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"\X/ E ARE letting the grass
"* root* of baseball die," Sam
Breadon, owner and president of the
World Champion Cardinals, re
marked to me re
cently. "I am re
ferring to the mil
lions of kids from 12
to U years old who
would like to play
baseball, but who
get no help or en
couragement.
"This is true even
in the big Southwest
?from the Ozarks
to Texas?the Cot
tonwood trail that
0av? hasphall such
men as Tris Speaker, Rogers Horna
by, Dizzy and Paul Dean, Carl Hub
bell, Pepper Martin. I could name
a hundred others, including Bill
Dickey from Arkansas and Lonnie
Wameke, the tobacco chewing
champion from Mt. Ida.
"Soft ball, football and other
sports have started replacing base
ball as a recreation for the young
sters. They like baseball and would
rather play It U they only had the
ehance. This will be the big job of
any new commissioner we might
name. He must offer and work out
a plan that will give youngsters all
over the country this chance."
We have been hammering with
what punches we had left along
these same lines, receiving no sup
port except from Pittsburgh and De
troit and a few individuals like Jack
Coombs, the old Colby Carbine,
baseball coach at Duke.
Gran Hand Rica
Neglect Schoolboys
Baseball, yaair after year, has
gone to sleep in this important de
velopment?and this includes base
ball's Big Three. These three -have
run the game ably in other respects.
But they have all fallen down on
building up and bringing baseball
to the kids from the ages of 12 to
16, many, many thousands of whom
would rather play baseball than any
other game, but rarely get the
chance.
Crowded cities?lack of space?
lack of any help or cooperation on
the part of baseball leaders?these
have all figured in the decay of the
game's so-called "grass roots."
They have either forgotten all about
the kids, or else they have been too
shortsighted to face the major prob
lem of the game.
The new commissioner must be
one who can rebuild baseball for the
kids?and that will be his most im
portant job. It will be a job no one
in baseball has even approached,
barring the few places I have men
tioned.
There are millions of kids who
would like to play baseball?who
never have the chance. And any
one with a half grain of intelligence
knows that if a kid from 12 to 15
years old doesn't have the chance
to play baseball, he will never get
anywhere in the game.
Football is different. Too can take
a husky young fellow around 18 or
19 who never saw a football and turn
him into a great tackle or a great
gnard. Especially if he is big and
fast. Ton can't do that with a base
ball player?or a golfer. The great
baseball players come np as kids?
who played the game. The great
golfers came up as caddies?Hagen,
Sarazen, Ouimet, Nelson, Bogan,
Chick Evans, Goodman, McSpaden,
Johnny Farrell, Barry Cooper.
Must Start Early
Baseball and golf are games you
must learn in early youth. Football
can be picked up later on. Golf has
been given a big break. Baseball
hasn't.
' I don't care whether the new com
missioner is Jim Farley, Edgar Hoo
; ver or Ford Frick?or some one else
who has the respect of the ballplay
ers and the spectators. All I know
is that his first job will be to or
ganize a new youth movement for
baseball, which (outside of Pitts
burgh, Detroit and in certain loca
tions where the American Legion has
been an active sponsor) has been
almost completely overlooked, al
though the two big leagues have
each contributed $20,009 to this fund.
Certainly there has been no help
from the two major leagues outside
of this contribution and little help
from any of the minors.
In many big cities, it most be
admitted there is little room left
; where the kids can play?except
along cobblestone streets or those
1 haunted by automobiles. Bnt there
Is still space enough left in the Unit
ed States to give boys from 12 to
1$ a chance to play baseball. It is
still a national crime that out of
100,000 18-year-old boys called to the
draft, over 25,00$ are turned back as
physically unlit.
But it is a difficult matter to get
anyone interested in this problem.
Army and navy say they are too
busy trying to win a war to bother
about the situation. And this group
is too young for sport promoters to
'use as money-makers.
I Besides Breadon, only Larry Mac
Phail and Horace Stoneham seem
. to think that part of the duty of the
! new commissioner should be that of
trying to rebuild the waning enthu
siasm for the game in the high
schools and the colleges, and even
they can't agree as to how that
should be worked out
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