Hearty
laughter greeted the innovation and echoed
through the winter, so loudly that Wrigley last month released to the press a 21 - page booklet explaining in detail the club's new philosophy (everything will be directed towards developing better players), comparing it to modern business - management ideas (IBM computers have replaced blackboards), defending it (the Cubs have not been out of the second division in 14 years despite their use «of every type of manager from inspirational leader to slave
driver»), and chiding the press for its sarcastic criticism of the experiment.