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The Augusta News-Review - June 21, 1973,
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By Mark T. Souiheriand
National Black News Service
K.C. Jones, the former
Boston Celtic star, last week
resigned as coach of the ABA s
San Diego Conquistadors in the
first year of a three-year
contract.
However, the news in the
Washington area is that the
41-year-old Jones, who played
quard with the Celtics 13 years
during which he was on eight
NBA championship teams, this
week became tire new manager of
the Capital (formerly
Baltimore) Bullets.
Jones met with the Bullets’
vice president Jerry Sachs in
Chicago about a month ago.
When asked about the
possibility of his filling the
now-vacant Bullets coaching
slot, Jones said, “yes, I’d like
that. They have a very fine
club. They have a lot of good
players. 1 saw them against the
Knicks in the playoffs.”
*** * *
Washington Redskins Coach
George Allen did a little more
wheeling and dealing last week
and came up with Dave
Robinson, former Green Bay
Packer linebacker who was
traded to last year’s NFC
champs for a No. 2 draft
choice in January, but who had
previously said “no” to a
determined and persistent
Allen.
Robinson had been named
director of minority affairs for
a brewing company and said he
believed that position offered
him and his family more
security than football.
But Allen turned a deaf ear
and last week announced that
Robinson an All-American at
Penn State and the Packers’
No. 1 draft choice in 1963, had
been signed to a reported
$90,000-a-year, three year
contract with the ‘Skins.
The 32-year-old Robinson,
who was tapped for the Pro
Bowl in 1967, 1968, and 1970
and who was the most valuable
player in the 1968 game, will
replace Jack Pardee, who
retired after the Super Bowl
game and became a Redskin
coach.
Os his change of mind,
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ATLANTA (PRN) - The
most dynamic duo since Bat
Man and Robin has taken over
big league baseball in Atlanta,
and they have given the Braves
a face-lifting of better
pitching, hustle and increased
team speed. And because of
them a National League
pennant will hopefully fly
over Atlanta Stadium in a few
short years to come.
The duo in Atlanta comes in
the form of the Braves’ two
Robinson said, “I found you
just can’t erase the challenge
and the thrill of competition
over night. It stays with you
and you want to get back in
there. So I’m going to take
another crack at it with a team
I think has great potential.”
When the left linebacker
moves to Washington, he will
have to get a new jersey, for
No. 89 is already ably-filled by
former N.Y. Jet star Verlon
Biggs.
*****
According to reports
published by the Boston
Herald American, new NBA
Seattle Super Sonics coach Bill
Russell owes the Federal
Government $34,430 in back
taxes for 1969 and 1970, the
Internal Revenue Service has
placed a lien on his Reading,
Mass, home, and the Small
Business Administration is
seeking payment of a portion
of a $90,000 loan made to the
former Boston Celtic and his
wife for the purchase of a
restaurant which later failed.
Two weeks ago, Russell had
rapped the city of Boston and
the local media for “racist”
treatment of black players in
covering sports.
*****
Chicago White Sox first
baseman Dick Allen received
27,628 votes last week in early
balloting for the major league
All Star Game, thus giving him
the second highest Boston
Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk
got 28,354 votes total.
Also scoring high were
Kansas City first baseman John
Mayberry (23,496); Cookie
Rojas (26,715), Kansas City
second baseman; Reggie
Jackson (Oakland outfielder)
24,984; and Kansas City
outfielder Amos Otis.
Starting teams for the July
24 game in Kansas City will ba
announced July 16-17.
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Eddies -- Eddie Robinson and
Eddie Mathews.
Eddie Robinson was the
man named to replace Paul
Richards in running the team’s
baseball operation last
summer, and Mathews is the
man that Robinson named to
manage his team on the field.
The fruits of these men’s labor
came slow. A sputtering start
of the season, however, was
followed by the hottest streak
in baseball during early June.
The Braves now seem to be on
the right track to a pennant
contender.
Who are the two men that
now lead the Braves?
Robinson is a soft-spoken
former big league star, who
was selected as the best first
baseman in the history of the
Chicago White Sox. After his
playing career, he learned the
trade of developing big league
talent while working in the
farm departments of the
Orioles, Astros and Athletics,
he then joined the Braves in
1968 as head of Atlanta’s farm
system, developing young stars
like Ralph Garr, Dusty Baker,
and Rob Gilbreath.
When he was named
director of player personnel of
the Braves in June of 1972, he
wasted no time in assessing the
situation.
“I knew I was completely
aware of all phases of our
operation in player
development,” he recalled,
“but I hadn’t spent much time
with the major league
players .. .except for the ones
who came up from our minor
league operation.
“So when I first got the job,
I spent the rest of the 1972
season following the major
league club to see how things
were done. It has taken a lot
of evaluating and a lot of
meetings to draw everyone in
the organization together, but
now we all know what each
other’s jobs are.”
“A tean must have a
winning attitude to be a
consistent contender,”
Robinson said. “The team’s
manager is the big man in
developing attitude, and I
think Eddie Mathews is
perfectly suited to do that job.
We both want to see our
players taking pride in doing a
good job every day.”
Mathews was also a star as a
player. He is the all-time third
baseman of the Braves and was
coach of the team before
being named manager last
season.
“Building a baseball team is
like putting together the
pieces of a puzzle,” Mathews
says. “First, you have to
collect all the right parts, and
then it’s a matter of fitting
them together into a precise
unit.
“If I didn’t think this is a
talented Braves team, I
wouldn’t say so,” he
continued. “I know we have
the talent and I know the
players are giving their best
effort, and I am confident
we’ll be a winner. Our players
are playing the game like men,
and with that attitude we’ll be
all right.”
TEPEE TOPICS: The
jiggest homestand of the year
runs from June 28th through
July sth in Atlanta. Los
Angeles, San Francisco and
Houston will be in town, and
three of the big promotions of
the year are scheduled.
Thursday, June 28th, will be
banner night, sponsored by
Krystal Restaurants, with
$1,500 in cash prizes for fans
with the best banners.
Saturday, June 30, is the
annual Old-Timers Game; and
Tuesday, July 3rd, is the big C
& S Bank sponsored fireworks
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An Opinion On Sports
Racial Bigotry Still Entrenched In Sports
By Richard (Onion) Horton
The hiring of Bill Russell as
General Manager, Coach of The
Seatie National Basketball
Association team illustrates the
contrast between the forward
approach of professional
basketball, and the racist
attitude of pro football and
baseball in management
Possibly the greatest
Old-Timers Game in the
history of major league
baseball will take place on
June 30 in Atlanta before the
regular Braves game against
the San Francisco Giants.
Every Old-Timer participating
in the game played for either
the American League or the
National League in an All-Star
Game during his career.
Start with Stan Musial;
then add famous names like
Pee Wee Reese, Bob Feller,
Luke Appling, Whitey Ford,
Nellie Fox, Ted Kluszewski,
Sal Maglie, Robin Roberts,
Bobby Richardson, Moose
Skowron, Bob Turley, Harvey
Kuenn, Johnny Mize, Al
Rosen, Billy Moran, Pete
Runnels, Mickey Vernon,
Early Wynn, Frank Bolling,
Ken Boyer, Smokey Burgess,
Tommy Holmes, Monte Irvin,
Buck Leonard, Johnny Logan,
Danny Murtaugh and Billy
O’Dell.
Current Braves manager
Eddie Mathews and his
coaches, Connie Ryan and
Lou Burdette, will also be on
hand to complete the list at
over 30 great former All-Stars.
Several of the participants,
like Appling, Feller, Wynn,
Irvin, Leonard and Musial are
already members of the Hall
of Fame. Others like Fox,
Reese, Roberts and Mize will
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opportunities. Basketball now
has baseball in management
opportunities. Baseketball now
has four head coaches (Russell,
Al Attles, K.C. Jones and Ray
Scott), and two general
managers (Russell and Wayne
Embry).
Examine for a moment a
couple of myths used by
baseball and football for not
probably be enshrined with
the immortals in the future.
The fact that all of these
men played in All-Star games
doesn’t tell the whole story.
Many were personally
responsible for victories by
their teams.
Ken Boyer, for instance,
played in ten All-Star games,
but his 1956 appearance
stands out above the rest. He
went 3-for-5 with the bat and
in the field broke the hearts of
the American Leaguers with
three sizzling plays as the
National League won 7-3.
Feller, who pitched three
no-hit games during his career,
was the hero of the 1939
All-Star Game. He entered the
game in the sixth inning with
the bases loaded and one out.
He retired the side and went
on to allow only one hit in the
last three frames.
Rosen was the star of the
1954 game. He whalloped two
successive home runs before
the home crowd in Cleveland
and drove in a total of five
runs as the American League
won 11-9.
Pete Runnels dealt the
surprise of the 1962 game.
The Boston infielder was not
noted as a power hitter. He
had, in fact, hit only 45
round-trippers in 12 years in
the majors. He connected
against Art Mahaffey with one
hiring blacks in management
(local writers and radio
personalities were quick to
echo the same statements). (1)
It’s not the hiring of a ‘Negro’
it would be the problem of
firing him. FACT: Errol Lloyd
and Len Wilkens were fired,
and not one cry of racism was
voiced. Seattle fans objected to
the Wilkens dismissal, but not
in the third inning to lead the
American League to a 9-4
victory.
Fans of the great Cleveland
teams of the mid 1950’s and
of the Yankee pennant
winners should be delighted
by the Braves Old-Timers
Game this year. Five of the
great Cleveland stars and three
of the Yankees are
represented.
The Old-Timers Game at
Atlanta Stadium is scheduled
to start at 5 p.m. on June 30th
with the Braves game against
the Giants following at 6 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased
through the mail. Field level
seats are $4 each and upper
level $3 for adults and $1.50
for youngsters (12 and under).
Checks should be made
payable to the Atlanta Braves
and sent to Braves Mail Order
Ticket Department, Box 4064,
Atlanta. Ga. 30302. Enclose
an additional 50 cents for
handling.
TEPEE TOPICS: The
Braves annual fireworks
extravaganza is coming up on
July 3rd after the Braves game
against the Astros. The
fireworks show, which is the
largest aerial show of its type
in the nation, features
hundreds of rockets up to 12
inches in diameter exploding
during a 20-minute period.
This type of show normally
on racial grounds. (2) They
don’t possess leadership ability.
I’d like to know what
leadership qualities are missing
from such players as Frank
Robinson and Maury Wills?
That such heroes as Solly
Hemus, Frank Quilisi, Ed
Kasko, Chuck Tanner, and
Yogi Berra somehow have
developed? None of these men
as donown as academic giants.
Paint them black and they’d be
unemployed before the ink
dried on this paper. Public
voicing of racial inferiority is
no drawback.
We all remember the
manager who, a few years ago,
stated he had only seen three
lasts 45 minutes but will be
crammed into a 20-minute
period to make it even more
spectacular. Fans will be
allowed to leave the Stadium
at the end of the game and sit
in the parking lots for better
vision.
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black players who could think.
What about the few blacks
standing around the majors, all
at first base. Anyone with the
slightest knowledge of baseball
knows the first base coach has
about as much value as a
scarecrow in front of
Famous-Barr. The biggest
decision they have to make
during a game is which pocket
to put the batting helmet in. I
can see him catching a drive off
the bat of Willie McCovey with
a glove the size of crepe
suzette.
Pro football has a few
figureheads to appease the
NAACP and CORE also. They
have such titles as Assistant
Speciality Team Coach, or
Assistant Offensive End Coach,
or any other similiar title that
proves useful at the time. The
NFL office has its ‘transit
black’ . . . Uncle Buddy Young
is set scurrying around the
country' anytime the blacks
have a greviance.
The center of hypocrisy has
to be Texas University at
Austin. Daryl Royal has Al
Randolph listed as an
Assistant. Randolph is the only
college coach in America who
spends the entire season
playing professional football
(with Green Bay). He stops in
for a cup of coffee during
practice (two weeks). He has
the great responsibility of
assistant backfield coach!
At least basketball has
advanced men who have shown
talent. Football and the
‘national pastime’ are still
practicing in the great
American tradition of denying
advancement because of skin
color.