European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary if Nof ruined baseball i see where the modern Day versions of the Knight of the woeful the baseball owners of have taken up the Lance and Are Tilting at the windmills of change Treyve come up with a Dandy they want the Union to tie their hands and make them Stop tossing their Money off balconies to the hired help like Drunken they remind me of one of those multiple murderers who leans Over the body to scrawl a sign in lipstick on the bathroom help me or catch me be fore i kill again can you imagine captains of Industry in the United states of America having to beg unions to Stop them from their own pathological Over generosity feature John Rockefeller doing can you mor Gan Commodore Vanderbilt you think that How Diamond Jim Brady made his millions ill Tell they dont make capitalists the Way they used you talk about ballplayers not being what they used there throwbacks to the old compared to Pete Rose May or May not be As Good Asty Cobb but i have to Tell you that George Steinbrenner is not a Patch on Branch Rick did you know in just after he had batted with 46 homers and repeat runs batted Joe Dimaggio requested a raise to the owner of that Day was he told dimag that Lou Gehrig had been with the club 13 years and he didst make ill say he he made it turned those were the Days when men were owners were and ballplayers were you wiped your feet and took off your you went to see an owner in those those were the Days that Charles Comis key paid his athletes such niggardly wages that some of them threw the world series to get enough to feed their they got banned from baseball for Comiskey just made sure he didst win any More with the wages he that was you think those Guys Ever had to plead with unions to save them from themselves what would you guess Rickey paid the great dizzy Dean the year the Pitcher won 30 games and put Rickey cardinals in the world series and won that for them he got you heard that no the attitude of management in that Era is pretty much summed up in an interview that Rickey granted Roy recounted in the Book the Dizz Iest put together by the aver age salary should be for a Star says and he should be Able to play for eight says Stockton the player gives to baseball the years in other he would be building up his earning capacity with prospects to continue through later at a what would he have to show for his baseball la Bors answers Rickey out of a Man should be Able to save after eight he should be Able to retire with More than you have to is an an own ers a Man who not Only ran the club with an Iron hand but promoted Thrift and frugality in his fellow Man and refused to put temptation in his you think you needed drug tests for a Guy making six grand a year and needing to save five of it i should say not those were owners in those the real in the same Book by columnist Dan Parker weighs in with this terse graph the dope is Jimmie Foxx signed for Only three grand More than he received last in which the dope is Jimmie Foxx had led the league the year before in homers with in batting with a average and in Bis with two years he had hit 58 Home runs and batted you can see How ownership As a Craft has Meterio these Guys today Are not there complicated its not night Ball and artificial surfaces and air travel that Are ruining its the whatever happened to them when did they turn from Dollar hoarding plutocrats and begin to be Guys emptying their vaults to Banjo hitting pitchers and Over the Hill outfielders How did they get into the position they complain of losing million a year they just simply stopped by having like they began to act like Media they began worrying about their Public they got very they let the Reserve clause slip just because it was you think the old timers Ever cared about he Constitution they let things go to then to there was nothing in Law or anywhere else that said owners had to pay a million dollars a season to mediocre that they have to get into a Price War for the services of a that they have to Settle multiyear con tracts on Guys who make their clubs in the old in to some who can barely make them its As if a fever came Over their eyes glazed they got flecks of foam at the Corners of their and they began to turn on their own Best interests in their Zeal to get better tables in restau rants and their names in society there not hardheaded there in Large part practising they want the pen Nant for the prestige it will bring not the they want it for the the White House dinners it will open up for the Media at free agent they Are like kids locked up in a Candy they Gorge themselves on things that Are bad for now they want the Union to save them from them to give them a salary Cap so they can Start behaving like owners Branch Rickey had a salary he didst need any Union to help him Stop throwing his Money Charles Comiskey was More than a it was a ski the supreme court years that baseball want a it was a that baseball Doest need somebody who can break to Cobbs it needs somebody who can make a run at it needs owners like it used to they dont make pm like that los Angeles times from Page 21 working past his rough that was a struggling i didst know How Long hed make said padres giants 5 san Diego Terry Kennedy hit a two run double off reliever Mark Davis to lift Lamarr Hoyt to his seventh Victory in his last seven with the giants leading Mike Kru Kow walked Pinch hitter Al Bumbry to open the Krukow was relieved by who issued a walk to Pinch hitter Jerry after fouling off a Tony Gwynn singled to Center to score Bumbry and move Royster to Kennedy scored both runners with his Kennedy ranks among the toughest pitchers he has Hes up there with Larry Mcwilliams and John Candelaria and All those other Nasty left said yielded two Home runs to Jeff Rich Gossage pitched the ninth for his 16th astros braves 0 Atlanta Phil Garner hit a two run Homer in the eighth inning to break a pitching Duel Between Houston Bob Knepper and Atlanta Rick Alan Ashby led off the eighth with a walk off Garner then hit a drive Over the Centerfield Fence for his fourth Home run of the got the first two outs in the but then Bruce Benedict singled and Pinch hitter Paul Runge Dave Smith then came on to retire Pinch hitter Claudell Washington on a grounder for his 12th pirates expos 1 Montreal Rick Rhoden pitched a three hitter Over seven innings and drove Al from Page 21 winning run for Detroit As the tigers beat new Dave took the mariners rangers 3 Texas Al Cowens hit a three run Homer and run scoring sin Jim Presley homered and Phil Bradley doubled twice to Lead Seattle club re Cord tying 20hit attack As the mariners whipped Angels indians 0 Cleveland Reggie Jacksons 513th career a two run High lighted a four run second giving California a Victory Over an 18year moved past Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews to take sole Possession of 10th place on the Al time Home run Ron scattered four hits in hurling his first shutout and fourth Complete twins royals 8 Kansas Kirby puck Ett belted a base loaded triple in the seventh inning to rally Minnesota to a Triumph Over Kansas ending the twins three game losing who ended an ofor15 slump with a third inning had four hits and four As White sox i Chicago Alfredo Griffin cracked a three run Bruce Bochte smacked a two run shot and Carney Lansford hit a Solo blast to Back Rookie Tim Birtsas four bit pitching Over eight powering Oakland past Bochte homered in the seventh inning and Griffin and Lansford in the eighth to Pace Oakland 16hit attack that helped Stop Chicago seven game Home win Tom failed in a bid for his 296th career file photo Lethander Frank Tanana Detroit native in the winning run with a fifth inning Dou ble As Las place Pittsburgh Defeated first place Montreal for the third time in four snapped a personal three game losing Al Holland allowed two hits Over the final two innings to re Cord his fifth Marvell Wynne lined a on out single in the stole went to third on Catcher Mike fitzgeralds Fielding error and scored on Sixto Lezcano sacrifice Lezcano was when left fielder Tim Raines dropped the Ball on the play for an Rhoden then knocked in Lezcano with a rangers Trade Tanana to tigers Detroit up the Detroit tigers announced thursday they have obtained Veteran left handed Pitcher Frank Tanana from the Texas rangers in Exchange for minor league right hander Duane Bill tigers vice president and Gener Al said will report to the team within the next few Lajoie said a move to make room for Tanana on the 25man roster will be made at that a native of Detroit who pitched at Catholic Central High was 27 with a earned run average for the rangers so far this with a 137137 career was the California Angels top pick in the june 1971 free agent he pitched for the Angels from 1973 to then went to Boston in 1981 and has been with Texas the last three
