THE BATTALION Page 15A
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1977
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letely novel transition, a period in
life when his subconscious some-
mes still urges him to get up and
q to the ballpark and his conscious
ays what for, nobody’s waiting
lere for him anymore.
The sudden change from major
ague superstar to simple everyday
rivate citizen never is an easy ad-
jstment for any ballplayer to make.
But it is nottl; omatter h° w much or how well he
* prepared for it in his own mind.
In the case of Bob Gibson, who
as so intense, so uncommonly
ommitted, during the 17 years he
itched for the St. Louis Cardinals,
he abrupt switch had to be more
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JiMtjvl “i (Jon’t have to work,” he was
aying one day this spring while
isiting his old ball club, the St.
ouis Cardinals, at their St.
’etersburg training quarters.
“That only goes so far and then
ou have to get something to do.
>all fans yesb'ou go nuts sitting around. I
le was takenh worked from 9 to 5 in a bank and
bought I was going to die. I wasn’t
Coach Ermil ised to the regimentation. ”
Gibson, who retired at the end of
lay s draft aiilgVS, holds more club records than
ard a broaden, myone who ever pitched for the
Ordinals. He won the most games,
!51, struck out the most batters,
117, pitched the most shutouts,
d at the offitt ig, and had the lowest earned run
iverage for any one season, 1.12.
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out there,” Gibson said to Mike
Shannon, who was one of his team
mates with the Cardinals and now is
one of their broadcasters.
“They never knew what really
was gong on inside me. I don’t know
that I could explain it. I was just
tense and hyper. Reporters realized
something was wrong with me.
They could see I didn’t want to talk
before I had to go out and pitch a
ball game. They thought I was being
an ass, that I was purposely being
difficult, but it wasn’t that at all. I’d
go home the night before a ball
game and I didn’t want to be around
anybody. It wasn’t that I was trying
so hard to concentrate; it was my
way of getting up.
“I remember one radio interview.
The fellow doing it started out by
saying, ‘Bob, we all know you’re not
an emotional person. . .’I stopped
him. T’m just as emotional as any
body else, I told him. Maybe I
didn’t show it, but a lotta things
bothered me, ate me up inside.
When I lost a ball game, I was the
hardest person in the world to get
along with....”
Gibson laughed.
Sitting there on the bench
alongside him. Shannon also
laughed.
“I know what you mean,” said the
Cards’ former third baseman. “I
remember us getting beat bad by
the Mets in St. Louis one day. It
was a big game for us, and when it
was over, I went out to get a pizza.
The girl who waited on me didn’t
really mean anything. She was only
trying to be polite. ‘How did you
fellows do today?’ she asked me.
‘Never mind,’ I hollered at her.
‘Just gimme the gahdamn pizza.’”
Gibson never fraternized with
any players from the other clubs
when he was with the Cardinals. He
was a loner. That was his way, al
most his trademark.
“I believed the less the other
team knew about me, the better off
I was,” he said. “I welcomed some
players thinking I was unfriendly
and a little bit mean. They weren’t
far from wrong. I was a little bit
mean.”
On the mound, yes; off it, never.
Bob Gibson doesn’t have a mean
bone in his whole body. He’s the
kind of person who’d give you the
shirt off his back, as long as he
wasn’t pitching against you. If he
was, he’d give you nothing.
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Since he quit pitching, the 41-
ear-old Gibson has been anything
II mtidle. He’s chairman of the board
if station KOWH in Omaha and
ice president of the Community
lank of Nebraska in that same city,
e also has done some baseball
roadcasting on TV, drawing a
ouple of critical notices for one of
be interviews he did with John
landelaria after the Pittsburgh
eft-hander no-hitted the Dodgers
sst August. “I wasn’t that bad, was
?” He was, although ordinarily he
besagood job in front of the mike.
Gibson says he has been much
lore relaxed since he left baseball,
nd it shows.
“Everybody thought I was so cool
nd nonchalant every time I went
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e third Masters Swim Meet at
exas A&M University.
Art Smith of Dallas and Jamee
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ryan, 65-69, were most prolific.
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