View source for Clipping:Managers only look at records

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=5/3/1890
|Title=managers only look at records
|Text=<p>“'Records don't count.  We are looking for men who play for their sides, not for individual advancement,' has long been the cry of the managers of ball clubs,” said George Tebeau the other day.  “That cry don't go with me now.  The truth of the matter is that managers—that is, most of them—only look at your batting and fielding record.  They do'nt care how many times you have taken strikes while waiting to get a base on balls.  They don't look at the number of turns you make or the number of bases you have stolen.  Your hard hustling work and untiring coaching, by whi8ch you make enemies in other teams, count for nothing.  All they look at is the number of hits you made and the errors recorded against you.  Chance-taking cuts no figure with them.  They talk about it, but that is all they do.  I notice when they come to engaging players they take the men with the records.  Winning players don't count.  The record players are the ones that get the coin.</p>
|Source=The Sporting Life
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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