October 29, 1913 Age 22
By Louis Lee Arms, The St Louis Star and Times
Where Huggins Is at Error.
If any skybrow of baseball tells you Miller Huggins doesn’t know enough baseball to make a winning manager, come right out and give him a horse laugh, or a hyena laugh, or ANY OTHER LAUGH indicative of GREAT SCORN.
If any skybrow of baseball tells you Miller Huggins doesn’t know enough baseball to make a winning manager, come right out and give him a horse laugh, or a hyena laugh, or ANY OTHER LAUGH indicative of GREAT SCORN.
Fie upon the person who would discredit Huggins’ knowledge of baseball. Huggins knows baseball. He’d be nothing less than a simpleton If he didn’t, after consecrating THIRTEEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE to the art of the diamond as exemplified in the big leagues.
Give Huggins the proper men and he’ll give St. Louis winning baseball.
Where Huggins seems most at error is in his policy of clinging to the cast-offs and veterans of baseball.
We cannot descend or climb to HUGGINS’ PLANE OF LOGIC in this.
Why Huggins should tie up to the Suggs and the O’Learys instead of concentrating upon youngsters and their development, is beyond us, and we frankly acknowledge it.
Huggins’ pitching staff was a joke last season when it was necessary to success, out of the chaos of that seasonal nightmare one hopeful fact was thrust, viz: “POLLY” PERRITT and WILLIE DOAK show symptoms or becoming pitching stars.
Perrltt and Doak were refined by Huggins after their matriculation in the big schools. They had the fundamentals for winning pitchers, and Huggins could make them to order for his own use.
None So Blind as Those Who Will Not See.
Ha can’t do this with Suggs. And as he cannot do this with Suggs. neither can he take any veteran in any position and make him adhere to an individual type of play which seems necessary these days to success if OBJECT LESSONS may be drawn from CONNIE MACK and JOHNNY MCGRAW.
Connie Mack’s team is successful because they play MACK-MADE ball; McGraw likewise wins pennants on McGraw-made ball. Show us how Huggins can hope for success unless he takes youngsters and makes them play HUGGINS-MADE ball, as opposed to the accumulation of a bunch of baseball derelicts, who know more now of baseball than they ever will learn, and who ARE NOT IMPRESSIONAABLE to new Ideas or “HUGGINS-MADE” baseball.
Upon this single point will the majority of baseball fans TAKE ISSUE with HUGGINS – he shows too great a predilection for veterans.
Beck, Callahan, Quinlan, Glenn, et al. are interesting in their promise for the future. Suggs and O’Leary are not and there are others on the Card for we know JUST what they CAN DO.
Huggins, who should be the first to realize that to be successful he must get the raw material and mold it to his own ideas seems not to have yet considered this fact at all.