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To add to what Hooper said about the Yankees I get a lot of these stories from my Dad who is in his eighties now and was always a big baseball fan. Anyway my Dad used to work in Boston in the late 1940's and he would get his haircut at a Barber shop in the Hotel Kenmore where a lot of the baseball teams would stay when they came into Boston to play the Sox and the Braves. The barber knew and cut hair for a lot of the players and he had a million great stories that he could tell.
The barber basically said that the Yankees were given good money to eat well, dress well, stay well groomed etc.. A lot of the shenanigans that the other players used to pull were not tolerated, that's just the way the Yankee organization wanted things to be. At the other end of the spectrum, the team he said was the craziest was the St Louis Cardinals with Dizzy and Daffy Dean and the gashouse gang. He said some of those guys just farm boys from the deep south could barely read or write and that was not uncommon for those days. They would be up all night raising hell walking around the halls of the hotel drunk, playing the juice harp and having a good ole time.
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