DEVINE SPIRIT
"Paddy Cottrell, the new scout for the New York Yankees, was talking about 'Yankee spirit.'
'I had my most memorable lesson in Yankee spirit just before Joe Devine died,' Paddy recalled. 'I had been appointed assistant to Joe. A few days before he passed away he called me in. Despite his condition, he wanted me to take notes on the hitting style of Jim Rivera, the Seattle outfielder who had been bought in the last weeks of the season by the Chicago White Sox. Joe thought Rivera might be brought up and put into the lineup by the Sox, and would be dangerous for Yankee pitchers who were fighting for the pennant. As it happens, Rivera wasn't used, but I still have these notes he gave me. Joe Devine was thinking Yankee to the last."
-Art Rosenbaum in the San Francisco Chronicle (Baseball Digest, March1952)
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