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Posted By: Bob

Hooks Wiltse was coaching first from all accounts I have ever heard. Matty was in the dugout and lied to protect his teammate by saying he saw Merkle touch second and he was absolutely positive of it. The Christian Gentleman was trying to help out and a teammate but the guy who wouldn't even grant interviews to reporters who he believed were cheating on their wives told a fib this time.
Blameless in this whole mess was John McGraw. He KNEW that this exact same play had occurred weeks before and Evers had pulled the same act and appealed it to the commissioner only to see it rejected and it was widely reported in the New York papers so Muggsy should have advised his players of it or at least told them about it...