Spence School - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE WORLD OP SPORT lhe St lotus Cardznuls By FREDERICK G LIEB Needless to say 1 devoured every word After all lf IS the story of a great baseball cluo When Mr Lxeh classified hxs book simply as a story 1 thrnl: he underestxmated the factual completeness of the worl: As If now stands The St low, Carcfmals xs a verxtable reference book on that ball club The plot deals mth the players executlves and orgamzatxon of the Cardmals smce Der Boss Presxdent Chr1s Von Der Ahe owned the 1Nat1onal League Browns xt stops just short of the past world serxes when the St Louls Natmnal League Cardmals trlumphed over the St Louxs American League Browns There are two dlstlnct dxvxsxons of the hxstory of the Cardmals the first the rolllckmg beer gu77l ng Von Der Ahe era an era of faxlure as far 1s league attendlngs were concerned the second the smooth chckmg busxness organlzatlon of the Breadon Rtckey comhmatlon It 1s mth R1cl:eys farm system that Mr Lneb surpasses even h1mself ln clear accountlng Never before have 1 completely understood the comphcated structure of thls fundamental orgamzatxon of modern orgamzed hall Mr Lreb had compared xt to and made If as sxmple as our school system of elementary school hlgh school and college In my opmxon Mr Lxeb has not however made hrs 1-ook as colorful as lf mnght be The reason certa1nly cannot be attr1buted to lack of colorful character materral A Bugs Raymond ln any other baseball bool: would have the comxcal effect that a Falstaff has ln Shakespeare but nn The St Iouzs Cardmalr that sterlmg character 1 am of course referrmg to Mr Raymond now seems buned under contracts busnness deals and front office dnsputes The latter three undoubtedly had a greater effect on the ball club as a whole but Bugs Raymond and others l1l:e h1m make a ball club appeal to the 1mag1nat1on and st1ck m the memory Mr Lxeb however more than remstates hxmself wrth the passages about D1zzy Dean Here his colorful anecdotes are endless Perhaps Mr Lreb has reflected a natural tendency to be more graph1c when concerned wlth modern eras Frederlcl: G L1eb IS wxthout doubt well qualxfled to wrlte a book about St Louns or any other baseball club for that matter He has been a baseball wr1ter smce 1911 and has been sports ed1tor of the New Yor Prefs and the Nen Yor Sun Later he spent seven years as a sports cr1t1c for the New York Telegram and seven more on the staff of the New York Post wrxtmg a nationally syndlcated human mterest column called Cuttmg the Plate Since 1935 he has been a feature wrnter for the Sportmg News famous natlonal baseball weekly of St Louls Mr Lxeb has covered every World SCFIBS slnce 1911 exceptmg that of 1918 Three txmes he has been named chmef scorer of the World Serles bv Commnssroner Landrs for three years he served as president of the Baseball Wrlters Assoclatlon Hts articles on baseball have appeared m such magazrnes as the Saturday Evenzng Post Collier 5 and Lxberty In analyzmg Mr Lleb s style II xs probably best to sav lf ms prlmarxlv hrstoru: punctuated wxth anecdotes Then too at txmes nt IS analytxcal Whatever hrs style IS hxs bool: IS meant for the well read baseball fan A great deal of the bool: can be lost through an msufflclent knowledge of the general background of the game If I were asstgmng thls bool: to a class studymg baseball lnterature I would save rt for the jumor year at least Mnvn MoRroN XI If 49 V ' ' V . 9 ' 1 1 ,, . . . , ' I . . ' ' 1 1 7 ' . ' , . 1 ' er as Q V4 ' - - - . , , . . ,, , 1, -, , 1 . 9 9 K , . V ' .. . ' ' ' Q 1 1 f 1 V 1 1 9 ' 1 1 f ' , . ' , , , . ' - 1 ee H 1 1 1 - ' 1 r v 1 1 L 1 ' ' V Qc H 1 . . , , A . . . Y . , . 1 f le f le 1 1 ' ' Y 1 1 . . . , . . Q, . ,, . 1 . . . , . , 1 . , 1 . . , . 1 J ' ' 1 , , 1 - 1 1 - ,l a 1 . . , . 1

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