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Page 12 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1979 Viewpoint Staub needs talking to By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor NEW YORK — If he’s serious about sitting out the season and not playing for Detroit, which I doubt. Rusty Staub ought to pick up the telephone and have a little talk with Rufus Gentry, who did the same thing 34 years ago but doesn’t go along at all with what Staub is doing now. Staub claims he’s not looking for any more money. Not now, anyway. What he’s looking for is a three-year extension on his present $600,000 contract which still has this year plus another one to run, When they open the season, the Tigers will place Staub on either the disqualified or restricted list. But they can activate him almost as soon as he decides to report. Personally, I don’t think it’ll be that long before he does. On one hand, the Tigers’ redhaired, 35- year-old designated hitter talks about some vague seven-figure re staurant deal he’s supposed to be involved in and on the other hand, he keeps working out every day in Houston, running and swinging a leaded bat. That’s a funny way to — run a restaurant, isn’t it? Originally, Staub set March 16 as a deadline for the Tigers to meet his terms. Well, the deadline came and went without Staub getting any an swer. To me, he seems to be looking for a face-saving device now so he can report. Just go around and check some of those restaurant owners you know. See how many expect to make $200,000 this year. k Figures like that absolutely bog gle Rufus Gentry’s mind. Gentry, a 12-game winner for the Tigers in 1944, his first full year with them, held out all of 1945 because they wouldn’t give him a $2,000 raise he wanted. When I tracked him down in Daisy Station, N.C., Tuesday, he told me if it was simply a matter of Rusty Staub asking for more money, he’d be all for him. “I’ve seen him on TV and he’s a good hitter,” said the former De troit pitcher. “He wants an exten sion on his contract, though, and I don’t go along with that. Once you sign a contract, you should stick to it.” Of his own case Gentry said, “I’d do it again,” with undiminished conviction. Instead of signing and joining the | Tigers, he remained in Daisy Sta- 1 tion laying bricks and at least showed them he had the courage of his convictions. They won the pen nant that season without him. The following year. Gentry finally signed — for $10,000. The Tigers sent him to their Buffalo farm in the International League without cut ting his salary and by July he already had won 15 games. “Two other guys on the club, Floyd Giebell and Tom Pullig, were supposed to get $1,000 bonuses if they won 15 games, and after I did, I asked the general manager, John Stiglmeier, for the same bonus,” Gentry remembers. “He said he’d give it to me at the end of the season and I asked him to put it in writing. ‘Do you think I’d lie to you?’ he said. T haven’t lied to you yet.’ I said that was right but $1,000 might make him lie. He never did put any thing in writing and after I finished the season with a 20-and-16 record, I never got the money. I just got beat out of it. ” Rusty Staub ought to talk to Rufus Gentry sometime. 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