"The gen. public that go out to the baseball park and set through the games
probably think they see everything that is going on on the field but they's
a lot of stuff that goes on on the baseball field that the gen. public
don't see and don't know nothing about and I refer to what we baseball boys
calls inside baseball.

"No one is in a better position to know all about inside baseball then a
man like I who have been a pitcher in the big league because it is the
pitchers that has to do most of the thinking and pull off the smart plays
that is what wins ball games. For inst. I will write down about a little
incidents that come off one time 2 yrs. ago when the Boston club was
playing against the Chicago White Sox where I was one of the stars when
the U. S. went into the war and then I dropped baseball and signed up a
contract with Uncle Sam to play for my country in the big game against the
Kaiser of Germany. This day I refer to I was in there giveing them the best
I had but we was in a tight game because the boys was not hitting behind me
though Carl Mays that was pitching for the Boston club didn't have nothing
on the ball only the cover and after the ball left his hand you could have
ran in the club house and changed your undershirt and still be back in time
to swing when the ball got up there.

"Well it come along the 9th. inning and we was tied up with the score 2 and
2 and I had Larry Gardner swinging like a hammock all day but this time he
hit a fly ball that either Weaver or Jackson ought to of caught in a hollow
tooth but they both layed down and died on it and Gardner got on second
base. Well they was 2 men out and Hoblitzel was the next man up and the
next man after he was Scott their shortstop that couldn't take the ball
in his hand and make a base hit off a man like I so instead of me giveing
Hobby a ball to hit I walked him as we call it and then of course it was