TECHNICAL K.O.
"Ball players who knew Joe McCarthy, the old Yankee manager, consider him the greatest in his line. Hank Greenberg recalls having a clubhouse boy who worked in the visiting clubhouse in Detroit. The kid eavesdropped on the opposition and reported the gossip to Greenberg.
'Somehow Joe found out about it,' says Greenberg. 'You know how sharp he was. He found out about everything. So one day he called a meeting and made me the chief topic of conversation. He told his club to knock Greenberg down. Keep knocking him down. Throw at him every time he comes up. Of course, he was only doing it so the kid would run to me with all he said. He did, too, and I was pretty uneasy at the plate all during the Yankee series.' "
-Jimmy Cannon, New York Journal-American (Baseball Digest, May 1959)
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