Page 16 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1960
McMullen: ‘did the right thing’
United Press International
HOUSTON — Houston Astros
owner John McMullen says the pre
sent storm at his door over the firing
of a general manager does not make
him uneasy for his position or his
pocketbook.
Fans talked of boycotts and peti
tions, and minority stockholders
talked of lawsuits the past two days
over McMullen’s unexplained re
placement of Tal Smith with Al
Rosen Monday. But McMullen said
there would be no long-term ill to
the performance or profitability the
team.
“The difference between winning
and losing is always made up of hard
decisions,” he said Wednesday. “I
honestly believe I did the proper
thing. I anticipated this type of up
roar. Perhaps I could not have pre
dicted the intensity of it. ”
Threats by “three or four” limited
partners to oust him were ground
less, he said.
“Obviously I’m discouraged a lit
tle bit by some of the attitude,” he
said. “But frankly I think it’s without
foundation. My disappointment is in
having it discussed in the press.”
An investors’ revolt was lots of talk
but little visible action.
A published report quoted a
source as saying a lawsuit would be
filed against McMullen in Texas,
New York and Delaware. The part
nership was chartered in Delaware.
General partner McMullen, his
family and friends own 33 percent of
the team. New York lawyer David
LeFevre owns another 10 percent
and 19 other Houston investors
share the rest.
LeFevre, the angriest of the li
mited partners, said: “The general
partner has a fiduciary responsibility
to the limited partners. That’s the
law everywhere. And so a contention
that a general partner has violated
that responsibility is one of the possi
bilities.”
McMullen’s office in the Astro
dome has been beseiged with irate
phone callers since he fired Smith
Monday. He has given no reason for
replacing Smith with ex-New York
Yankees president Al Rosen.
Smith has said he was fired be
cause, as the acknowledged architect
of the team, he received more credit
for the Astros’ championship this
season than did McMullen.
LeFevre said there was an infor
mal meeting of limited partners in
New York Wednesday, but he re
fused to say how many were involved
and where it was.
He was the man who interested
McMullen, a millionaire New York
shipbuilder who owned a limited
share of the Yankees, to buy the
Astros early in 1979. Now he is lead
ing the effort to oust him. Such a
move, LeFevre said, would take a
vote of 60 percent of the ownership.
McMullen finished a day-and-a-
half of separate interviews with re
porters Wednesday morning.
“I have no regrets,” he said.
LeFevre said the limited partners’
dismay at McMullen’s actions was
“unified,” but comments of five li
mited partners contacted by UPI in
Houston belied that description.
Three of them said they knew of no
plans to fight the firing. One, who
requested his name not be used, said
it was McMullen’s right to fire
Smith, but his “intuition” indicated
to him something was wrong and
since LeFevre got the group
together early in 1979, “I would de
fer to his judgment.”
Most of the limited partners were
unavailable or refused to return
phone calls.
“We are still underground and are
not gonna tip our hand to anybody,”
LeFevre said.
Don Sanders, senior vice presi
dent of E.'F. Hutton, said: “I don’t
think any of the limited partners to
my knowledge are hiding out. We re
trying to handle it carefully. None of
us are on a crusade against
McMullen.”
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J.R. recovering;
ready by Jan. 1
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Doctors say
that Houston Astros’ pitching ace
J.R. Richard, who underwent a com
plex series of blood vessel operations
less than two weeks ago, has started
running and will soon be throwing a
ball again.
The 30-year-old pitcher under
went surgery Oct. 14 at the Universi
ty of California Medical Center after
suffering a near-fatal stroke in Hous
ton last July.
Two surgical teams headed by
Dr. Edwin J. Wylie and Dr.
Ronald J. Stoney performed the de
licate 18-hour surgery Oct. 14 to
repair a major artery leading to the
6-foot-8-inch hurler’s pitching arm.
Dr. Wylie said Monday the artery
had been damaged by what is known
medically as a “thoracic outlet com
pression syndrome,” a condition
where greatly enlarged muscles
coupled with massive bone struc
ture create severe pressure on a
major artery.
The UC Medical Center teams
used an 8-inch arterial graft to repair
the artery, which they said is now
carrying blood freely from the pitch
er’s heart down into his lower right
In Richard’s case, said Wylie, it
was the scalenus anticus muscle that
had become overlarge due to pitch
ing and weight-lifting. As a result,
every time Richard raised his arm to
throw, the muscle pinched a seg
ment of the subclavian artery.
The repeated trauma over the
years caused a large clot to form in
side the artery, which eventually
lengthened and backed up to the
carotid artery — the crucial vessel
carrying blood to the brain.
It was the blocked carotid artery
that caused Richard’s stroke and
would have killed him without
surgery, Wylie said. It has also
caused some doctors to speculate
that Richard may be at the end of his
pitching career, although Wylie in
dicated only time will tell.
“But James Rodney Richard is re
covering rapidly,” Wylie said. “He
has a full range of motion in his arm
already. He wants to run now, and
we’re letting him. He wants to lift
weights again, and he will — very
soon. We expect him to be in full
activity by Jan. 1.”
Richard and his wife, who both
refused to talk with reporters, were
still in California Monday, but ex
pect to return to Houston in a day or
two.
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