Word: rulebooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rules & Responsibilities. When Terry decided to make him field captain in 1938, Ott objected: "Why Bill, I don't know the rules. How can I be captain?" Terry threw a rulebook at him and ordered: "Study them. You're captain." Soon Ott's bleacher friends, who always shouted advice to their favorite right fielder, noted the little difference that responsibilities made and began calling him Ottie. So did the players and the management. Then Terry quit the bench for a front-office job. The Giants' secretary, fidgety, coffee-drinking Eddie Brannick, had an idea: "God gave...