ankees: management ego conflict
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1977
Page 5
United Press International
iW YORK — By now, George
jibrenner is getting used to it.
’has heard himself called an
itist before, so it doesn’t bother
| anymore.
He’s not thrilled with
[description but isn’t losing any
Ip over it, either.
For the past year and a half,
fcball people have been wonder-
|how long it would be before the
Ikee owner’s forceful personality
^■hed with that of his field man
ger, Billy Martin, no shrinking
%»olet himself.
. Now, enter a third party, Reggie
„!, Ison. While still working for the
( l a nd A’s, he once said, “If I ever
?ed in New York, they’d name a
Jask ty bar after me '”
Join he only other ballplayer ever to
lead made an object of such confec-
ls, a: i was Babe Ruth, so that gives
itedi i some fair idea of Reggie
srs r (son’s ego.
^erali
n Nevada, where they make the
Is on the pennant races every
^ r, no line has been established
for this year, but you can bet
aur house, car and guitar the Yan-
ees will be favored in the American
■gue East. There doesn’t seem to
e any question they’re going to
The only question is by how
bch.
Joseph A.W. Iglehart raises
another question, though. In case
you don’t know Joe Iglehart, he’s a
prince of a guy. He’s been in
baseball the past 22 years, as board
chairman of the Orioles first and
then as a stockholder with the Yan
kees, and now he’s getting out be
cause he’s unhappy.
Iglehart told Maury Allen of the
New York Post he thinks the world
of George Steinbrenner personally,
but objects to the $3 million deal
Steinbrenner made for Jackson. Ig
lehart questions how much Jackson
will help the Yankees.
“I think one of the really big prob
lems with the Yankees will be how
the three biggest egotists in
baseball, George Steinbrenner,
Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson,
will get along,” said Iglehart.
When I called George Steinbren
ner in Tampa and asked him about
that, he had this to say:
“Joe Iglehart, without a doubt, is
one of the finest gentlemen I’ve
ever met in my life, in sports or out.
The only scar his departure leaves
with me is that I hate to see him no
longer part of the Yankees. He is an
utterly decent man.
“As for my being an egotist, if
wanting to win a world cham
pionship as badly as I want to win
one for New York makes me that,
then I am an egotist. In this same
regard, I’d be disappointed if Billy
Martin and Reggie Jackson weren’t
also. A great competitor or athlete
feeds on ego, consciously or subcon
sciously. You think Babe Ruth
wasn’t an egotist? Or Joe DiMaggio
or Ted Williams? And what about
Muhammad Ali? That’s what made
them all so great.”
The Yankee owner doesn’t see
any conflict among Martin, Jackson
and himself. He feels the chief re
sponsibility rests with the leader
ship at the top, meaning himself,
and no matter what else you say
about Steinbrenner, his track rec
ord for leadership is good. Out
standing, in fact, even if he does
happen to bowl over a couple of ten
pins now and then.
Remember when the Yankees got
Doc Ellis. Ellis wore braids with the
Pirates. Steinbrenner would never
stand for anything like that. There
was bound to be a confrontation.
But there never was one. Dock Ellis
won 17 games, was Comeback
Player of the Year and even became
the Yanks’ player rep.
Similarly, Oscar Gamble was no
problem, either. With the Indians,
he refused to cut his hair for three
years; with the Yankees, he cut his
hair and it stayed cut.
Everybody also said nobody
could handle Billy Martin. But
George Steinbrenner did. The two
had some differences of opinions,
but none so serious that it interfered
with the operation of the ball club.
One more thing about the deal for
Reggie Jackson—Gabe Paul, the
Yankees’ president, was said to have
vigorously opposed signing Jackson.
Paul claims that’s not so at all.
“I was one hundred per cent for
it,” he says. “Why, I even made the
first contact, calling him in the mid
dle of the flight in Phoenix. Our job
is to get talent and handle it. Look, I
happen to think Reggie Jackson is a
good fellow, but what we’re in
terested in is good ballplayers. If we
want nice boys, we ll go to the
church steps and find ‘em there.”
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