Giants Great McGraw Dies
Long time skipper led team to 10 NL pennants in 31 years
John McGraw, the long time manager of the New York Giants and former baseball player, died last night at the age of 60 from cancer. McGraw played for Baltimore mostly from 1891 to 1902, when he became player-manager of the Giants. He held that dual role for four more years, when he retired as a player and continued to manage the Giants until two years ago when current player-manager Bill Terry took over. Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw called McGraw "the real and most authentic most remarkable man in America." Umpire Bill Klem, with whom McGraw often had furious rows, said "John McGraw off the field was a man in every old fashioned sense of the word." Klem said that McGraw was very charitable towards those in need, but shunned attention for his acts of kindness.
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