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...this time, "Reluctant Rupert" had become a celebrity. The entire Corn Belt, which takes bulls seriously, was eager for news about him. The Foxes took Rupert to the Stange Memorial Veterinary Clinic at Iowa State College. There, Dr. Mack Emmerson transplanted the pituitary gland from the skull of another bull to Rupert's flank. After the gland had had time to work, Rupert was given the heifer test again. Still no calves...
...shortstop for Gloucester High, Stuffy blocked enough grounders and broke up enough ball games with his bat to get himself taken on by Haverhill of the New England League. Billy Madden, who managed the Beverly team and also scouted for Connie Mack, was so impressed by young McInnis' hitting ability that he persuaded him to join with Beverly. "My association with Harvard started then," says Stuffy. "The 1907 Beverly club had Eddic Grant, Bill Matthews, and Eddic Loughlin, all students at Harvard Law School...
Stuffy didn't stay long at Beverly. In 1908, Madden signed him for Connic Mack, and the following spring, Stuffy, a beardless youth of 19, was heading south for New Orlcans with the Athletics. This was the start of an 18-year major league career that was to see Stuffy get over 2000 hits, make over 16,000 put-outs, slip below 300 only once, go through 119 games at first base without an error (1921-22), and appear in World Series lineups for three different teams, the Athletics, Red Sox, and Pirates...
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...
Baseball's spindly, high-collared Connie Mack, celebrating his 86th birthday in Philadelphia, blew out a single candle, sliced a 50-lb. cake, offered a generous birthday wish: "I really want to give Philadelphia fans a championship team before my brains wear...