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Stuffy had his greatest years with the Athletics as first baseman in Connie Mack's $100,000 infield. Frank (Home Run) Baker, Jack Barry, and Eddic Collins were the other members of the famous group. These men carried the A's to world championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913. A yellowing newsclipping dated August 5, 1912, tells how Stuffy helped make the team click...
...call was for battery men, and McInnis spent most of the afternoon charting the pitcher's role in infield plays. In between, he dodged charging sprinters, blinked at photographers' flash bulbs, and winced at explosions from a track starter...
Stuffy is a smallish gray-haired man who played first base when Eddie Collins was at second, Jack Barry at short, and Home Run Baker was on third. He learned his baseball as part of the greatest infield of an era, and from the way he talked, it second he had learned it well. As part of his talk, Mcinnis demonstrated a foolproof method of running down erring base runners with just two pegs. Nobody had ever seen it before; but this spring everybody who even sees the Sands Point Tigers play will...
Above all else, Stuffy Mcinnis emphasized that the secret of good defensive play is teamwork, and that the pivot of and infield is its first baseman. His part of the program was purely defensive baseball, no Mcinnis' theories on how to hit a baseball will have to wait until he holds his first Harvard practice session in March...
With Frank "Home Run' Baker, jack Barry, and Eddie Collins, he was a member of the fabled $100,000 infield--the highest paid four-man unit in baseball at that time. They sparked the Athletics to three World Championships before the Braves "Miracle Team" dumped them in 1914. The group was broken up after that season, and McInnis came to Boston to aid the Red Sox to their 1918 championship...