Back then baseball was a religion... Leave'em alone and let them do what they need to do first. Then they come around and are cordial. Think of it as how Mike played basketball. Mike took no prisoners and did the game his way or the highway...
THE NEW D-LEAGUE
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Back then baseball was a religion... Leave'em alone and let them do what they need to do first. Then they come around and are cordial. Think of it as how Mike played basketball. Mike took no prisoners and did the game his way or the highway...
Players more or less policed themselves. If a Cardinal threw at Mays, a Giant might throw at Musial. If Gibson hit Mays, Gibson had to bat later, so a Giant might throw at him. A player might bunt down the first base line and then spike or knee the pitcher. Hitters did not have all the protective gear they wear today. It was a different game.
Ever here of the National Bowling League? It operated a couple of years in the early sixties in opposition to the PBA. A few big name bowlers participated, but most of the very best stayed with the PBA. I mention it because I read Mickey Mantle and Yoga Berra were both drafted by teams. They both owned bowling alleys, but I don't know if they participated in the league.
Never heard of that league and I was into bowling pretty heavily back when I was a late teen and early 20's. Just at the end of Dick Weber and when Earl Anthony and Mark Roth were going head on at each other. Earl the detailed, precise lefty while Mark Roth (righty) nearly threw the bowling ball down the lanes. (Many others) I made decent dough bowling money leagues in Detroit (Surrounding cities. Lincoln Park, Wyandotte,...), I used to make 40 or 50 bucks a week bowling. (I think minimum wage back then was a buck and a quarter or something like that.)
HAHA, maybe one day I will tell you how I got one of BL Taylor's son's fighting mad at me in E'Town at Dixietown lanes later on after I got out of the Army... (We were drunk and betting per throw and I got him down near three hundred bucks...before he "broke even". Won't go into details but I was in his Dad's establishment and things happened.)
My left knee injury messed me up pretty good with bowling.
Have a fine evening...