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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, June 20, 1973
Page 8
Can Brewers stay there?
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) - Every
time he tries to get a little
fresh air, everywhere he goes,
Del Crandall gets hit with the
same thing.
“Can you stay there?"
“Can you keep it up?"
“Did you ever dream in
spring training that a thing like
this could ever happen?”
Del Crandall smiles. It’s very
easy for him to do that now
with his high-riding Milwaukee
Brewers carrying on as if
somebody should give them a
saliva test.
“Why wouldn’t I dream of
something like this?" he says.
“When I dream, I try to dream
of good things, not bad ones.”
Del Crandall has a good thing
now and he knows it. He has a
ball club which finished dead
last three of the past four years
and nobody in the world, with
the possible exception of the
stockholders, would’ve batted
an eye had they finished last
again this year.
It isn’t likely they will.
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On the contrary, the bewil
dering Brewers are beginning
to revive World Series’ memo
ries in Milwaukee for the first
time in 15 years. That was the
last time the city had a winner.
The old Milwaukee Braves
had some pretty gifted per
formers that year. Players like
Lew Burdette, Eddie Mathews,
Red Schoendienst, Bill Bruton,
Joe Adcock and Crandall. They
also had a pair of superstars
like Hank Aaron and Warren
Spahn.
The Brewers don’t have any
superstars though.
George Scott thinks he is, but
he has some way to go yet.
Mostly the Brewers are doing
as well as they are with rookies
and young fellows who aren’t
even hitting .250, players you’ve
probably barely heard of like
Gorman Thomas, Bob Coluccio,
Darrell Porter and Tim John
son. ,
Davey May, who couldn’t
even win a regular job with
Baltimore, is Milwaukee’s most
consistent performer, and rook
ie Pedro Garcia and catcher
Ellie Rodriguez corpe closest to
being leaders.
The pitching has been some
thing else, averaging less than
three runs a game this month.
The Brewers’ Seaver
Jim Colbom, the 26-year-old
righthander discarded by the
Cubs, is the Brewers’ Tom
Seaver. He goes against anyone
in the league and figures he
can lick them. Jerry Bell,
another righthander, feels pret
ty much the same way. Jim
Slaton is forever challenging
the hitters with his fast ball,
and Bill Parsons is just
beginning to make a contribu
tion. In the bullpen, Frank
Linzy has been reminiscent of
what Sparky Lyle was for the
Yankees last year.
So turned on by the Brewers
have the fans become in
Milwaukee lately, that 22,796 of
them showed up the other
evening for a Monday night
contest with the Red Sox
despite the fact a tornado alert
had been up until two hours
before game time.
Colbom pitched a six-hitter in
that one for his ninth win and
by the ninth inning, all the fans
were yelling “We’re No. 1!
We’re No. 1!”
This is third baseman Don
Money’s first year in Mil
waukee. He came to the
Brewers this past winter from
Philadelphia and isn’t too used
to such a reaction from the
fans.
“It gets you goose pimply out
there with all those fans yelling
like that,” he says.
All the excitement is getting
a little to Del Crandall also.
“I can hardly wait to go out
and see the club play,” he says.
He means it, too.
Club Shows Enthusiasm
“I don’t think I’ve ever been
associated with a club that has
shown more raw, sincere
enthusiasm,” he says.
Can he be a little more
specific?
“Well, yes,” says the Bre
wers’ manager. “The man’s
name is Joe Lahoud. Here’s a
guy 26 years old who believes
he can play regularly and
wants to play regularly. He has
come to me and said ‘if I cant’
play regularly, please try to
make a deal for me.’ It is not
an unreasonable request, and
he made it a couple of times to
me, but never in a malicious,
nasty way.
“Okay, in Monday night’s
game with the Red Sox, they
bring in a lefthander (Rogelio
Moret) in the third inning, and
I make a change, putting
Thomas in right field in place
of Lahoud. Lahoud goes up to
the clubhouse, changes his
sweat shirt, comes back down
to the bench and roots louder
than anybody else. To me, that
is significant. Here’s a fellow
who’ll give anything to play
regularly, but you can see how
he feels about the ball club.”
How about Del Crandall?
When his manager would
take him out of a ball game,
and he went back into the
clubhouse to change his sweat
shirt, would he come back to
the bench?
“Not always,” he confesses.
“Sometimes I’d just wait in the
clubhouse.”
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she serves one up to Liz Brandon, wife of Phillies pitcher Darrell Brandon during a softball game
between the wives of the Phillies and Mets prior to their baseball game. Mets wives won 7-1. (UPI)
By United Press International
Leading Batters
National League
g. ab r. h. pct.
Torre, St.L 54 188 29 65 .346
Mota, LA 41 137 17 47 .343
Goodsn.SF 55 204 18 68 .333
Maddox, SF 54 209 24 69 .330
Bonds, SF 68 276 65 90 .326
Watsn,Hou 67 243 43 79 .325
Fairly, Mtl 52 151 25 49 .325
Unser, Phil 49 145 22 47 .324
Lopes, LA 55 193 31 62 .321
Cardnl.Chi 64 233 41 73 .313
American League
g. ab r. h. pct.
Blmbrg,NY44 127 23 51 .402
Horton,Det 35 131 18 47 .359
Carew, Min 59 229 42 77 .336
Krkptk.KC 55 198 34 65 .328
D.AUen,Chis9 213 37 69 .324
Kelly, Chi 47 186 31 60 .323
Leon, Chi 57 185 19 58 .314
Berry, Cal 56 170 22 53 .312
Hndrsn,Chi36 135 21 42 .311
Maybry,KC67 234 47 72 .308
Home Runs
National League: Stargell,
Pitt 19; Aaron, Atl 18; Bonds,
SF 17; Evans, Atl and Monday,
Chi 16.
American League: Mayberry,
KC 18; Fisk, Bos and D. Allen,
Chi 15; Spikes, Clev and Bando,
Oak 14.
Runs Batted In
National League: Bench, Cin
53; Ferguson, LA 49; Stargell,
Pitt and Bonds, SF 45;
Williams, Chi 43.
American League: Mayberry,
KC 64; Jackson, Oak 56;
Melton, Chi 46; Darwin, Minn
42; Yastrzemski, Bos and
Murcer, NY 41.
Pitching
National League: Bryant, SF
11-4; Billingham, Cin and Wise,
St.L 9-3; Osteen, LA 8-3;
Reuschel, Chi, Sutton, LA and
Seaver, NY 8-4; Reuss, Hou 8-5.
American League: Wood, Chi
14-8; Singer, Cal 11-3; Holt
zman, Oak 11-5; Splittorff, KC
10-3; Coleman, Det 10-6.
I Sports Briefs |
1 TWO-YEAR CONTRACTS
STOCKHOLM (UPI) - Two
Swedish ice hockey players—
defenseman Boerje Salming
and forward Inge Hammarstro
em—have signed two-year pro
contracts with the Toronto
Maple Leafs of the National
Hockey League, it was an
nounced Tuesday.
Salming, 22, and Hammar
stroem, 25, reportedly will
receive some $40,000 each for
two-year contracts.
NEW POST
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -
Bill Linson, currently assistant
sports information director at
Purdue University, will succeed
Jim Carfield as director of
information for the Mid-Ameri
can Conference, it was an
nounced Tuesday by League
Commissioner Fred Jacoby.
Linson, 33, will assume his
new post Aug. 1.
Standings)!
By United Press International
National League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Chicago 39 28 .582 -
Montreal . 30 28 .517 4%
St. Louis 30 32 .484 6%
New York 28 31 .475 7
Pittsburgh 27 33 .450 8%
Philadelphia 28 35 .444 9
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Los Angeles 41 25 .621 —
San Francisco 40 28 .588 2
Houston 37 30 .552 4%
Cincinnati 35 29 .547 5
Atlanta 28 38 .424 13
San Diego 20 46 .303 21
Tuesday’s Results
Chi 6 Pitts 3,lst
Pitts 4 Chi 3, 2nd
Philadelphia 6 New York 1
Montreal 3 St. Louis 1
Houston 7 San Diego 3
Los Angeles 3 Atlanta 0
Cincinnati 4 San Fran 0
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All times EDT)
Cincinnati (Gullett 6-5) at San
Francisco (Barr 4-7), 4 p.m.
New York (Matlack 4-8) at
Philadelphia (Twitchell 5-2),
7:30 p.m.
Chicago (Reuschel 8-4) at
Pittsburgh (Briles 4-6), 8:05
p.m.
Montreal (McAnally 4-1) at
St. Louis (Foster 4-4), 9 p.m.
Atlanta (Harrison 2-2) at Los
Angeles (Downing 5-3), 11 p.m.
Houston (Forsch 6-7) at San
Diego (Ar lin 2-4), 10:30p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Montreal at St. Louis
New York at Pitts, night
Atlanta at Los Ang, night
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American League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Milwaukee 34 29 .540 —
New York 34 30 .531 %
Baltimore 30 27 .526 1
Detroit 32 30 .516 1%
Boston 30 31 .492 3
Cleveland 23 41 .359 11%
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Minnesota 33 27 .550 —
Chicago 32 27 .542 %
Oakland 35 30 .538 %
California 33 29 .532 1
Kansas City 36 32 .529 1
Texas 20 39 .339 12%
Tuesday’s Results
Oakland 11 Kan City 6
Minnesota 7 Texas 3
California 3 Chicago 1
Boston 8 Milw 4,lst
Boston 4 Milw 1, 2nd, 11 inns
Cleveland 8 Detroit 7
New York 5 Baltimore 4
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
California (Ryan 8-7) at
Chicago (Stone 2-2 2:15 p.m.
Detroit (Coleman 10-6) at
Cleveland (Bosman 2-6), 1 p.m.
Oakland (Blue 5-3) at Kansas
City (Busby 3-7), 8:30 p.m.
Texas (Siebert 3-6) at Min
nesota (Blyleven 8-7), 9 p.m.
Boston (Lee 7-2) at Mil
waukee (Parsons 3-4), 8:30 p. m.
Baltimore (Cuellar 3-6) at
New York (Stottlemyre 8-6),
7:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Cleveland at Milwaukee
California at Minn, night
Oakland at Chicago, night
Detroit at New York, night
Baltimore at Boston, night