Evening star., 1960-11-08
WIN, LOSE OR
DkAW By FRANCIS s1AAA
A Fans Mind at Work

WHO DOES JOE CRONIN think he is to put all that
stress on proper general manager in washington, and
yet promise so little in the way Of players? general
manager usually guy too old to pitch and he can't play
short and he can't hit.
Even the best one in the business George Weiss,
moved into semretrement by the Yankees the other day.
Tom Yawkey recently quoted saying general man
ayers supeuous The last he had for any period
OF time happened to be Cronin.
How sketchy provision can they think of for re-
placing entire ball club bad it most of the years?
Man and boy I've lived in this town for so years and
think Washington is getting rocked pretty good Why
should Mnneapolisst Paul start of with complete club
nearly first division with Camilo Pascual, Pete
Ramos, Harmon Kllebrew Bob Allison, Jim Lemon and
Earl Battey-and we have to start from scratch?
THIS TOWN is the first to be asked to start big
league team from scratch except the Los Angeles
entry IN the American League. But those LA people,
they've at least got Hank Greenberg heading up the front
office. Hanks been around. So have General Ewood R.
Petel Quesada and Admiral John j. Bergen, but not in
the same places.
About every franchise can remember being
awarded carried with 1t functioning organized club Oh
they weren't necessarily good teams like in the
kansas City, but they functioning and organized
Yet even Kansas City, with such start, hasn't done
well.
Look at that National League football team in
Dallas, Texas. All the Texans wanted a franchise
they said Money and know-how they had a-penty But
the Dallas NFL club is the only team in both pro football
leagues that hasn't won game The Texans o. and
even the Redskins beat em.
And with Illustration has decline In attendance
Dallas had only $4,000 last Sunday smallest crowd Of the
year You have 10000 people in the Cotton Bowl and it
looks like a set-up for pinochle game
WHY DON'T THE NEW District of Columbia Stadium
authorities the press the civic groups and most of ALL
politicians The H who claim to have been looking
down the throat of baseball put little Presi
dent Cronn and the eight Established American League
owners?
The WaV T VIZ bipofor has
League BARREL not the other way around. The AL
has guaranteed club n the seat Of national
ment but hasn't said what kind of club The hell with it,
they're going to stock the 1861 Senators with bunch
OF cus If they want to go greedy let's skip the whole
season Of 81 and If the National League guys have
anything better in mind.
What I'm thinking is that up to the plans for
stocking new club in Washington and Los Angeles not
mention any farm teams, are pretty vague.
What Is 1t each club would set aside Is "untouch-
ables" from which the clubs would not be per-
mitted to draw Then there would be limited number Of
choices from the rest of the roster.
THE WAY FIGURE the Washington club will start
low and stay low for generation to We haven't
had rstdivision club since 1946-thats when we got
fourth-but we've had five cellar clubs and how much bad
baseball can town stomach?
The plans hear about for restocking the Senators and
the new Los Angeles team goofy Sure, after the
Yankees withhold their IS untouchabes" there might be
some among the leftover guys who might be useful But
Kansas City who wants much after their first five
touchabes?"
One way of restoring the Senators and stocking the
L. A. club might be for Mr. Cronn and his eight club
owners to agree that say 16 ouchables" put in the
grab bag Leave say star players from each team
Put hefty price on them, of course Although why
the Washington should be denied reparaton
for losing whole club is incomprehensibe Let's Just
that from this select group the Senators and the
Angeles club would be allowed to buy three at for
instance, 100000 apiece.
But that would be too much to expect Of the estab-
shed cubowners who used to calling the tunes Any
way 1t still wouldn't take of stocking the Washing
ton Los Angeles farms Oh boy this expansion bus-
calls for long road, all uphill.