Last week Samuel Breadon, owner of the world's champion St. Louis baseball "Cardinals," traded Rogers Hornsby, player-manager, called "the greatest batter in baseball" to the New York Giants for Frank Frisch, the second baseman, and a right-handed pitcher named James Ring.
By his own stamina and generalship, Hornsby made an unremarkable team into a great one. Twenty pounds under weight and wearing a brace, he performed prodigies in the world series; steeples rocked, bands played, firecrackers exploded and mounted policemen kept back the crowds when he went home to St. Louis. For...
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