“You know, this team … it all flows from me,” he told Ward. “I’m the straw that stirs the drink. It all comes back to me. Maybe I should say me and Munson … but really he doesn’t enter into it … I’ve overheard him talking about me … I’ll hear him telling some other writer that he wants it to be known that he’s the captain of the team … And when anybody knocks me, he’ll laugh real loud so I can hear it … I’m a leader, and I can’t lie down … but ‘leader’ isn’t the right word … it’s a matter of PRESENCE … Let me put it this way: No team I am on will ever be humiliated the way the Yankees were by
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