HANDING HIM A LESSON
"Those who think Eddie Sawyer of the Phils is an easy-going individual might be interested in this story:
When he last bossed the Phils in 1952, the former Ithaca College professor (he also holds a Phi Beta Kappa key) admits he bore down on a certain player who was violating training rules.
'One night we had it out in the clubhouse after everybody had gone,' Sawyer relates. 'I whipped this fellow and whipped him good. All he could understand then was fear. I made him fearful.
'Nobody saw this fight except the player, myself and a clubhouse attendant. The man I had a fight with turned out to be a pretty good ball player.' "
-Les Biederman, The Pittsburgh Press (Baseball Digest, August 1959)
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