[Clyde's first Dodger team, 1932, made a run but fell well short.]

CLYDE SUKEFORTH: It wasn't the best Dodger club, by any means. I mean, we didn't have [Duke] Snider, we didn't have [Roy] Campanella.

[But they had Lefty O'Doul winning a batting championship and Hack Wilson with his last decent year at the bat.]

And we had Johnny --- pitching. And we had a little punch. [Tony] Cuccinello hit a long ball now and then. But Cincinnati got the best of that deal. [Babe] Herman and [Ernie] Lombardi. They could hit the ball a far piece, both of them.

[The Dodgers had some old pitchers on that team. Dazzy Vance was 40; Jack Quinn was 48.]

We signed Sloppy Thurston, Watty Clark. He was a great pitcher too. [Van Lingle] Mungo. Vance. Clark. ---. Good relief pitcher. He'd come to spring training and the first day would throw as hard as he did the last day of the season. He broke all the rules of training. Just had one of those good arms.

Max Carey was a real good manager. I guess he didn't have the talent. And I don't know why he only lasted one year [sic.]

[On the Dodger-Giant rivalry.]

We knew it existed...

Was [Max] Carey there two years? [He was.] Casey [Stengel] was his coach.

He was Casey. He couldn't be any different. Let's see, we had Otto Moore. I think Casey was there the first year.

I was thinkin' Casey took over in '33, but he didn't.

[Sukey's hitting fell off in '33 and '34. Lopez got most of the work.]

He was a fine catcher, and he hit reasonably well. I didn't get to play too much in Brooklyn. I mean, nothing steady. Just a game now and then.

[On the managers Sukey played for...]

Jack Hendricks, then Dan Howley in Cincinnati. Nothing outstanding about Hendricks, in either direction.

[Any mentors?]

I tell you, baseball has really changed...the only coach they had in Cincinnati was the old infielder, Bobby Wallace. He was the only one who knew I was on the club. He was a real good ballplayer. For the Browns. And he was the only one that would take any interest in me.

[Did the Industrial League experience really train you adequately?]

Well, we had a manager. And he had some qualifications. We had some good men. This managing's overrated, I think. Handling the players I think is quite important. I mean, you've got different personalities and some managers might do better with a certain individual, I don't know. Some of them are pretty temperamental.

Like Casey. He didn't do anything in Brooklyn. He didn't do anything in Boston. He didn't do anything with the Mets. But he was a genius with the Yankees.

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