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UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK — Nobody knows Billy
Martin better than George Steinbrenner.
That’s what he thinks anyway.
“He has a history,” Steinbrenner once
said. “He’ll take over a club that’s not
doing so well and move it up quickly the
way he did with Minnesota, Detroit and
Texas, but then the club will go to pieces.
That’s his history. It wasn’t any different
herewith the Yankees. He’s great when it
comes to motivating the players but after
awhile, I don’t know what it is — he just
can’t do it anymore.”
Twice, Steinbrenner had Martin in his
employ and twice he has let him go.
In 1979, the year before Martin took
them over, the A’s finished last in the
American League West. His first year
with the club, Martin boosted Oakland all
the way to second place and in last year’s
split season, he got the A’s into the play
offs.
This year, though, it all came apart.
The A’s have no chance of finishing bet
ter than fifth and “Billyball” is only a
vague memory.
■ Martin’s contract has three years to go
with the A’s, but his bosses, Roy
Eisenhardt and Wally Haas, won’t stand
in his way if the Yankees and the Indians
would like him to manage for them.
Eisenhardt has clearly demonstrated
how the A’s feel about that by giving his
permission to both Steinbrenner and
Gabe Paul to speak with Martin.
If Steinbrenner could get Martin to
manage the Yankees again, it would take
some of the pressure off for the wretched
showing the club made this year. And if
Paul manages to sign Martin, he’d at least
be doing something about the flagging
interest in Cleveland about the Indians.
Steinbrenner, naturally, has the better
chance of the two to get Martin for any
number of reasons, not the least of which
is that Martin has always considered him
self a Yankee first, last and always.
“They remind me of two moths going
after a flame trying to destroy them
selves,” one veteran front-office man
said. “They can’t live with each other and
they can’t live without each other. From
what I hear, the people running the Oak
land ball club will throw a party the day
Billy leaves.”
As for Oakland officials’ response to
that statement, all they would say is “no
comment.” Gabe Paul said the same
thing. Suddenly, everyone’s saying “no
comment” as if some major crime has
been committed, when all that has hap
pened is that Steinbrenner and Paul have
both asked permission to negotiate with
Martin and that permission has been
granted.
That’s no crime.
Martin is the one responsible for the
story getting out. He told the Oakland
Tribune the Yankees and Indians had
asked permission of the A’s to talk to him
and he planned to talk to both Steinbren
ner and Paul.
From the sound of it, Martin is con
veying the impression he wants to go. On
the other hand, he’s not that happy about
the A’s giving their permission so easily.
He gets the feeling they’re trying to tell
him something.
If he does manage the Yankees a third
time, he’ll still have one more time to go
before equaling the late Danny Mur-
taugh’s record. Murtaugh piloted the Pi
rates four different times. Apart from
Murtaugh, Bucky Harris is the only man
ever to manage the same club as many as
three times. He did that with the old
Washington Senators.
“Every time Bucky got fired, Clark
Griffith felt badly about it,” Twins’ own
er Calvin Griffith says about his late un
cle and adopted father. “Clark never
could forget Bucky was the ‘Boy Wonder’
who managed the Senators to a world
championship in 1924 and to a pennant
again the next year. Clark was very sen
timental about it.”
Padres down Astros
behind ‘hot’ pitcher
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Padres pitcher Tim
Lollar, plagued with a slight fever, said he ex
pected to get “kicked” by the Houston Astros.
Instead, he became only the fourth pitcher in
the history of the Padres franchise to win 15
games in a season as San Diego downed the Astros
3-0 Tuesday night.
“Lollar went out there with a 101.6 fever,” said
San Diego manager Dick Williams. “The last thing
he told (pitching coach Norm) Sherry is Til prob
ably get my rear kicked tonight.’
“In the sixth, when he walked two batters and I
sent Norm out to the mound, he asked if he could
start the inning over and take his eight warmup
throws again.”
Lollar, 15-9, who went seven innings and gave
up only four hits: “I didn’t think I would have too
much. I had pretty good control, but as far as I’m
concerned, that’s all I had. For the past few days,
I’ve had a really bad sore throat and the glands in
my neck have been inflamed. I’ve had all the
general flu symptoms.”
On the overall season, Lollar said: “I felt there
were no limitations as to what I could do. Games
like tonight help. You don’t have anything when
you go out there, but you manage to win anyway.
I’ve let some games get away from me that I
shouldn’t have. I think I can improve.
“The only goal I have is to make this team a
contender year in and year out. We’re the only
team in the division that hasn’t won (the division
title). Next year and the year after, we’re going to
be a team to reckon with.”
San Diego came alive in the seventh when pinch
hitter Kurt Bevacqua singled off Knepper’s glove
to score Luis Salazar from third base and ignite a
three-run inning.
Salazar opened the inning with a single to
center and raced to third as George Hinshaw leg
ged out a roller towards third. Bevacqua then
bounced back to the mound and the ball kicked
off Knepper’s glove for a hit as Salazar scored the
game’s first run.
Hinshaw reached second on the play and even
tually scored on an error by first baseman Ray
Knight. A single by Gene Richards drove in Be
vacqua with the third run of the inning.
Luis DeLeon pitched the final two innings,
allowing only one hit to earn his 15th save.
NFL players on winning streak,
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — On a win-
, .mg streak, the NFL Players
telew .ssociation upped its record to
-0 Tuesday in unfair labor-
tractice disputes with the
ague.
A National Labor Relations
Soard administrative law judge
ufedthe NFLts, guvky of unfair
labor practices for refusing to
|ive the union copies of player
Joutracts and non-monetary de
fuse iipails of network television con-
acts.
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oraakt Council, the league’s negotiat-
llowdi hg arm, said it will appeal the
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the
ruling to the full NLRB.
While “ecstatic” over the deci
sion of Judge Julius Cohn, Ed
Garvey, union executive dire
ctor, agreed the appeal could
keep the matter unresolved for a
year or more.
“This is just a recommenda
tion by an administrative law
judge,” said Jim Miller, spokes
man for the NFLMC. “These re
commendations are routinely
overturned.”
Two previous NLRB rulings
also went against the NFL.
Garvey said he wants related
agreements and memoranda
leading to the signing of the
NFL’s contracts with the three
major television networks.
“We want to know if there was
a ‘What happens in case of a
strike?’ clause either in the con
tract, or in a memo leading to
the contract,” said Garvey. “We
know the networks are paying
the league for games not tele
vised and we’re reasonbly sure
of the amounts. We want to
know the details of the pay
ments.
Garvey said the union may
sue the networks for financing
the current strike, or choose to
picket them. He said the picket
ing would be an attempt to shut
down the networks because un
ion employees would not cross
the picket lines.
If the NLRB rules the work
stoppage an unfair labor prac
tice strike, all players on strike
would be guaranteed their jobs
when it ends and would be paid
for games not played during the
strike.
Contract negotiations are to
resume Thursday afternoon in
Washington. The last talks were
held Sunday in New York with
no substantial progress.
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id no fin
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unda ^ suited up as professional basketball player
e stn . The 33-year-old former Boston Celtic star Tuesday practiced in
1 soin , ihe morning session of the Milwaukee Bucks’ rookie and free-
| sgent camp even though he does not have to report until Saturday
sun ‘4 with other veterans.
play 111 ! “\y e deeded quite a while ago I should spend a few days with
am ™ i l)im before (regular) camp and he wanted to come,” said Coach
ml p Don Nelson, a former teammate of Cowens at Boston.
stiKl0 j . Cowens quit two years ago, citing a number of nagging physical
lturd , a l ftnries and a lack of desire to continue playing after spending
sc I J^orethan adecade as one of the league’s most dominating players.
jsaa 1 The biggest question mark is his health.
li ’J^ uc ^- s g ave U P point guard Quinn Buckner in gambling
lle^jJICowens can shake off the layoff.
a -M/Kelson, who runs rugged training camps and stresses fitness,
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fhat I saw, he will be like a typical veteran coming into camp who
fs worked in the off-season.”
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™ he sees as a power forward and not a center, so he can
Produce him to the Bucks’ system.
!* Nelson said he expects a decision by today from the Philadelphia
'Hers on what they will do about Steve Mix.
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