The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
DIZZY DEAN HAS RUINED TEAM BY LOOSE TALK
Frlsch and Players Want
 No Part of Eccentric Mound Ace
United Press Stan COrrespondent)

Limited Press Stan Correspondent
 Bradenton, Fla, March 10.--(UP) --Dizzy Dean may be the greatest pitcher in the world, and the loss of the Arkansas cotton picker might cost the team the 1o36 championship but the St. Louis Cardinals are not going to risk their future as @ team simply to satisfy Q man they con- sider the greatest malcontent in baseball.
 That, in 50 many words, is what Branch Hickey, general manager of the St. Louis club, told me after he had talked to the dissatisfied pitcher by telephone last night.
 Important
 "Our relationship" Hickey said, "is the same as 1t was when wrote him the now famous letter of Jan. g. Our difference is not one of money. You can forget about that. The issue is a much more important one than @ few thousand dollars. Believe me when I tell you that 1t involves not only the career of' Frank Trisch as manager, and the careers of the other twenty -eight players on the club, but the future of the Cardinals as Q team. To hire Dean as he now feels, and as he felt last year, and the year before, would be ruinous."
 What did Dizzy do last year that makes you, and I suppose MT. Breadon and Frisch, too, feel the s,,n, ., s,naa s1n1D ae1an
 Not only the three of us," Hickey answered, "but every player on the club as well. I don't mind telling you that there isn't man on the St. Louis team who wants Dizzy as a teammate unless there is Q radical s.hange in his attitude. won't tell you exactly the things he did, be- cause that's hanging out the teams linen too prominently. But suppose I create a player and give him ac- tions that parallel Deans of last year2"
 said that would be all right, fig- siring Hickey would hit pretty close Go the truth.
 Manager Gets Blame
 ''You've got player on your team" Rickey continued, "who second gueNses everything. Nothing satis- fies him. If you lose game when Q sacrifice fails, he says the manager should have told the batter to swing. If you fail to sacrifice he says the manager has lost five games In thrOe weeks by not sacrificing. If you catch a night train after a game, the player says you should have caught Q day one, and he won't ride on 1t. If it's a day train, he wants @ | night one. This same player asks the other players their salaries, and then tells them they're saps to work for % little, and if they'll just listen to him they'll get three times as much.
 "Thrce weeks before the end of the season, and with the club but one game out of first place, the player openly offers to bet his team- mates that the club won't win the pennant. Also, he tells half his mates that they won't work with him, and deliberately misplays balls 90 he'll lose the game.
 "How would you like that kind of a player on your team? What do y0u think 1t would do to the morale. You're right. It'll ruin 1t"
 One for All?
 I've tried treating him as an ec- centric genius for four years" he said, land all we got was misery. Mind you, and not trying to dis parage his ability, he's great pitch CT, and a tremendous drawing card, and he's Q very valuable piece of baseball property. But get this-as valuable as he is, he's not worth more than all other players put to- gether. Right now. it's the spirit of Dizzy Dean against the spirit of the Cards, and I can't tell you too strongly that we're not going to kill our team spirit for any individual.
 After all, we won four pcnnants in six years without Dizzy, and only one in four years with him. That's rot to say that he was to blame for our winning but one in four, but 1t does show that we can get along fairly well without him."
 (Copyright, 1036, By United Press)