BATTED OUT OF THE DUGOUT
"The Yankees used to scare people. They did it deliberately. In the 1939 World Series the Yanks won the first two games in their own park and entrained for Cincinnati to resume play.
Prior to the first game there, the champs came out for batting practice. In those days they carried a special batting-practice pitcher named Paul Schreiber, now serving the Red Sox in the same role.
A lot of customers were already in their seats when the hitting started. The Redleg bench was lined with players. Schreiber pitched 16 minutes. In that time the Yanks blasted 20 home runs over the right, left and center field walls. Joe Gordon, the second baseman, took four cuts and hit four out of the park. By the time the cannonading subsided, not a Cincy player was left in the dugout."
-John P. Carmichael in the Chicago Daily News (Baseball Digest, October 1955)
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