Baseball player and manager Hugh Ambrose Jennings was the kind of
colorful personality who inspired nicknames. Sportswriters called
him ?Ee-yah? for his famous coaching box cry and ?Hustling Hughey?
for his style of play. But to the nearly 100 other men from
northeast Pennsylvania who followed Jennings from the coal mines to
the major leagues, he was known as ?Big Daddy, ? not for his
physical stature but for his iconic status to men desperate to
escape the mines. The son of an immigrant coal miner from Pittston,
Pennsylvania, Jennings himself became a miner at the ripe old age
of 11 or 12. He eventually became a mule driver, earning $1.10 per
day and dreaming of getting $5 per day for playing baseball on
Saturday afternoons. From the rough-and-tumble world of semi-pro
baseball to the major leagues, Jennings was driven to succeed and
fearless in his pursuit of his dream. He joined the Baltimore
Orioles in 1894 and went on to become manager of the Detroit Tigers
during Ty Cobb's heyday. Jennings? story is emblematic of how the
national pastime and the American dream came together for a
generation of ballplayers in the early 20th century.
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