Playing Years
Born in Philadelphia, where he grew up idolizing Athletics manager Connie Mack, McCarthy was among a handful of successful major league managers who had never played in the majors. After attending Niagara University, he had a 15-year minor league career from 1907 to 1921, primarily as a second baseman with Toledo, Buffalo and Louisville. He was briefly a member of Brooklyn's Federal League team in 1916, but the league, then considered a third major league, folded before he could play a game with them.
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Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or years:
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—John Wesley (1703–1791)