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...competitors, Rose has been booed with equal ferocity for his playing style. Never a graceful player, he made himself indispensable with the kind of hustle Enos Slaughter personified and the aggressive disregard for physical safety of Ty Cobb. Running like a blocking back, Rose has broken up more double plays???and infielder's pride?than any other man playing baseball today. During the 1970 All-Star game, a bone-crunching collision at home plate left Cleveland Catcher Ray Fosse sitting stunned in the dust and television viewers aghast. In 1973 Rose had a wrestling match with Mets Shortstop Bud Harrelson...
Mindful of the Mets' conspicuous weaknesses, Hodges stressed basics?pick-offs, cutoffs, double plays???until the players had them down pat. "In the old days," says St. Louis Manager Red Schoendienst, "you could always expect the Mets to give you a few runs by doing dumb things. Now they make the plays in the field like professionals. The Mets have grown up." Perhaps most significant, they have developed a large measure of team cooperation and team pride. Says Hodges: "My main goal was to change the notion that everything the Mets did was wrong. I wanted them to do things...
Saturday's Children (First National). The marriage, parting and reunion of Maxwell Anderson's hero and heroine?one of the best of all U. S. plays???becomes heavy and slow in this partly-vocal photograph directed with sincerity but without much vitality by Gregory La Cava. Corinne Griffith's voice, heard for the first time, is nasal, unattractive, but somehow memorable. Best shot: Miss Griffith getting her sweetheart to marry...
...Grace de Grammont, in 1894, was Skinner's first success as his own manager. Then came the association with Charles Frohman and at last Kismet. A few more plays???The Honor of the Family, Mister Antonio, Blood and Sand ? and this story of nearly 50 years is done...
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