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if we want togd stday of the regular season by
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we can win." tow to them, then nailing down
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it especially well with all those
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rters of the Brewers in Mil-
aukee, it was positively perfect
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sie Busch.
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He never talks about it, but
nany in baseball still remember
known 10 years ago with a public
statement, and subsequently
approved the deal which sent fu
ture Hall of Earner Steve Carl
ton to the Philadelphia Phillies.
For a time Busch had his fill of
baseball. Later, however, his en
thusiasm for both the game and
his players manifested them
selves again.
You should have seen him
Wednesday night in the Cardin
als’ clubhouse, proud as punch
over what his “boys” had done.
He glowed as he stood on a
raised wooden platform along
with his manager, Whitey Her
zog, catcher Darrell Porter, the
World Series MVP, and General
Managerjoe McDonald, waiting
for Bowie Kuhn to present the
ornate world championship tro
phy to the winning World Series
team.
“I don’t know what to say,”
said Herzog in accepting the tro
phy. “I feel about as good as you
can feel. I’m just happy to bring
the championship to St. Louis
and Mr. Busch.”
Porter hadn’t had time to take
off his catching gear yet.
“This was the most fun I’ve
ever had in baseball,” Porter
said.
Someone told him that he had
been named the World Series
MVP.
“I appreciated it,” he said. “I
love it. This whole thing is so
exciting, so wonderful, I can’t
believe it.”
Later, after the presentation
ceremony was over and he had
stepped down from the plat
form, Busch was confronted by
Bud Selig, the Brewers’ owner.
Selig, 48, looks like a boy along
side Busch. His eyes were misty
Your team played very well and
you, your manager and your
players are to be congratulated.”
“Thank you,” Busch replied.
“You are a great sport to come
over and tell me all this.”
On his way back to the Brew
ers’ quarters, Selig, who brought
major-league baseball back to
Milwaukee 13 years ago, said he
was disappointed but very
proud of his team.
“It was a great year for us,”
said the Brewers’ owner. “We
won our division, we won the
pennant, and we went to seven
games in the World Series. We
came within one game of win
ning it all. I guarantee you there
will be another time. We’ll be
back.”
Among the celebrants in the
Cardinals’ quarters was Red
Schoendienst, a coach with them
now who managed them the last
time they won a world cham
pionship in 1967.
“This has been my seventh
World Series and every one of
them has gone seven games,” he
said. “There’s no feeling in the
world like winning a World
Series.”
as he congratulated the older
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Battalion/Page 17
October 21, 1982
Martin firing
ends Billyball
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OAKLAND — If Billy Martin
decides to manage in 1983 —
and there is a chance he might
decide to sit the year out —
chances are it will be with the
Cleveland Indians, but don’t bet
he doesn’t wind up tith the New
York Yankees for a third time.
Those are the only two clubs
which have shown interest in the
much-traveled Martin, who was
fired from his sixth job Wednes
day by the Oakland A’s. Indians
President Gabe Paul, an old
friend, already has talked once
with Martin — while he was still
the A’s manager — and chances
are he will talk with him again,
and very soon.
Martin was fired twice by the
Yankees and now once each by
the Minnesota Twins, Detroit
Tigers, Texas Rangers and A’s.
Oakland President Roy
Eisenhardt gave Martin, whose
contract runs through 1985, the
bad news Wednesday and said
he would honor their agree
ment.
So Martin is not exactly pen
niless. Over the next three years,
should he decide not to work, he
will collect a total of $750,000. In
addition, there is a $600,000
home in Blackwood, an Oakland
suburb, that was given to him
outright by the A’s a year ago in
a gesture of gratitude for turn
ing the Oakland franchise
around.
But as in every other city
where he has managed, Martin
wore out his welcome with the
A’s and Eisenhardt, in announc
ing his firing, said “one must
recognize the inevitability of
change as a solution for difficult
circumstances, even when no
party may seek or want a
change.”
That was Eisenhardfs polite
way of saying the A’s no longer
could afford Martin’s behavior
no matter how much he had
done to improve the club.
At the bottom of Eisenhardt’s
decision to fire Martin was the
latter’s insistence on keeping old
players past their prime because
they were his friends, an inci
dent in which he walked out in
the middle of a game because he
was upset at the way the A’s were
playing, and, a temper tandrum
in which Martin wrecked his
ballpark office when the club re
fused to renegotiate his con
tract.
So, now Martin is gone from
Oakland, and the search begins
for a replacement.
Under reorganization,
Eisenhardt plans to move in and
assume some of the general
manager’s duties, which Martin
also administered, with the help
of a seasoned adviser, probably
Bill Rigney.
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