MANAGING A BASEBALL TEAM
Br JOHN B. POSTER
Keeping Up Team Spirit |
Chapter 8
It la the duty of the manager toi
be of aa much help as possible to
the captain in keeping up the epirlta
of the playera. Thia, of courae. Is
where the manager and the captain
?are not the same person.
? The boy who aspires to be the
manager of his team must not think)
that because It is a boy's team it Is j
different in many of Its aspects from
a man's team. Boys like a word of
good cheer and encouragement as
much as men like it. Some playera |
go along twice as well If they have(
encouragement. When a boy makes!
a particularly good hit. or catch. he>
likes to think that others have!
noticed it and aometimes it takes j
the discrimination of other* to note
when a good play haa been made,
becauae aome boys are so diffident
that they say little about them
selves. Roys like a word of
praise now and then.
The manager of the team ahoul<L
not criticise the players when there
is a captain. L*et all the crlticiam
come from one source and when
there is a coach, as happens now and
then for aome teams of boys, the
coach will probably do the criticis
ing for everybody. Not even the
captain will care to undertake much,
of It.
Hhlrkorw Destroy Team Hpirit |
If It is the duty of the manager to ;
aee that the playera are notified to,
appear, presuming of course that
manager and the captain are both
one. It is also the duty of the man->
ager to find out why tbey do not |
appear. If they miss their club ap-;
must be co-operative and everybody
must do his beat If the team la to be
a success on the field. If aome
playera begin to ahirk meetlnga. and 1
drill and things of that kind the
other players will voice their dia
aatlafactlon and the team make lit
tle headway agalnat lta baaeball
rivals.
The manager of the team alao
aelecta umpires. He may co-oper
ate with the captain In that respect
but usually the captain Jets the man
ager have the final decision in order
that the other team may not say that
the captain has too much influence
with the umpire. In general when
selecting an umpire for a game It la
advisable to name some ohe who
is older than the boys who are play
ing, and If possible select one who
has had experience.
There U as much knaok In han
dling a game properly by an umpire
as there is in pitching one well. An
umpire who is alert and quick on
his feet, who is "on top of the
plays" and who knows right where
to put his finger on a rule when a
dispute arises, will be able to get
along In a game well. It is the
umpire who hesitates and who
seems to be debating with himself
what he should do who loses the
respect of the players so when man-j
agers are looking for umpires they
should remember that activity Is
part of the umpire's need as well as
activity on the part of the player, j
The older umpires like to handle ?
boys' games as a rule because the
youngsters will go along and do
their very beat when they have con-j
fidence In the man who Is judging
the plays. Now and then there Is
a younger umpire who can handle
the game remarkably well.
Boy*s Umpiring Amazing
Once aome years ago In Ohio the
Cleveland National League Club
was playing a game in a small city
with the club of that city. The
regular umpire mlaaed the train and
a boy only fifteen years of age who
had umpired local games very well
was asked to Judge the playa. The
big league playera laughed at him
when he came out on the field and
they saw how small he was, compar
ed with them, but he handled that
game as if he had been a major
league umpire all his life and the
Cleveland players before the contest
was over, stood at one skle and
watched him with Interest. When
the game finished the captain of
the Clevelands said that he never
had played in a game which was
better handled and nominated the
youngster for a major league um
pire but the boy's thoughts did not
Incline that way.
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By FAIR PLAY
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New York. April 18.?The Car
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Frenchman as saying?the quotation
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Tlgue?that he Is after the cham
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