Originally Posted by
seabeachfred;733595;
Man alive, I have a contemporary on this board. That's terrific---and you're absolutely right about Kinder. He called McCarthy "an old bastard" who couldn't manage himself after that game. In fact, as I now am convinced you remember SoxSport, McCarthy lost the team and resigned in 1950 and I think Steve O'Neill took over the team that season---a season that was the last one a team hit 300 as a club.
To this very day now that I am a Red Sox fan myself, I cannot understand how he could throw Denny Galehouse in that one game do or die playoff game in 1948. Hell, he was even their third best pitcher, let alone their ace. Now don't get pissed off at me for saying this but I w as only eight years old at that time and my uncle married an Ohio girl and convinced me that if I should have an American League team it should be the Indians so they became my second team as a kid. Y es, I rooted for Gene Bearden and Lou Boudreau and Kenny Keltner to win that game. Now don't drum me out of the core because of that because I nearly yelled my voice completely hoarse in 2007 when we came from 3-1 down to beat the Indians for the AL Title.