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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. He’d get an ear
ful, guaranteed.
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