The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

Del Baker was our manager that year. Cochrane had been let go in 1938. Baker, remember, had been my manager with Beaumont in the Texas League back in 1932. Del’s claim to fame was that he was an expert sign stealer. I mean he could stand on the third-base coaching lines and read a catcher’s signs or pick up on a pitcher’s mannerisms and let you know in advance what