Evening star., 1955-07-19
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW ;, FRANCE, ,74up
va Gotto Have Heart

OUT IN KANSAS CITY the other day, tnick-waisted
guy probably pitching for his baseball life Victories
have been few and far between Shea these
couple of seasons and there to believe the
staf1an veteran was thin ice The only he
starting for the first time this that the Senators
sorely crippled.
Il figured he might last five or six innings" Manager
Chuck Dresser admitted Shea who'll be SO in October
lasted the distance yielded only three hits the
Athletics in joke ball park where sxrun inning routine
lhls was not the kind of shutout that Bob Turley
Herb Score might pitch They have great balls
power hters They afford to make mistake here and
there because of this advantage
Shea couldn't make Slip With high hard one any
longer Spec had to clip the with his and
siders He had to make the opposition hit to his felders
such as they In short, Shea had to be master
SHEA is A COMIC mimic and practical jokester He
doesn't look much like athlete that because he is
inclined to fat he could pitched often would
have helped, but Shea has plagued by trouble
almost constantly since his rookie of 1947 with the
Yankees.
Off the field Shea is funny When he is pitching
he is grim warrior about 20 per ability these days
and the other so cent heart savvy
up to the big leagues he spent three the Army
almost was eliminated for keeps ball player gasoline
explosion in Normandy
Bucky Harris, who was managing the Yankees in 1e47
went overheard for Shea at first glance There other
pitchers who faster had better breaking stuff
Bucky liked this brash rookie with his mmcry of like
Daggo and Keller his water pistol in the clubhouse his
Durante Groucho Marx muStacheS inntum
Fourteen big Shea for Bucky that season.
against only five losses and he might have his
arm had been strong all the time BY the way Shea also
was the winning AStar pitcher in his rookie year.
CAME THE WORLD SERIES of AT and Harris put his
faith again in the young Iishman Three times used
him against the Dodgers and Spec without
Needless to the Yankees although required
full seven games to decide the title
Here's what like him." Harris used to tell re-
porters "He doesn't ask Who do I pitch against? He
asks, When am ptching?
Hes got it here Bucky would expand tapping the left
side of his breastbone the heart HE doesn't
easily If he gets into trouble he doesn't swallow his cud
Dizzy Dean recognized Sheas special talents his
broadcastng booth in ST. Louis when after Spec had
his seventh straight from the Browns AZ, he said:
There's the best doggone pitcher in this here
park this year. Right he's got that Feer and New
houser licked Easy smooth Chucking tight all the time
Just like ole Dz used to be. Doggone."
SHEA NEVER HAD SUCH year his rookie He
couldn't win for losing thereafter and dfted to Newark and
Kansas City. Next time he winner of sort in
1882 when he up with Harris again Washington
and posted ILL., Then 1877 in 49, Last year he may have
survived only because Harris have figured he owed Shea
debt Spec two lost and his earned-run average
horrendous 62l.
For same reason-respect for what Shea had done
and might have doneDessen have stuck by the ro
poly rght-hander this Shea used only sparngy
than three innings and his feat the other day
could amount only triumph of heart matter and
diminishing skills.
At point in the last inning, when 1t seemed that
Shea in trouble and 40 lead in Kansas City being
fragile it is Dresser interpreted considering
a relief pitcher Chuck had about as much chance of
removing Shea he has of mpeaching Eisenhower. 1t
Specs game and everybody knew it, including Dresser
In the Broadway hit show Damn Yankees" there is
Fasaian performer who Senators uniform and is
remndfu of Shea but the hit tune Ya Gotta Heart
To truth