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Alan Gould
No. 9 - The March Of Mack
SOME of baseball's most dramatic and spectacular history was being made while the Athletics of pro-war vintage were the toast of Quakertown.
Walter Johnson, "Big Barney" the smoke-ball king, was in his prime, single-handed pitching Washington into contending position by marvelous mound work that earned him as high as 36 victories in the season of 1913. Johnson once hurled three successive shutouts against the New York Yankees, causing Kid Elberfeld to remark on the fourth day:
"If that blankety-hlumk from Idaho pitches again, none of us will have any job left."
