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	The Advocate - 'Reckless' Richards cracks open O's coffers
		In seven years with the Orioles, Paul Richards made the largest trade in baseball history, signed Brooks Robinson, invented the oversized catcher's mitt and preached a pitching-and-defense philosophy that defined the Orioles for years after he was gone.
		Richards wasted piles of money on prospects who failed to blossom, but he also "opened the keys to the cash box, which had to happen if we were ever going to compete," said Joe Hamper, an accountant who joined the Orioles' front office in 1954 and stayed for 37 years, retiring as chief financial officer.
		Richards was a tall Texan who had batted.227 over parts of eight seasons as a backup catcher in the majors.
	www.stamfordadvocate.com /sports/baseball/bal-sp.os5029oct29,0,2554869.story (754 words)

	Minor League Baseball: History: Top 100 Teams
		Richards began his pro career as an infielder in 1926 and became a catcher in 1930 at Macon.
		Richards was the second-string catcher for New York in 1933-34 and was a member of the Giants’ championship team in 1933 although he didn’t play in the World Series.
		Richards remained with Houston until June, 1966 when he was appointed director of personnel and vice president of operations of the Atlanta Braves.
	www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=26 (3212 words)

	Camera Story (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richards got home he told his wife what he found and told her that he would take care of it when he got back from Chicago, but then looked in the bag, saw our business cards and remembered seeing our card and thought I need to find these kids now.
		Richards kind (understatement of a word) enough to return the camera bag, he was going to be in the same city and even at the same game that we were going to be at with no change of plans.
		Richards did for us was not only selfless but, at least for myself, gave me faith that good people are still and always have been out there and that not all men are inherently evil.
	www.baseballadventure2004.com.cob-web.org:8888 /photo5.html (806 words)

	Baseball Quotes - The Game (Appreciation, description)
		Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.
		Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances.
		Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
	www.peterga.com /baseball/quotes/the_game.htm (1491 words)

	Desperate Measures
		She knew Paul was frequently grounded and thought that was a Richards family matter.
		But she said she became alarmed after Karen Richards "told me that her last resort with Paul was to take him to a place where three men come in the middle of the night, and if he won't go, they'll put him in a straitjacket.
		Paul said his parents gave him another chance a few weeks later -- stay with the program until he "graduated" in August and he would be welcomed home and given a chance to go to college.
	www.denver-rmn.com /desperate/site-desperate/day3/day3-paul.htm (2361 words)

	In Memory: Jim Umbricht - Baseball Fever
		A seasoned baseball observer, Richards took a liking to Umbricht right away which is why he asked the former Bulldog to play golf with him every afternoon during spring training.
		On the golf course they talked baseball, teacher and student, with Richards imparting knowledge of his lengthy career in the majors as a player, manager and front office administrator.
		Richards also knew he had a player with the Houston team who would work harder than the rest.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=6630 (853 words)

	BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: Sun Spot: Orioles at 50 : ‘Reckless’ Richards cracks open O’s coffers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Paul Richards' success in turning around the pitching staffs in his managerial stints in Chicago and Baltimore was amazing.
		Richards certainly had a whole lot to do with it, since he was the Houston GM from 1961 (it was he who handled their expansion draft choices) until 1965.
		And Richards did a great job (as he had done previously in Chicago and Baltimore) of influencing his pitchers to throw strikes; the Colts/Astros were frequently among the best teams in baseball at not allowing walks.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/newsstand/discussion/sun_spot_orioles_at_50_reckless_richards_cracks_open_os_coffers (1297 words)

	Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : Random Game Callback, May 16, 1951
		The White Sox were skippered in 1951 by Paul Richards, who was in charge of a major league team for the first time.
		Richards would go on to manage for 12 seasons with one of the higher profiles ever attained by someone whose teams never finished in first place.
		With one out, Paul Lehner singled and Minnie Miñoso (acquired at the end of April from Cleveland as part of a three-way deal that saw Gus Zernial sent to Philadelphia) followed with a walk.
	griddle.baseballtoaster.com /archives/368436.html (772 words)

	The Ballplayers - Paul Richards 1908 \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Paul Richards neither led a team to a pennant as a field manager nor presided over a winner as a general manager.
		The Braves had gone south, from Milwaukee to Atlanta, and Richards, who had led the old Crackers to glory, was deemed the man to rejuvenate the Braves in their new setting as vice president for baseball operations.
		It was as close as Richards came to a pennant, and he left Atlanta and was out of baseball for the first time in 45 years.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /ballplayers/player.php?name=Paul_Richards_1908 (1537 words)

	Paul Richards (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Rapier Richards (November 21, 1908 — May 4, 1986) was an American player, manager, scout and executive in Major League Baseball.
		The following year, Richards was hired as Director of Player Personnel by the Atlanta Braves – returning to the city where he excelled as a minor league catcher and player-manager for the Southern Association's Atlanta Crackers from 1938-42.
		But that team was swept by the eventual world champion "Miracle Mets" in the first National League Championship Series ever played, and the Braves failed to contend in 1970 and 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Richards_(baseball) (585 words)

	The Business of Baseball :: The Tal Smith Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Be it assistant GM to Gabe Paul, the development of the Astrodome, General Manager of the Astros, the development of Minute Maid Park, President of Baseball Operations, as well as, contract negotiations and the salary arbitration process, Smith has touched on it all.
		Paul Richards came in and a lot of the people he had been associated with.
		He said that Paul [Richards] is the GM and he couldn't do anything about that.
	www.businessofbaseball.com /smith_interview.htm (7190 words)

	The Baseball Cube - Baseball Statistics, Draft and Minor Leagues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I had basically planned this type of site for baseball but hockey is much easier and its a sport that is even more in my blood than baseball, if that's possible.
		The Athletics had a jersey of his hanging near their dugout and everyone else in Major League Baseball is weighing on the pitcher who always had a smile.
		Not only is there a baseball player on the plane, its a Yankees pitcher, at a time when the Yankees are already monopolizing news headlines with the rumored firing of Joe Torre and hiring of Lou Piniella.
	www.thebaseballcube.com /cards/R/paul-richards.shtml (2633 words)

	American Heroes
		Richards moved on to Baltimore Orioles, managing them until 1961, when he became the first general manager of the Houston Colts.
		In 1966, Richards was off to the Atlanta Braves and was vice president of baseball operations until 1973.
		Richards was a great innovator and invented the pitching machine and the big catcher's mitt used to catch knuckle balls.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=23 (1226 words)

	Paul Richards Books on Amazon.com
		Paul Richards made his Major League debut on 04-17-1932 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		Baseball Almanac is pleased to present all the Paul Richards books currently listed on Amazon.com - the leading providing of online Paul Richards books.
		Did you know that Baseball Almanac is attempting to catalog every ballplayer who has appeared on a Baseball Digest Cover since the magazine was first published in August 1942 when major league games were confined to the eastern and midwestern regions of the country?
	www.baseball-almanac.com /books/index.php?p=richapa01 (341 words)

	Milford man helps save baseball journey
		There was a message from Paul Richards, 37, of Milford, saying he had found their camera bag.
		Richards, who has Reds weekend season tickets, found the camera bag sitting in the parking lot and found the men's e-mail addresses inside.
		Richards returned the camera bag and photo equipment to the baseball adventurers Tuesday night at a Chicago White Sox game.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/06/09/loc_baseballtrip09.html (378 words)

	The End of Baseball As We Knew It - The Players Union 1960-81
		By the time this review is published, the 2002 major-league baseball season may have ended prematurely, the victim of a labor dispute between millionaire players and billionaire owners.
		Korr puts labor issues and baseball in perspective with this history of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1960 to 1981, when the union succeeded in overturning the century-old "reserve" clause, which bound a player to his original team for life.
		From the time players were in the minor leagues, they knew they were part of a system where it made little sense to challenge the power of their clubs and even less to think about organizing to challenge the system itself.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /books/the_end_of_baseball_as_we_knew_it.shtml (1570 words)

	A feast of data, with a slight glaze - The Boston Globe
		The subject is still baseball, which remains what it has always been: the greatest game ever to spring from the mind of mortal man. But the approach is a bit different.
		''Baseball Between The Numbers" comes to us courtesy of ''Baseball Prospectus," a consortium of numbers-oriented baseball scholars whose website, www.baseballprospectus.com, is regarded as must daily reading by the growing number of people who cannot ever delve deeply enough into the intricacies of baseball.
		We will never know the play-by-play of every major league baseball game played in 1906, for example, but one hundred years later, every pitch in every game is charted.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2006/05/14/a_feast_of_data_with_a_slight_glaze (1121 words)

	Juggling The Lineup Baseball Digest - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richards' scheme was inspired by the opportunity it created of being able to bring an appropriate pinch-hitter up to the plate if the Orioles had a scoring chance in the first inning.
		Richards then restored orderly procedure by sending Jim Busby to center field and Billy Gardner to second base.
		Like La Russa, Richards and Williams, a few other similarly imaginative managers have occasionally taken an innovative approach in attempts to gain an edge by manipulation of their lineups either before or during a game.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_1_60/ai_67831634 (903 words)

	TIME.com: Unorthodox Manager -- Jun. 4, 1951 -- Page 1
		Catcher Richards used to blister the ball right back if he thought they were not trying hard enough, and he still growls when he thinks of baseball's casual losers: "They blow a game and they're not even mad about it." When the White Sox lose, Freshman Manager Richards implies, someone had better show some indignation.
		Richards explains the switch, which is no novelty in sandlot ball but a rarity in the big leagues, with a characteristic comment: "I play the percentage if it will win a ball game."
		Richards' hustling White Sox, a tooth and nail team, is already surefire at the gate (home attendance is up 29%).
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,858120,00.html (842 words)

	'Reckless' Richards cracks open O's coffers - Orlando Sentinel :
		Richards was relying on the advice of his private scouts, who accompanied him from job to job, rather than on the Orioles' respected scouting department headed by Jim McLaughlin, who had come with the franchise from St. Louis.
		The cagey Richards signed college star Tom Borland to a large bonus, then had second thoughts and pitched Borland under a different name in the minors, trying to get around the rule.
		According to Hamper, Richards charged the rental of a limousine to the club when he attended the 1955 NFL championship game in Los Angeles.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /bal-sp.os5029oct29,0,4767521.story?page=2 (690 words)

	2003 Veterans Committee Election Results
		In order to be elected, eligible candidates were required to garner at least 75% of the votes on ballots cast.
		With 81 ballots cast, candidates needed 61 or more votes to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
		With 79 ballots cast, candidates needed 60 or more votes to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
	baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/veterans/2003/election.htm (145 words)

	Baseball Managers Encyclopedia Article @ Pitched.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fernandina Beach Babe Ruth will accept applications for softball and baseball managers and coaches Monday through Jan. 16.
		If a manager does not meet these criteria but is accurately described by any of the subcategories for minor league, Negro League, Japanese, Olympic or college baseball, or for specific major league teams, please put them in whichever one or more categories apply.
		Please do not also put them in the main category; their reference in the sub-category is sufficient.
	www.pitched.org /encyclopedia/Category:Baseball_managers (307 words)

	1953 Bowman Color # 39 Paul Richards MGR (White Sox) Baseball Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Below are some tidbits on baseball and sportscard collecting along with a listing of the All-Time and Active Leaders in a selected statistical cateogry.
		Post Cereal and Jello printed baseball cards on the backs of their boxes from 1961 to 1963 in both U.S. and Canada.
		The 1963 Fleer Baseball Cards were intended to be issued in multiple series, but Fleer was run out of business shortly after the first series was released when Topps sued Fleer.
	baseball-cards.com /vintage/cards/1953-bowman-color-paul-richards.shtml (1178 words)

	1953 Bowman Color # 39 Paul Richards MGR (White Sox) Baseball Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Baseball card companies, trying to remain profitable, started introducing improvements in card quality and also measures to prevent counterfeiting.
		Now baseball cards have come full circle and in 2006 there are only two companies marketing and selling baseball cards: Topps and Upper Deck.
		The 1963 Fleer Baseball 67 card set was an attempt by the Fleer Company to break the Topps monopoly on Bubble Gum Cards.
	www.baseball-cards.com /vintage/cards/1953-bowman-color-paul-richards.shtml (1178 words)

	BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: Rolen simply is the best player in baseball today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thanks to the DH Earl mixed and matched since he did not clutter up his roster with pitchers who could only an inning on every other day except when their kids are having a dance recital or the moons of Jupiter are in alignment.
		I remember my baseball coach in middle school telling us that the guy who had been clocked as the fastest all-time from the batter's box to first was Mickey Mantle.
		Mickey Mantle may not have been able to swat baseballs 700 feet while running to first base in two-tenths of a second, but nobody would bother to tell those stories in the first place if there weren’t a kernel of truth to them.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/newsstand/discussion/rolen_simply_is_the_best_player_in_baseball_today (10917 words)

	All-Baseball.com, part of MVN: The GM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of all the wings of the Baseball Hall of Fame, the General Manager’s area might be the one in most dire need of some new additions.
		When I’d played with Baltimore, Paul Richards and Eddie Robinson were there, and they’d since moved on to the Astros.
		They’re baseball players, but they’re still employees of a company, and I think companies basically have an obligation to take care of their employees.
	www.all-baseball.com /archives/020154.html (4116 words)

	Is Bonds done? - Baseball Fever
		Although IMO he will be back sometime this season, it will not suprise me by the tone in his voice that he would just retire....
		Like Baseball Guru said, he sounded dejected and down, and even in his state, he lashes out at the media.
		So he has to use steroids to stay up, but if he gets caught everything he's done in the last 5 years is wiped clean.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=25972&page=5 (1385 words)

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