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

As the years went by, the smartest man on the club was the “bonehead,” Mr. Merkle. McGraw never consulted anybody except Merkle on a question of strategy or something of that sort. He never asked Matty, he never asked me. He’d say, “Fred, what do you think of this?” The bonehead! What a misnomer! One of the smartest men in baseball, Fred Merkle.