ON THIS DAY IN EARLY DODGERS HISTORY: FEB. 14

Posted by Ron on Feb 13, 2012 | 0 comments

Sportswriter Henry Chadwick

Feb. 14, 1886:  Brooklyn baseball writer Henry Chadwick,  in his “Base Ball Book of Reference,” advises that in selecting a team captain one class of player to avoid is “ the one including those of quick temper, without self control, dictatorial in their manner, imperious in commanding, and too fond of having this and that done simply because it is their desire that it should be so.”