Evening star., 1960-07-12
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Not Quite Like q World Series

NEW YORK, JULY 12-Had it been a World Series
game the chances that young Bill Monbouquette would
have been given the hook after his first dozen ASar
pitches. Even by Aphonso Ramon Lopez, manager of
infinite patience.
AS 1t was, Lopez apparently felt he had to go to
reasonable limit with the Red Sox highlander starter
and loser to the National League. For all those fancy
names his squad, Lopez came up with the pitching
shorts because many Of hurlers had worked
the week end for their clubs.
An-Star managers have been subject criticism
since the first annual spectacle in 1888. Seven other
managers in each league looking the shoulders
of the AStar geniuseS lest they Of their top
boys with insufficient rest Now that there two AL
Star games year the pilots are doubly Shackled
4 Monbouquette and Gary Bell of the Indians had the
most rest of any Of Lopezs pitchers They hadn't pitched
since last Friday and here it Monday Bell retired
the hitters later faced relief but Monbouquetts
had nothing
OF HIS FIRST three pitches, one was blasted for a
triple by Willie Mays and another for scorching,
producing single by Bob Skinner few throws later Ernie
Banks crashed home and it 80 Nationals In
the second inning Del Crandall homered and it 40
before Lopez excused his starter because rout
conceivable.
AL not only used Bell, but also Chuck Estrada of the
Orioles Jim Coates of the Yankees Frank Larry of the
Tigers and Bud Daley Of the Athletics all of whom pitched
either Saturday Sunday 1t is significant that all
young men who Lopez felt could better withstand an
ouofturn stint and the 100degree weather in Kansas
City than such veterans his Early Wynn and Gerry
Staey and Whitley Ford of the Yankees.
Wynn and Ford, along with Dick stgman of the In
dians had worked Sunday staey, crack eefer of the
White Sox, worked both Saturday and Sunday He is
pushing 40. Wynn is past 40 and Fords next birthday
will be his SD In addition to their years and the heat
there the realization by Lopez that each key man
in the pennant
1t can be logically argued that Walt Aston, the
National League manager working under similar
restrictions. In Smokey's it didn't show much
because thanks in good to Bob Friend and Roy
Face of the Pirates, he won.
FRIEND PITCHED THREE fine innings and Aston's
hitters,' chiefly Mays, Banks and Crandal, sent the
Nationals off to SO lead When the Americans began
to get tough in the sixth inning Face who had pitched
the day before doused the fire with basesloaded double
play pitch to Luis Aparicio and three upthree down
seventh inning.
Summed up Friend better, experienced
starter than Monbouquete while Face accustomed to COM
ing out of the bupen at all hours of the day and night
had couple of good innings in his system usual.
This is not to excuse the Americans entirely, to
deride the claim of National LeaguerS that theirs is
superior league The AL has been smacking of weak
circuit for seasons With no dsparagement intended
the Senators tend to the point With four maybe
five TripeA players in the lineup not counting pitchers
Washington has % of its last 80 games and cobbered
both the leading Yankees and the conending Orioles
when last matched
SINCE 1850 the National Leaguers have had all the
better of it in the Asar They four straight
stretch and counting yesterday in Kansas City
have taken eight Of the last IL Yet the Americans still
lead 1912
Tomorrow the clubs go at it again in Yankee
Stadium with the starting neups but with perhaps
Lopez getting better pitching break than yesterday
Wynn, Ford and staley should be ready for couple
innings apiece.
But Aston, too has pitchers he didn't in Missouri
Two are his Dodgers, Johnny Podres and Stan Viii
ams Two Larry Jackson and Lindy McDane
of the Cardinals Maybe by that time, too, the Tv com
mentators will up with the proper information wher
they introduce the Al-Stars.
Curt Gowdy Boston announcer, credited" Roger
Maris with 274 average when it really is 800. In thu
next breath he called Mickey Mantle 274 hitter, bthe
deducting points But Bill Skowrons he boosted
the Yankee first baseman to "316 This time, had Gowd
said .274, he would have been correct
Like Monbouquette, Curt didn't have especially
good day.