Herb Pennock by Craig Keith;

Author:Craig, Keith;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Every team had such a mahatma, to use the nickname affixed to Brooklyn GM Branch Rickey. But not all teams had what the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Yankees had efficiently operated for years: a farm system in which to develop young players and act as a conveyor system of talent to the major league club. “As to the club’s future,” Carpenter Jr. explained, “the first thing I want to do is build up a (farm) system, for I have great faith in it.”

Carpenter needed to place his faith in the prospect of a functioning farm system. He himself commented with little intended humor, “All we (have) to start with (is) 25 second-division players and one minor leaguer named Turkey Tyson.”[15]

Carpenter’s preference for Pennock was no tightly held secret, notwithstanding Bob Jr.’s coyness about identifying his target. In fact, Pennock absconded in November 1943, to hunt in South Carolina—with Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Eddie Collins—from Yawkey’s hunting lodge in Georgetown. The Boston Globe found Herb there.

“Mr. Yawkey knows of the offer and has given me permission to join the Phillies,” Pennock went on record as saying.

In reality, Carpenter’s selection of Pennock and Pennock’s acceptance of the role was theater. Granddaughter Nancy Pennock Sager said,

When Bob Carpenter bought the team, it was on the condition that (Herb) would be general manager.

Herb and Bob were close friends. Bob’s mother and Esther were close friends, too, until the day they died. That was the only condition by which Bob’s father would buy the team for Bob. The families were longtime friends. There wasn’t any bit of “Bob Carpenter was searching for a GM.” This was the way it was going to happen.[16]

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