Not really a comment (but didn't Connie Mack make an odd pitching choice to open a World Series? Can't think of the year.) Regardless, I was fortunate enough to produce a book on baseball strategy with Tony LaRussa. Part of an advertising campaign we ran in the pre-game show of every Cardinals game for 10 years. Just Q&A on managing. I wrote the questions (although we presented it a slightly different way), Joe Buck read them, and Tony recorded his answers without ever seeing the questions in advance. He called it a pop quiz on managing. After 6 years, we had more than 350 questions and answers, which I published in a book we sold to raise money for charity. I am retired now, but a longtime APBA and PLAAY gamer. I ave a few copies of the book left, and if you think you would find it interesting, I would happily send you a copy. Let me know at ric ran 71 at gee male dot com. Be well, Rick
My Father & my two older brothers tell a different story. McCarthy asked Birdie Tebbetts to go into the locker room and ask the pitchers who wanted to pitch the playoff game. The only pitcher who raised his hand was Denny Galehouse. On Gene Bearden, according to Bill Veeck, Casey Stengel had seen Bearden pitch in the Pacific Coast League. When Stengel managed the Yankees the next season he told his hitters not to swing at Bearden's knuckle ball which was often outside the strike zone. When Bearden would fall behind on the count, he would have to come in with his very ordinary fast ball. The word spread quickly throughout the league and Bearden was out of baseball by the end of the season
Not really a comment (but didn't Connie Mack make an odd pitching choice to open a World Series? Can't think of the year.) Regardless, I was fortunate enough to produce a book on baseball strategy with Tony LaRussa. Part of an advertising campaign we ran in the pre-game show of every Cardinals game for 10 years. Just Q&A on managing. I wrote the questions (although we presented it a slightly different way), Joe Buck read them, and Tony recorded his answers without ever seeing the questions in advance. He called it a pop quiz on managing. After 6 years, we had more than 350 questions and answers, which I published in a book we sold to raise money for charity. I am retired now, but a longtime APBA and PLAAY gamer. I ave a few copies of the book left, and if you think you would find it interesting, I would happily send you a copy. Let me know at ric ran 71 at gee male dot com. Be well, Rick
My Father & my two older brothers tell a different story. McCarthy asked Birdie Tebbetts to go into the locker room and ask the pitchers who wanted to pitch the playoff game. The only pitcher who raised his hand was Denny Galehouse. On Gene Bearden, according to Bill Veeck, Casey Stengel had seen Bearden pitch in the Pacific Coast League. When Stengel managed the Yankees the next season he told his hitters not to swing at Bearden's knuckle ball which was often outside the strike zone. When Bearden would fall behind on the count, he would have to come in with his very ordinary fast ball. The word spread quickly throughout the league and Bearden was out of baseball by the end of the season