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:
“We are playing with fire when we skip the years of three, four, and five to hurry children into being age six.... Every child has a right to his fifth year of life, his fourth year, his third year. He has a right to live each year with joy and self-fulfillment. No one should ever claim the power to make a child mortgage his today for the sake of tomorrow.”
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“That neither present time, nor years unborn
Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.”
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