telephone poles en route all lie he did was to shut out the worlds champions 2 to 0 I 1 would like to see a team that tha t was composed of babe ruth rube waddell Wi iddell dizzy dean bugs raymond larry mclean tacks aar parrott arlle arlie Lai caitham Lat liam tham germany german y schaefer al schacht crazy schmidt rabbit maranville Mai bla anville ranville and one or two however want to me more re I 1 be the manager strictly business on the other hand two ol of the greatest ball clubs I 1 ever saw were n never ever noted tor for color one was the connie macks athletic lineup line up from 1910 through 1914 winners ot of four pennants tn in five ave years the other was the yankees after babe R kuth u th left a crushing outfit season after season these two were compo ot of fine ball players who were rarely on the prankish or the lighter side ol of tife hie eddle eddie collins eddie plank stuffy mcinnis jack barry home run baker jack coombs chief bender to whom baseball was strictly st icily a business matter the same went for bill dickey joe gordon lou gehrig charlie keller spud chandler joe dimaggio and others who might have made up a session 0 of bank vice presidents baseballs bigger shots who Is the best tr trap ap andfield an and shot among big league ballplayers my vote has always been for or bill dickey in t the h e field end of 0 this sport ernest hemingway the writer casts his vote for or curt davis the dodger p pitcher i acher curt davis hemingway says is one of 0 the best trap and field shots I 1 ever saw hugh casey case y Is another fine shot so are arky vaughan and bill dickey quick eye and muscle response are needed both in and shooting shoot lne |