When Dykes had finished nam his key "man" I discovered that he had listed no fewer than nine, and it was easy to see that if something happened to these nine men simultaneously it would make it pretty tough for the Yankees. Perhaps it was this sort of thing that Jimmy Foxx had in mind when, from Florida recently, he said the other American League teams should be ashamed of being afraid of the Yankees and conceding the pennant to them even before the season opened.—United
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