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Griffin Daily News
Wednesday, July 23, 1969
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WASHINGTON — Fireballing Bob Feller (right)
and Lefty Grove, who were picked as the greatest
living righthanded and southpaw respectively by the
baseball writers and sportscasters, are framed by one
of the trophies at a news conference. They, and
other hall of famers, are here to attend the 40th
annual All-Star game in RFK Stadium.
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Pro Football Hit Hardest
By Rash of Retirements
NEW YORK—(NEA)—I fully expect the star slugger of
the local Little League champs to announce his retirement
any day because he has been told to divest himself of his
one-third interest in the dugout lemonade concession This
followed a confidential report by the Committee of Mothers
that the other kids got zonked on the stuff.
“Nobody,” said Little Slugger, sipping his Gatorade,
“has proved nuthin’ to me." And so he’d rather quit than
switch.
Retirement is very in.
Hawk Harrelson and Bill
Russell have threatened it.
Maury Wills and Don Clen
denon actually did it, but
were lured back by a
change of uniforms. Even
Don Drysdale talked about
chucking it all when his
arm couldn't chuck the ball
up.
Nothing in the retirement
field, however, compares
to the grand exodus which
confronted pro football
when the summer exercise
period began the other day
all across the country—
from Thousand Oaks,
Calif., to Hempstead, Long
Island.
It was spurred initially
by Joe Namath’s lachry
mose announcement i n
June that he was retiring
on principle. Since then, of
course, he has kept a daisy-plucking nation in suspense—
“ Will he? . . . won’t he? . . . will he? . .
Altogether, 27 established players in the National Foot
ball League and 18 players in the American Football
League have officially and voluntarily retired—a grand
total of 45. Among them, in the NFL, are such still service
able characters as Don Meredith of Dallas, Jerry Kramer
of Green Bay and Bernie Casey of Los Angeles.
Casey quit to paint and act; Kramer will devote himself,
among other things, to writing (with the aid of a ghost).
And Meredith just wants to think—he didn't feel he was
in the right frame of mind to play football. The intellectual
attainments of today's sports heroes are truly formidable.
Just the idea of retiring has taken hold as a ploy among
the successful players. Deacon Jones, the most fearsome
defensive end in pro football, has announced he would
like a less active role by getting into show business. Don
Perkins, the little fullback of the Cowboys, the leading
active rusher in pro football, has been muttering again
about settling down for good in the wide open spaces of
New Mexico.
Earl Morrall, the most valuable player in the league
last year, winner of the Jim Thorpe Trophy, was made a
corporate vice-president of a sports promotion outfit and
seriously contemplated leaving the Colts. Nick Buoniconti,
long an all-league linebacker for the Boston Patriots,
didn't report to the Miami Dolphins, to whom he was
traded. Nick, now armed with a law degree, didn’t like the
Dolphins’ offer and retired—until they met his money
demands.
.The New York Jets, satiated with a Super Bowl pay-off
and influenced by Namath’s stand against the Establish
ment, had four regulars as potential defectors when their
camp opened. A fifth, Bob Talamini, a regular offensive
guard, wrote that he couldn’t stand to be parted from his
family in Houston again.
The epidemic of reluctant dragons encompassed even the
celebrated O. J. Simpson. On a one-year basis, at least,
he has been on the verge of quitting before he starts
because the Buffalo Bills aren’t sympathetic to his money
demands.
It's really something for the sociologists and psychol- ,
ogists to mull over—this penchant for dropping out before '
your time is up because of various grievances. It's almost
analogous to the dropout syndrome that's pervading our
schools.
Except that these guys don’t get hurt materially. The
most tangible effect is that they get dropped from the
bubble gum card series.
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