Evening star., 1962-09-01

You Can't
Win En- All
By MORRIS SIEGEL

Among the pluses Jimmy Piersall has going for him
is the ability to stimulate and generate interest He is not
the type who breeds indifference Knock him, was
done rather brisky here recently and the proPiersa
faction wants your blood.
Praise him. as has not been done here recently, and
you've got the ant-Persa segment to contest There is
middle road in dealing with this man. You're either
for him or agin' him.
The suggestion made in this space that Piersal has
not turned be the to the Senator'S plight
produced mail to this bureau than anything since
the Internal Revenue Service began correspondence
an entirely unrelated matter Here are few samples:
"As Washington Senator's fan and Jimmy Piersan
fan would like to voice my objection to your column in
The Star, August 81, called "Persa Proving Gigantic
Flop"
you must be hard up for material. In your column
another paper of october 1861 you referred to him
as a piece Of excitement and rated him Of the
greatest defensive centerfelders in modern baseball
coorfu and competent player The pattern Of his antics
on the field didn't change when he put on Senators
uniform Why did your opinion change? Is he too much
for you2"
Joan Fitzpatrick
Riverdale, Md.
Maybe, Miss Fitzpatrick he is too much for me- But
Oopdnt be nicer for all concerned, Jimmy, he
mere too much for opposing pitchers as oeH? His batting
average indicates they knoU HON to handle him.
This old broken down, one-tme sports writer says
amen to your piece on Piersal"
John W. farrell,
Chief, Washington Bureau,
sfe Omaha World Herald.
Thanks, John. Think Ptcrsau might contribute to
fund for old, broken-doDn sports iOrttsrs?
you've got lot of jumping Jim Piersall.
He's the most exciting, most important competent ball.
player Washington has had in years
III bet you there are at least seven or eight other
teams that would give anything to have him. It's grpers
like who encourage Persa to do the things he does
like that nose -thumbng incident in Los Angeles
why don't you lay off Piersal and Jump on George
Marshall for changer"
Eric Tyler,
Annapolis Md.
II encouraged PiersaH to thumb his nose at fans
In Los Angeles the greatest piece of cros-county
encouragement eUer. DGsnt eoen there, Charlie.
"As ball fan for more than so years believe rec
ognize playing talent when games. As soon as
heard Of the Piersall deal told everyone who would
listen that was mistake and that everyone would be
sorry before the end of the year.
g "The record of Mr. PerSa has never justified the
fanfare he received upon his trade to Washington do
not for his antics the field and blame lot OF
sports reporters and particularly TV and
cameramen for encouraging his performances.
ut is opinion that player of this type probably
lowers the morale CT the average bapayer the team
who earns probably onefourh of the repued salary paid
to publcized player who contributes little"
WIS,
~. Wyatt Building
Washington D. C..
1t Is quite possible, Mr. W. H. S, Mr. PiersaH vtH moi
agree NTH you.
2 The Piersa incident not the lone attention
getter Of what now can be looked back provoca
tive week This department also suggested the collapse
Of the Braves pennant contender accompanied
by frghtfu collapse at the urnstiles which
sent than million annually through the gates
Now they'll settle for 100000
This brought the following reaction
Your article Mlwaukees tagging attendance wa;
the most onesided piece of reporting probably writ
ten I wish you would give all the for the at
tendance decne and not only the you want people
to know about.
Tell them about the newspaper strike about thu
unemployment problem more important reason
The idiots running the team They gave up Joey Jay
Juan Pzzaro, Gene Conley, Frank Thomas, Nanny Jme
and Bob Buhl, just to name few Don't forget in
iurieS to Mathews Boiling Adcock, Maye and Crandal
II would appreciate your putting the whole story ii
your articles because that example of objective
reporting you should be writing for the Moscow Daily News
Douglas Goats,
Silver Spring, Md.
About that Job on the MoScoU Daily NegS, Doug,
think 1ndube Piersdu feels the same Ddy,