June 4, 1916 - The Washington Post- CHANGES IN BASEBALL OF RAPID-FIRE ORDER
CHANGES IN BASEBALL OF RAPID-FIRE ORDER
Elberfeld Unable to Recognize Many Players on Yanks He Once Managed.
"It doesn' take long to change the entire personnel of a ball club." mused "Kid" Elberfeld, once manager of the Yankees, as he gazed in the direction of the Yanks' bench just before his Chattanooga team faced "Bill" Donovan's crowd in the Tennessee city not long ago. "It wasn't so many years ago that I was with this club, first as a player and later as a manager," continued the "Kid," "but all the old boys who worked with me or for me have passed along. Some are out of baseball entirely and some in the minor leagues. Only two or three are in the majors, yet I had several youngsters in those days. Donovan tells me that he has thirty players here, and I look in vain for some one whom I knew as a Yankee. Of course, Donovan, Farrell, Schaefer and Kelly are old friends, but the men who do the playing are mostly strangers. Time surely flies and makes a lot of changes in baseball."
Elberfeld Unable to Recognize Many Players on Yanks He Once Managed.
"It doesn' take long to change the entire personnel of a ball club." mused "Kid" Elberfeld, once manager of the Yankees, as he gazed in the direction of the Yanks' bench just before his Chattanooga team faced "Bill" Donovan's crowd in the Tennessee city not long ago. "It wasn't so many years ago that I was with this club, first as a player and later as a manager," continued the "Kid," "but all the old boys who worked with me or for me have passed along. Some are out of baseball entirely and some in the minor leagues. Only two or three are in the majors, yet I had several youngsters in those days. Donovan tells me that he has thirty players here, and I look in vain for some one whom I knew as a Yankee. Of course, Donovan, Farrell, Schaefer and Kelly are old friends, but the men who do the playing are mostly strangers. Time surely flies and makes a lot of changes in baseball."