FOULED OUT OF THE BOX
"In 1936 while managing the St. Paul Saints, the late Gabby Street made one of the oddest 'strategic' moves in organized baseball. Carl Fischer, an eccentric left-hander, was pitching for St. Paul. The Milwaukee Brewers had scored a few runs in the first inning and had runners on first and second. Eddie Hope, the light hitting Brewer infielder, lined a foul ball to left. Street rushed from the dugout, called time and walked to the mound. He asked Fischer for the ball and then called in a relief pitcher.
'I guess this is the first time in history a pitcher was yanked after a batter hit a foul ball,' Street explained later. 'But when a hitter like Hope can hit such a loud foul I was convinced Fischer didn't have a thing. So, I took him out.'"
-Sam Levy in the Milwaukee Journal (Baseball Digest, April 1951)
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