1950 Yankee of the Past: Earle Combs

FROM MAIL CARRIER TO WAITER
"'Before I came up to the Yankees,' recalls Coach Earle Combs of the Boston Red Sox, 'I was rated a pretty good base stealer. When I reported to Miller Huggins, Yankee manager, he had a little talk with me, saying, 'I understand you're a great base stealer.'
'Rather proud he had heard about that phase of my ability, I said very enthusiastically, 'Yes, Mister Huggins, they call me the mail carrier down in Louisville.'
'I can see Hug smile roguishly as he said, 'Well, up here they'll just call you the waiter. We have a couple of boys around here named Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel who can hit the ball into the next township. Once you get on base, all you'll have to do is wait for them to hit you in!''"

-John Drohan in the Boston Traveler (Baseball Digest, October 1950)