Evening star., 1960-05-25
THE BASEBALL
B AT
A Boy for q Man
BY BURTON HAWKINS

since Frank Lane traded the darling of the
Rocky Colavito to the Tigers for Harvey Kuenn. No
longer is the Indians general being hung in
egy, but he admits there is occasional sniping from
the more rabid of Rockys followers.
II like the deal better than when first made It,,
Lane said. I'm not gloatlng, because Coavito will do
better than the 161 he's hitting He'll hit 80 or IS home
and bat 255 260 Right he's trying too hard
He's pressing and must admit that's all right with me-
Rocky will give 100 per cent at all times. He's good
hustler His habits perfect But he's bad baserunner
He has strong arm but he's wild so the effectiveness OF
the is diminished
Lets say slugger like Rocky goes to bat 900 times
and hits 40 home He's swinging for home runs all
the time, you know that's $50 times he's not doing
what he's supposed to do Look Rocky had the best year
of his life 195S He hit Al home runs, bated in 1ls
and had 1903 average We finished sixth and drew
$4,000 people Last year wound up second and drew
is million.
EXCEPT IN RARE CASES, the individual doesn't
count" Lane continued you've got to win. Oh sure,
there are guys who will draw. Babe Ruth, Joe Dl
Maggie, Willie Mays or Bob Feler When Bobby snanI
was hot he was something to see. And want to tell
you that Camilo Pascual could be terrific drawing caro-
for Washington. He should be-theres nobody better
around. His curve is worth paying to see.
81 can understand people saying, Let's do down to
the ball park and watch Colavito slam a home run
They're not going to say Let's go watch Kuenn hit
double and single. But generally it's the team enort
that counts you win draw Kuenn figures TO nep
win more games than Coavito traded boy ana goS
"Joe Gordon Gndians' manager) started talking about
making that deal last July" Lane said. He mace tne
proposition to Jimmy Dykes Detroit manager) IN De-
ceber and Dykes turned it down. We kicked around
again in March This time Herb Score was in the deal
for one of the Tigers pitchers The Tigers had Fellows
watching in exhibitions three or four times ana
he got beted around Dykes asked, with logic on MS
side If can't pitch for Cleveland, how is ne going
to win for Detroit?
$50 we dropped the pitchers from the deal and made
It, Gordon dying for fear we wouldn't I'm satisfied
Kuenn hitting 308 leg. He shouldn't be playing
but he wants be in there. He's that type of The
Tigers benched Colavito Sunday and won couple OF
games, but he'll help them later.
mo, I MADE ANOTHER deal that created more of
an uproar than that When with the Cardinals
sent Red Schoendienst to the Giants and got AL Dark
I trading fine, popular player who resident
of st. Louis Red adored but all know is that it
helped to the Cardinals from seventh to fourth to
second. That's how much Dark meant to U.S.
"The world thrives controversy. Anybody trade
the fringe guys but in awhile you have to take the
big gamble You can't run scared.
"Cal Grifnth made himself hell of deal when he
traded Roy Sievers 1t took guts but think Sievers
has about had and he made the deal at the right time
Earl Batey figures to be great receiver for
where they're sending Don Mncher out, but he'll hit
have around. Maybe he could have gotten more for
Severs but I'd have to say Cal is looking good that
WASHINGTON is MUCH better ball club. Billy
Gardner gives the team respecabty at second base.
Allison Lemon and Kilebrew will do hitting. With
Pascual or Ramos pitching it's tough club to beat.
Il thought that remarkable what Ramos did
Sunday in Chicago. Knocked unconscious before the
first game asks to pitch the second and wins it, He had
the perfect out. He knew he heading into tough
game against Pierce and against the league leaders He
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