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Wednesday, July 14,1971
F. Robinson
voted MVP
DETROIT (UPI) — Reggie
Jackson said they picked the
right man.
He meant Frank Robinson,
who was voted MVP in the
American League’s 6-4 victory
over the National League in
Tuesday night’s All-Star game.
In the clubhouse after the
game, it looked as if Jackson
had engineered the American
Leaguers’ conquest because he
had the biggest crowd around
him. Everybody wanted to ask
him about his titanic third
inning pinch homer that hit an
electric generator on the right
field roof and Frank Howard
said would have gone 600
feet for sure if it hadn’t.
But Jackson preferred talking
about Robinson, for whom be
played with Santurce which
won the Puerto Rican League
championship this past winter.
“I could’ve played with
several clubs this winter
but I picked Santurce because
Frank was the manager,” said
Jackson, who got into Tuesday
Victory sweet
to Robinson
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Writer
DETROIT (UPl)—Brooks Ro
binson squeezed the ball hard.
A little extra hard. He had good
reason.
This was the tricky wind
blown pop-up Johnny Bench
lifted in front of third base for
the final out.
Brooks Robinson, the best
third baseman in the game,
some even say in all baseball
history, has missed a couple of
easy ones like that in his time
but he was going to make sure
of this one. Very sure.
On the fourth finger of his
left hand Brooks Robinson
wears a gold diamond ring
commemorating the world
championship his club, the
Baltimore Orioles, won rather
easily last year. For all that he
was starting to feel like an
inveterate loser. Playing on
eight straight losing American
League All-Star teams had a lot
to do with it. A thing like that
can give a man an inferiority
complex even if he does wear a
world championship ring.
“It wasn’t humiliating so
much,” Robinson explained
after grabbing Bench’s pop-up
Tuesday night for the putout
which nailed down a 6-4 victory
over the National League. “It
was more disappointing than
anything else.”
There was another important
consideration also.
Every place the veteran 34-
year-old Robinson would go
he’d have to try answering why
the Americans couldn’t beat the
Nationals in the All-Star game.
He never was able to supply a
really acceptable answer. Pos
sibly because he knew the
National League generally was
stronger.
“I’d have to say they had the
better players from 1960
through 1966,” Brooks Robinson
said even after his league broke
their eight-year losing streak
Tuesday night “I thought the
players they picked for these
All-Star games overall were
better than the ones we had.
I’m talking about those particu
lar years. We should begin
winning our share now.”
Brooks Robinson isn’t saying
one ball game is any accurate
yardstick with which to mea
sure both leagues and his
Baltimore teammate, Frank
Robinson, who has played in
both leagues, feels the same
way.
“I’m tired of hearing the
other league is better,” said
Frank Robinson, who spent nine
years with Cincinnati before
being traded to Baltimore late
in 1965. “In a 162-game
schedule, I mean if we played
them that many games, they’d
come out on top. For one game
though, I don’t think they’re
that much better.”
This is a bit of semantics on
Frank Robinson’s part because
he knows the American League
is coming but it hasn’t caught
to the National yet. Not
quite.
Brooks Robinson knows it,
too.
With that excellent recall
most ballplayers have for past
contests, Brooks Robinson
Frank Robinson
Baltimore Orioles
night’s All-Star game as a
substitute when Tony Oliva had
to pull out with a pulled
hamstring muscle.
“Nobody has any idea what
he did for me,” Jackson said,
still talking about Robinson.
“Frank is a tremendous man.
leaned up against a whirlpool
machine in the American
League clubhouse after it was
all over Tuesday night and
touched on aU those All-Star
losses he has been in the past
eight years.
“... The 1963 game was
played in Cleveland and we out
hit ’em but got beat,” he
remembered. “The year after
that I got two or three hits and
they told me I would’ve been
the MVP but Callison hit a
three-run homer off Radatz in
the ninth and we lost again.”
Brooks Robinson was thinking
of the other years now.
"... Willie Mays hit a homer
off Milt Pappas in the first
inning in *65 and they got out lit
front quick.
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I’ve never seen him lose control
of any situation. Look, I’m not
a hero worshipper. I’m not
saying he’s the greatest thing
going, and I’m not blowing
snoke. To me though, he’s a
walking, winning attitude. He
taught me the most important
tiing in the world. How to
control myself. He told me,
‘Reggie, go out there and let
your ability do it for you. Don’t
throw your bat; don’t throw
your helmet; that’s never going
to help you. I listened to him. It
has made all the difference in
the world.”
Robinson connected for one of
six homers that were hit in
Tiger stadium Tuesday night.
His tworun shot off loser Dock
Ellis climaxed a four-run rally
in the third inning and put the
American League ahead for
keeps.
Oddly, Jackson was playing
with a pulled hamstring muscle
to his leg also. Before the game
he told Earl Weaver, the AL
manager, he wouldn’t be able
to run much.
It turned out he never had to.
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Blue impresses Aaron
DETROIT (UPI) - Nobody
who witnessed Tuesday night’s
home run-studded All-Star
game would argue with those
pitchers who claim Tiger
stadium is a hitters’ ball perk.
Except possibly Vida Blue,
who was stung for two of the
record-being six roundtrippers
in the three innings he pitched
and still managed to emerge as
the winner for the victorious
Amrrican League.
“Every ball park is a hitters’
ball park,” said the 21-year-old
Oakland A’s southpaw.
Blue felt that he “threw
good” against the power-hitting
National Leaguers, but admit
ted that the satisfaction that
comes with pitching a complete
game and walking off the field
with the victory was not there.
Cincinnati’s Sparky Andrson,
who managed the losers, said
he thought Blue “did an
excellent job” and that he
showed “terrific poise” for a
young man participating in his
first All-Star game.
However, Anderson added, “I
don’t think I was seeing Vida
Blue at his best. Or Dock Ellis
(the National League starter)
either, for that matter. Both of
them are so young and must
have been under considerable
pressure.”
Hank Aaron, the Atlanta
Braves* slugger who clipped
Blue for a solo homer in the
third inning in his first extra I
base hit in 20 All-Star g
appearances, said he was “very-*
impressed” with Blue’s fest
ball, which is his primary pitch.
But that didn’t stop Aaron j
from lifting one of those fast
balls into the right field seats.
Ski team
PINEMOUNTAIN,Ga. (UPI)
—The American Water Ski As
sociation has named the three
men and three women who will
represent the United States at
the 12th biennial World Water
Ski Championships Sept. 10-19
at Banolas, Spain.
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