Clipping:Comiskey on the use of trickery
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| Date | Wednesday, May 1, 1889 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Comiskey by an unidentified Western reporter] Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a por one indeed who cannot get a safe hit once in a while. When I size up a team I do not look at the players' batting or fielding records. A winning team is made up of players who will 'turn trucks' when they see a chance—men who study points and work every advantage to win. All is fair in love and in war, and the same may be said of base ball. It is all right for a player to acquire the reputation of being a gentleman both on and off the field, but you can bet that when he stands ace-high with him opponents he is not giving his club much service. I go on a field to win a game of ball by any hook or crook. It is the game we are after, not reputations as society dudes. Now, understand me, I do not indorse leg-breakers, brutes and ruffians, who expect to win by injuring some one or indulging in profanity. There is nothing in such treatment. The St. Louis team never yet sent any players to the hospital. I do not indorse men of that kind. I instruct my men, however, to turn a trick every time they get a chance. I think that is part of the business. It is not so much in taking advantage of your opponents as it is in getting away with it. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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