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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1979
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Winfield blasts his pitchers
United Press International
NEW YORK — Dave Winfield
doesn’t happen to be one of those
guys with a short fuse. He has a
rather gentle nature, a relatively
soft voice and the kind of basic re
straint that lets him put up with a lot
of people pulling on his coat.
This time, though, he was fed up.
He was steaming over what had
happened and he simply wasn’t
going to take it anymore. Enough
was enough, and in this particular
case it was too much.
Bob Forsch, the hard-throwing
St. Louis Cardinals’ right-hander,
had almost gotten himself a trophy
— Dave Winfield’s head. Forscb
had let go with one of his best heat
ers right at Winfield’s skull. The San
Diego right fielder’s helmet went
one way and his legs another. He
bailed out in a hurry, yet not a sec
ond too soon.
When he went to his outfield po
sition in the next half of the inning,
Winfield was still steaming. Not so
much over what Forsch had done as
what his own pitchers hadn’t done
to protect him.
The more Winfield thought about
it, the angrier he became. This
wasn’t an isolated incident. He had
been knocked down many times be
fore and hadn’t seen any retaliation
by the Padres’ pitchers. That was
contrary to “the code” which says
your team’s pitchers are suppose to
knock down the other guys’ hitters
after his team’s pitchers throw at
you.
As soon as the Cards were retired
and Winfield got back to the dug-
out, he did an uncharacteristic thing
for him. He spoke up, and he did it
angrily.
“If you guys don’t begin protect
ing me, I’m ^onna kick some ears
around here,’ he growled. “I’m not
foolin’ around. I mean it. You guys
don’t make me money; I make YOU
money. If I don’t play because I get
hit in the head, you won’t make any
money and don’t you forget that.”
Nobody in the dugout said a
word. Dave Winfield was really let
ting go, frogs and snakes were com
ing out of his mouth.
Gaylord Perry, who isn’t adverse
to brushing back enemy hitters now
and then to protect his own hitters,
was sitting close to Winfield when
the Padres’ slugger sounded off in
San Diego three weeks ago and so
was Eric Rasmussen, but neither
was pitching that day.
Randy Jones sitting farther down
the bench, was. He wasn’t throwing
at anyone, though, but when you
talk to Winfield about the lack of
protection he’s getting, he doesn’t
single out any of the Padres’ pitch
ers in particular but tends, instead,
to lump them all together.
Some Cardinal players got wind
of Winfield’s blow-up and a couple
of them told him privately, “You
know something, you’re right.”
The following day, Roger Craig,
the Padres’ manager, held a meet
ing with all his pitchers, went over
some of the things Winfield had said
in the dugout and endorsed them.
If the Padres were to lose Dave
Winfield, they also would lose the
heart of their offense at the same
time. Headed for his third All-Star
game next week, the 6-foot-6, 220-
pound longballer from St. Paul,
Minn., leads all San Diego’s regu
lars in hitting, with his .318 average,
in RBI, with 66, and in homers,
with 19.
His two-run single in the third
inning off Kevin Kobel Sunday gave
the Padres their third and fourth
runs in a 5-3 first game victory over
the Mets, and he picked up another
hit in a 4-1 second game loss.
But Winfield’s worth to San
Diego isn’t entirely wrapped up in
his bat. He can run, throw and field
as well, and someone like Joe Torre,
the Mets’ manager, says Winfield
rates one-two with Pittsburgh’s
Dave Parker among the best all-
around performers in the league.
One of the problems the Padres
have is that Winfield carries the
bulk of their offense practically all
Oiler vets arriving, at camp early
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SAN ANGELO — Safety J.C.
Wilson and wide receiver Robert
Woods became the 13th and 14th
veterans to join Houston Oilers’
workouts Monday but one rookie
extended his holdout to one week.
Mike Stensrud from Iowa State
has not shown up at the Angelo
State University facility due to a
contract dispute. Reportedly, he
sought a four-year contract but the
Oilers were not willing to give him a
contract of that length.
After a morning practice, offen
sive line coach Joe Bugel com
plimented defensive tackles Jesse
Baker and Jim Mol.
“Jesse Baker is doing an excellent
job. We feel he is going to be an
excellent football player. And Jim
Mol is doing well also,” Bugel said.
Baker and Stensrud were
second-round draft choices. Mol is a
second-year pro and one of many
young veterans who have increased
the number of players practicing to
70.
Veterans do not have to report to
camp until July 18. Those already
practicing were Conrad Rucker,
Richard Anderson, Eddie Foster,
Johnny Dirden, John Schumacher,
Tommy Duniven, Gifford Nielsen,
Guido Merkens, Jim Young, Jimmy
Dean, Al Johnson and Toni Fritsch.
Veterans Rob Carpenter and
George Reihner are in camp but not
practicing.
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alone on his back. That makes it
easier for opposing pitchers to pitch
around him and tougher for Win
field to get good pitches.
Still, he tries not to let any of it
upset him.
Big on doing things for kids, he
invited thousands of them to last
year’s All-Star game in San Diego at
his expense and he’s doing the same
thing again for this year’s game in
Seattle.
He already has sent special in
vitations to the All-Star players to
join his party for the kids. The shin
dig costs him somewhere around
$10,000 and it’s all part of the David
M. Winfield Foundation the 27-
year-old outfielder has set up for
underprivileged children.
Winfield paid the way in for hun
dreds of kids at Shea Stadium for
Sunday’s doubleheader with the
Mets. They sat in the right field
mezzanine and strung up a banner
which said “Winfield’s Pavilion.”
None of the Mets’ pitchers threw
at Winfield Sunday. They probably
didn’t want to disturb him anymore
than absolutely necessary. He has a
point, though, when he says his
pitchers should protect him. If they
don’t, they’re likely to hear from
him again.
“Sometimes,” he says, breaking
into a smile, “it helps to have one of
those ‘motivational conferences.”
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