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Eddie Joost recalls how Connie Mack revived his big league career; talented, but outspoken, shortstop struggled in making the grade before Hall of Fame manager gave him a second chance. (Turn Back The Clock).(Interview)
EDDIE JOOST HAD A REPUTATION TWO OF them, really; one got tacked on him and one he earned. Both of them followed him all the days of his baseball life--until he met Connie Mack.
The rap he earned was with his mouth, telling managers bluntly what he thought. In today's world, players with long-term guaranteed contracts paying ten times the manager's salary, can sound off and get away with it. But in the 1930s and 1940s, it meant a ticket to the bush leagues.
A product of the Recreation Park leagues in San Francisco that sent dozens of players to the big leagues, Eddie Joost was still in high school when Hall of Fame shortstop Bobby Wallace recommended him ...
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