Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prose style of John McGraw...
With these drawbacks firmly in the reader's mind, the book will probably prove decidedly interesting to a follower of professional baseball. Who, for example, knows that Hans Wagner made the longest throw on record ? That Bugs Raymond once took the Keely cure? That McGraw raised Fred Snodgrass' salary $1,000 after the fielder muffed the fly which cost the Giants a World's Series...
...McGraw is naïvely convinced that college training is ideal for the professional ball player. In fact, this idea is almost the central theme of his book. He dwells on it so fondly that the uninitiated might suspect the colleges existed solely for the purpose of producing intelligent ball players. Unconsciously Mr. McGraw has thus produced a piercing satire, far more brilliant than Mr. Edison's, against our reverent institutions of the so-called higher learning...
...Author. John J. McGraw is too well known to the world of ball to require extended biography. Even those who are uncertain of the difference between a single and a signal have read McGraw's name in the headlines. He has figured in one or two street brawls. Has played in " vodvil," is not unknown to horse racing. He was a member of the famous Baltimore Oriole team of 1894 and has been a forceful figure in the game ever since. He has seven...
...THIBTY TEARS IN BASEBALL- Jotsn J. McGraw-Boni...