One of those starts in Sept you mention Cicotte missed Gleason wanted to give the lesser used pitchers a chance to get work in before the series and rest his aces arm when they played the A's, a team that Mack was playing mostly rookies at that time at the end of the season. Very logical and tactical managerial decision...simple easy answer...not a conspiracy to keep him from winning games (which they would have just rested him till the end of the season if they wanted to do that)
Sep 13, 1919 Chicago Tribune
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