European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes monday june 20, 1977 if offered a Job tomorrow i d take it yesterday Robby anxious for another try As manager Cleveland a Frank Robinson Whoso Stormy reign As baseball s first Black manager came to an end on a quiet sunday morning wants to manage again. It was a Tough two plus years but it been enjoyable Robinson said sunday after he was fired by the Cleveland Indi ans. The toughest thing about being manager probably is walking away from it. The Way i feel about it now if they other teams offered me a Job tomorrow i d have taken it Robinson s Job has been rumoured to Bein jeopardy most of the season with the indians faltering on the Field and bickering in the seemed to be some divisiveness Down in the said Ted Bonda the team president. The time had come fora airing of Cleveland s problems in Public was typical of the additional Burden facing the Robinson regime. From the be ginning the first Black Man to manage and now be fired by a major league club was under the Microscope. Robinson 41, was in trouble at the end of the 1976 season but survived when Bonda won an apparent Power struggle with Gen eral manager that time. Robinson said when you become a manager you know you re prob ably going to be fired eventually. If i go Iwon t feel like i be failed because t gave it everything i be got. I la just go Home and play some Tennis and relax for was the Calm Center of a bar rage of publicity when in october 1974, he became the first Man of his race to be made a big league manager. His first Spring training and season As a manager was almost a circus As microphones an cameras were constantly stuck in his face. A spectacular player throughout his 21seasons As a major leaguer Robinson added to the event by blasting a game win Ning Homer in his first of bal As a player manager and becoming embroiled in yank track team opens european tour in Italy Turin. Italy a a Young and inexperienced american track and Field team opens its controversial european tour against Italy and Brilain in this North ital Ian Auto capital with widespread criticism be cause the team lacked most of the . Stars the Amateur athletic Union has managed in a last minute Effort to talk Star sprinter Steve Williams and world High jump record Holder Dwight stones into taking part in the meet As unofficial americans will beat both Britain and said i Virno Nebiolo president of Frazier stars in Hanau track 1ianau, Germany Jeffery Frazier on three events in the Hanau Community track and Field meet Here took the 1500, 3000 and 5000 meter winners were Charles Jones in the 100 and 200 meters. Darryl Brown inthe 200-meter Law hurdles and the 400 inter mediate hurdles and Ernest Mack in Thelong jump and triple jump. Gina Jackson Wun the Only event for women the 60-meter dash the first and second place finishers qualify for the v corps Eastern regional meet july 910 in Hanau. Meters t Jackson 7 s i odometers i Charles Jones. 10 9 200meters 1.c Jones. 210 400meters i Albert Jones. Snow Tuo meters 1. of t odometers i Soo meters i. Frailer to 11 b to meter High hurdles i. William Williams a meter Low hurdles i Darryl Brown. 4tjo-Meterint. Hurdles 1.Brown.70 400-meter relay. 1. James Ard. Teny Vart rough Michael Eleele. Albert Jonev 4s.z Imo meter relay i. Benjamm Sterling. Larry Wall ers. Richard Edwards. Lawrence Vann. Pole vault-1 latvian Bushhe. Re High jump 1. Richard Edwards s.10 javelin to Larry Forbes. 131.4 Long jump i. Ernest Mack in i triple jump i Wrt 41v.1 discus i George Harns. Not. Boxing smoker scheduled Gellhausen Germany the Geln nausea Community will hold an open boxing smoker Here june 24 at 7 meet is open to anyone. Weigh ins Are set from 10 . To 2 p further information Contact Kloyd Hawkins at Geln Hauson military 23641 741. The italian federation. The aau however had promised to Send the Best possible team with some stars. We wanted them to draw Large crowds and secure a Good Gate to cover our after the Turin meet the americans will face West Germany and then the soviet Union in the next couple of weeks. Bot Italy and West Germany were said to have spent around $70,000 to stage the events. We hate to Sec the top americans tour ing Europe in local meets with the second string competing on the official team Nebiolo said. With stones and Williams there will be a better show for their presence however reportedly Cost the italians an extra couple of thou Sand dollars. Their performances will not count in the Competition involving two athletes per the men s teams the Ameri can women will face Italy in the meet. Most of our team is Green said Tom Telles and it will pick up experience As its task grows tougher wit the germans and the russians to follow Turin. But Many of these men and women will be around for the olympics in Moscow. They Are developing talents and some will Shock the italian said his leading men were triple jumpers James Butts a Silver medallist i Montreal and Milan Tiff. Another crowd please was expected to be High jumper Franklin Jacobs. Csc baseball won lot Pel. Of much publicized verbal Battles with umpires and one of his a slow Start his first Cleveland team came on with a Rush in the second half of the season to finish fourth in the american league East with a 7mo season Robinson s club fell one game Short of third place but finished at81-78, the first Over .500 record by the Indi ans since 1968."i was a better manager last season be cause there was less attention on me and iwas Able to do some managing Robinson said during Spring training in 1177. It was Nice not to trip Over somebody with a camera or notepad every time i took Astep. That first year was brutal but now i m just another played Little in 1976, hitting .224 with three homers and 11 runs hatted in and announced his retirement As a player at the end of the ended a career which included dozens of milestones. Among them winning the National league Rookie of the year award in 1956.hitting 30 or More homers 11 times. Winning the batting triple Crown with Baltimore in 1966.appearing in five world series four with the orioles and one with the selected for 11 All Star games six with Cincinnati four with Baltimore and one with California. Being the Only player Ever to win mos valuable player awards in both leagues. When Robinson took his historic Posi Tion he said i be never looked at an individual or judged an individual by the colorow his skin and i m not going to Start doing that now. I m too old for that kind of Only Way to judge an individual is by his ability and his desire to play the game he said. During his major league career Robin son was considered an outspoken and Vola tile Leader everywhere he went. Ironically the major criticism of Robinson As a Man Ager was his failure to provide such leadership from the Bench. Lack Leader on Reid right now we Don t have a real Leader on the held he said recently. But All ican do is give these Guys the Ball and let them play. I can t throw it for the pitchers and i can t swing the Bat for the criticism of Robinson was that he was often too candid and controversial freely discussing his opinions with report ers on numerous his first two years in Cleveland Robinson was sometimes testy and difficult to approach for writers. He also was argumentative with umpires to the Point where it rubbed off on his players and led Frank Robinson. Tough to walk away to a run in that caused the american league to keep one quartet of Umpire from working indians games the second half of the 1976 vowed to change All that in the 1977 season and despite the team s Stum bling Start and the controversy surround ing it he was More accessible for write Sand kept a much lower profile on the Field. Calls himself unpredictable he said his style As a manager developed More during his second season adding i Don t have set patterns. I m very unpredictable. I try and do what i think is Best in that situation on that Day. If i think a specific left handed hitter can help against a left handed Pitcher i la use Don t believe in a manager trying to Mold his players into the Type of team that the manager would like he added. I try to manage the Talent that i have. I try to adapt to the 25 players that make up the dub instead of adapting them to my however Robinson found it difficult Roget used to the idea his players could not do the same things he did As a player Al though realizing he was a superstar Talent. That s probably the toughest thing to get used to knowing that i can t expect my players to be Able to do things the Way i did them he said Early in his managerial career. But it gets easier after a Cisar Navarro Nab pin titles in v corps women s Reg Onas Rantem Ottburg if a run set win rninv4lfl Sven Twatt Zatir life if tsp a 1 1 Tuut .4ii ,3tf .273 .1m Sui my to Sulu Arfken. Ppd in go it a Ppd. A
