[SelzShoes]

Unfortunatly for the Babe, he spent alot of his post-Yankee years being lied to. When he went to the Braves in 1935, it was in part because Judge Fuchs promised him the managers job; same with his coaching gig with the Dodgers a few years after that (when he would volunteer to play firstbase in exhibition games despite failing eyesight that put him in serious danger of being hit by a throw). True the Yankees did make the offer of thier top minor league club, the Newark Bears, but rightly or wrongly, Babe wanted that major league job. He is one of those men who did so much for the sport that no one gave him a shot to manage is borderline criminal.