I was reading the poll at this site that asked whether you would rather have Ozzie or Dusty as manager. As I was reading, I was thinking how I don't recall hearing or reading from broadcasters/writers that Ozzie was an intelligent player. When I watched him play, I watched very passively but I do remember that he was fooled by the hidden ball trick. He fell for it three times in his career. Two of the three were in the same season. This points to a unintelligent or at least a distracted player. 6-23-89 - Greg Brock, 1B MIL catches him in the 9th. 8-5-89 - Dave Bergman, 1B DET catches him in the 7th. 5-13-91 - Steve Lyons, 2B BOS catches him in the 4th. Obviously, the Sox thought he was intelligent or they would have never hired him as their manager. I know that he won the World Series, but he definitely had some horses that helped in that regard. Granted he still had to manage those horses. So was Ozzie an intelligent player?