European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday october 21, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 says turmoil made yanks extra Strong Steinbrenner look ahead to 1978 York up it rained on the new York Yankees Victory Parade wednesday and the club s principal owner George m. Steinbrenner will begin taking Steps within the next few Days to guard against that being an Omen for the future. While the Yankees were being feted by sticker tape Parade following their six game Triumph Over the los Angeles Dodg ers in the world series Steinbrenner was already thinking about next season an what moves he would have to make to insure the club s repeating As world Cham pions. The first thing i plan to do is sit Dow with Billy Martin and Gabe Paul and see what it will take to keep the Yankee son top said Steinbrenner. That s what we did last year after we lost to the made up our minds it was not going to happen was Steinbrenner s lavish spending in the free agent Market last Winter which was largely responsible for the Yankees winning the world championship this spent nearly $6 million to sign Pitcher Don Gullett and outfielder Reggie finds Victory Sweet Sweet Sweet Chicago a Reggie Jackson who tied one of the babe s records in the world series now goes against Ruth in the sweepstakes. Standard brands inc., a confectioner that also makes the popular baby Ruth bar said that because of Jackson s three Home run performance at the plate tues Day it is accelerating its schedule to Market a Candy bar named Reggie Reggie matched Ruth As the Only person to Ever hit three homers in on world series game and led the Yankees to their first world championship in 15 year by driving in five of their eight runs against the los Angeles would Nave been the perfect Day to begin marketing said Char estate product manager for new projects and As a matter of fact we be been Dis cussing it on a priority basis much of the company contracted with Jackson to name a Candy bar for him after designed with the Yankees last year. Somebody just asked me How we could be so clairvoyant and i had to Tell them it takes just a Superior intelligence and a awful lot of Luck said a Tongue in Cheek Ron Cappadocia president of the company. Cappadocia in t giving out any secret about the bar but says we re breaking our Butts to get it out by the end of this , the company says it won t be just another baby Ruth which Bytheway was named not for the Yankee slug Ger of yesteryear but for president Grove Cleveland s daughter Ruth who was born in the White House. Hanky braves win Pacific league race Tokyo up the Hanky braves backed by Veteran hurler Mitsuhiro Ada Chi s four hitter beat the Lotte Orion 7-0 in thelast game of the Best of five Pacific league playoff series in Sendai and won the league Pennant for the third straight defending Japan Champion braves will meet with the yom Iuri giants win ners of the Central league in the seven game Japan series starting at Nishino Miya stadium in Osaka oct. 22.the braves based in Osaka won the Japan title last year by beating the giants. Reggie Jackson and without those two the Yankees would not have even won the american league , the acquisition of the controversial Jackson while a key to the Yan Kees Success also produced much turmoil on the club and there Are those who feel the team cannot repeat As champions under the same things Don t change from How they were this year Well be a Good fourth place club next year said outfielder Lou Piniella. I am emotionally drained from this season. Not from playing the game but from All the questions about our Steinbrenner though does t share Piniella s opinion. If it had t been for All the turmoil weight not have been this Good said Stein Brenner. I think it made our Guys extra Strong. That was evident in both the play offs when we had to win two games i Kansas City in the series and also in the Pennant still there Are several players who have indicated their unhappiness with the Yan Kees and want out. Among them Are Mickey Rivers Thurman Munson de Figueroa Cliff Johnson and Roy White allow whom were important to the Yankees Success. After a month off and a world series win behind them they la think differently said s Likely however that the Yankees will try to Trade Johnson Figueroa and White. Munson wants to be traded to Cleve land so he can be near his family Wincanton Ohio and Rivers has expressed a desire to be traded to a California base team but both Are Likely to return. We will try and accommodate Munson but it s extremely doubtful we could get anything of equal value from the indians said Steinbrenner. They just Don t have anything to give us. I take everything Rivers says with a Grain of Jackson too has said from time to Tim that he did not want to return next year. But after his Brilliant showing in the world series and the Way he has been accepted by the new York fans he now say she is Happy with the Yankees. Mike Torrez poses another problem. The6-foot-5 right hander who won two games in the series wants to stay with the Yan Kees but he has yet to sign a contract and May go the free agent route if his de Fth out Are not order to keep ahead of the Boston red sox and Baltimore orioles in the Al East the Yankees will most Likely be Active again in the free agent Market. They have expressed interest in outfielders Lyman Bostock and Larry Hisle of the Minnesota twins and Relief Pitcher Rich Gossage of the Pittsburgh pirates. Look for one or possibly two of those players to be Wear ing Yankee pinstripes next year. Pals new York Yankees outfielder Reggie Jackson swings manager Billy Martin across his Waist in an outburst of Good spirits prior to the last world series game played in los Angeles. Later the yanks went on to new York to beat the dodgers in the sixth game and capture the series. A no Way / can consider new York the better team dodger Boss says los Angeles a the new Yor Yankees won the world series but los an Geles manager Tommy Lasorda still feel the dodgers Are the better of the two teams. I Don t want to take anything away from the Yankees we re too professional to do that said Lasorda wednesday. Yet there is no Way i can consider new York the better team. I would t Trade clubs period. Man for Man i have to take the dodgers Over the despite the Yankees 4-2 series Victory climaxed by tuesday night s 8-4 Triumph at Yankee stadium featuring three Homer by Reggie Jackson Lasorda said there was Only one Way to look at the 1977season, and that was As a dream come had a Long flight Home and we re disappointed that we could t bring Losangeles a world championship said la Sorda. But we had a tremendous seasoning Many ways a Gratifying season for the organization the manager the player Sand the fans. The world series does t change any thing does t alter the fact that this was a Happy and exciting season of outstanding accomplishments Lasorda agreed with the Contention of Philadelphia manager Danny Ozark that the playoff with the dodgers was bigger and better than the world series that there was More emotion and tension involved. You have to maintain an emotional pitch that s difficult to maintain once the playoffs Are Over said Lasorda. I can Tsay that the system is wrong but i do feel that there should be More than a Day or two break Between the two just Don t feel you saw the real Dodg ers in the series added Lasorda. We were Flat throughout. We did t come Back to the tremendous emotional level we had for the playoffs. Maybe it was my fault for failing to get them up. Maybe we we retrying too hard. There s no easy Lasorda said that a measure of the dodgers Success could be found in the set Ting of an All time attendance record nearly three million. I think we strengthened the attachment Between our fans and dodger Blue he said. I was talking to Frank Sinatra a few Days ago and he said that he d never seen a team in just one year excite a City like this team Dia. 1 Felt very Good about can the dodgers repeat yes. Definitely said Lasorda. I Al ready have a motto we did it before and we can do it again. "
