Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-01
SEGH AT LARGE
Brosnon Setting
Sights on Italy
By MORRIS sIEcEL

LAST WINTER WHEN THE Reds were planning how
to improve their baseball team of their better players
who figured heavily in the plans James Patrick Brosnan
was doing some planning on his own behalf
The time had come Brosnan decided after taking
stock, to plan his e He went about In odd manner
unique any rate He wanted to be fired by the Reds
There place for baseball in his over all plans
and spot for Cincinnati in his immediate dreams
baseball divorce was mandatory.
The Reds gave in, but only after Brosnan had "sug-
gesed asked, cajoed demanded and threatened" Last
May they wished him good luck and shipped him off to
the Chicago White Sox in exchange for another pitcher
Dominic zanni Presumably Sgnor zanni had no objec-
tons to summering in Cincinnati although many do find
1t Objectionable
80 HERE AM" Brosnan smiled the other evening
as ne finished recountng the first victory he has gained
in blueprinting the years ahead
The big move is year away. 1t will carry him to
corner of the world where bocce ball is more apt to be
the national pasme not baseball After the 1864 season
has been packed n BroSnan will also pack his baseball
, career
He'll take off for stay of at least year on an isolated
spot on the Northern coast of Italy between Milan and
the Swiss border There he plans to devote full time to
promising literary career currently sed orders of
! the White Sox' general manager
BY something of coincidence" the pitcher-author
OF THE Long Season. and the THE Pennant Race said
softly my will to end voluntarily at Just
about the same time baseball will demand that 1t end
abruptly I'll be So year from October time to get out"
BY LOOKS AND PERSONAL habits, Brosnan is base
balls unkelieSt exhibit He abdes the game which pays
him moderately well not because he likes it but because
ut affords easy way of life That part I'll miss but
only for while"
5rosnan is scholarly pipe-smoker who glasses
and owns twoleague reputation for being the games
best martini mixer and something Of egghead to boot
In baseball it is easy to become intellect Yogi
Berra barely escaped the years ago only because
discovered that the books read nothing
than the adventures of "Superman."
He reprieyed after promising that his reading
habits would be confined to literature of similar kind
with an occasional glance at Western trnstful Sort
Yogi has kept his word. .,
Brosnan also may read comic books, but he spends
much more time dwelling in the major leagues of classics
and poetry Two years ago he wrote poetry nvoluntary
He quickly concluded it not his best pitch.
MY analyst suggested I try poetry when complained
I was having trouble with prose-" he explained HE
thought it might make it easier. 1t didn't help"
.
BRosNAN IS RELIEF pitcher infrequenty called
upon by the White Sox If their oversight is purpoSefu
Brosnan INDUCES it pleasantly.
He finds the view from the bulpen beneficial to a
thinking pitcher whose thoughts usually are not con-
cerned with the game. More often they are glued to
book or magazine idea
This year, under arrangement he agreed to when
he Joined the White Sox he is prohibited from having
any Of his efforts published until after the season is over
sterner censorShp-not to write anything at all at any
tlme-Was imposed on him IN Cincinnati. BroSnan's dis
enchantment with the Reds way of treating athletes
quickly followed.
Brosnan currently is working article for Atlantic
Monthly and book for Harpers mo is likely to be
embarrassed by either he smiled obviously referring to
The Long Season." which left several spike-wearing
colleagues red-faced and angered.
!, BRosNAN is MORE FAMILIAR with Freud than he
is with his pitching average He visited an analyst
several years ago on the advice Of the Cubs.
= Il wasn't mixed-up man." he unused, "only a
mxedup pitcher But the Cubs thought would help so
I went"
I The couch revealed that BroSnan hated authority.
The sessions didn't change his outlook II still rebel
against authority he says "but at least why"
Before BrosnanS visits to the Cubs house analysts the
team had sent another player Infeder Bob Ramazzotu
whose batting average dropped from 2S5 to 200 following
beaning The Cubs thought the player was plate-shy
and needed reinsurance.
That didn't work, either" Brosnan laughed 1.-THE
doctor said there nothing wrong with Bob at all He
was Just 200 hitter to begin with"