The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, July 7, 1981-Page 15
1968 Year of the Tiger
It doesn't matter if you side with the players or the owners in the
baseball strike, there is one thing everyone agrees on; it is an unfor-
tunate situation. So in order to partially relieve the misery df any
baseball junkies going through withdrawal, the Daily today begins a
new feature. Throughout the duration of the strike, we will provide a
look back to a more pleasant time - 1968. There was no free agent
compensation, no NLRB, no court injunctions, and no strike. And
for those of you who don't remember, in 1968 the Tigers were win-
ners, World Series winners in fact. Each day the Daily will relate the
results of the previous evening's Tiger game - minus thirteen years.
July 6, 196$-- A's 4, Tigers 1
DETROIT (AP) - Oakland literally
knocked Tiger pitcher Earl Wilson out
of the box with two vicious line drives
that bounced off him in the fifth inning
yesterday, as the A's snapped a seven-
game losing streak by beating Detroit
4-1.
The loss also ended a five-game Tiger
winning streak.
Oakland scored two runs in the
opening inning on John Donaldson's
double and singles by Rick Monday and
Jim Gosger. The A's added one in the
third and one in the fifth.
Detroit, which had hit 15 homers
during its five-game streak, managed.
to hit four doubles off Oakland starter
Chuck Dobson, but could only muster
one run. Although he allowed four two-
baggers, Dobson held Detroit to six
hits.
Wilson, who suffered the loss and fell
to 6-6, was lucky to survive the contest.
In the fifth Monday hit a line shot off
Wilson's right shoulder and the ball
glanced off his cheek as he fell
sideways to the ground. After
recovering and retiring Oakland third
baseman Sal Bando, Reggie Jackson
hit a second sizzler back to the box that
struck Wilson in the right hand. This
time Wilson was taken out of the game
and sent to Henry Ford Hospital for
hand x-rays.
Monday and Jackson aside from both
knocking Wilson around, each gathered
two hits in the contest. Jackson also ad-
ded two RBI's.
Rightfielder Jim Northrup led the
league-leading Tigers with two of De-
troit's six hits.
Oakland
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campaneris, ss ....... 5
Donaldson, 2b ......... 3
Maondaycf ........... 4
Sando3b ............. 4
Jackson f ..... 4
Gosger, if ........3
Webster, ....lb ........ 3
Duncan, c ............. 4
Dobson, p ............. 4
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TOTALS ............ 34 4
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Presidential advice AP Photo
Former President Gerald Ford chats with professional golfer David
Graham and comedian Bob Hope prior to yesterday's play in the Jerry Ford
Invitational Golf Tournament in Vail, Colo.
Golfers have no.
Pity for pro batsmen
Detroit
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McAuliffe,2b......... 4
stanley, ef ............ 3
Nortrupr 4.. 4
Cahib......... 4
Horton,If.............. 4
Freehan, c ............ 3
Matchick, ss .... 4
Wert, 3b........... 4
Wiso, p.......
Roonker. p........ 1
Brown,ph............. I
wyattp............... 50
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TOTALS ............ 33 1
E-Wert. DP-Detroit 1. LOB-Oakland 8,
Detroit 7. 2B-Northrup, Freehan, McAuliffe,
Cash.3B-Donaldson. SB-Jackson.
IP H R ER BB SO
Dobson(W, -..... 9 1 1 2
Wilson (L, 6-) .... 4% 7 4 3 3 2
Rooker ...... . 2% 0 0 001 2
wyatt ................. 2 1 0 0 1 2
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OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP)
Professional golfers are showing no
sympathy for baseball's striking
players.
"I'll bet if you polled every golfer at
the Western Open, you wouldn't find
one who didn't side with the baseball
owners,'' said Howard Twitty, a mem-
ber of the PGA Tour's Tournament
Players Policy Board.
SUCH DISDAIN for the baseball
strike is understandable. In golf, every
man is for himself. In affect, he's an in-
dependent businessman. He must pay
his own expenses and must decide when
and where he wants to perform next.
"Baseball players ought to try
playing golf for a living," said former
PGA champion Al Geiberger, part of
the PGA Tour since 1960.
"No guarantees, all expenses paid -
by yourself. I'd like to hear them com-
plain then," said Geiberger, whose best
year of $175,693 came five years ago.
TWITTY, THE winner of an average
of $170,000 in' his last two years, boils
over the big contracts down-the-line
baseball players command.
"Look at what they make," he said.
"They have one good year and they get
a contract for $400,000 a year for the
next six years. And they get it no mat-
ter what they do, even if they never
make another hit."
Twitty doesn't mind seeing Dave
Winfield drawing $1.3 million a year. Or
Fred Lynn drawing $1.2 million, Dave
Parker, Phil Niekro and Andre Dawson
$1.1 million.
"A STAR deserves it," said Twitty.
"But the mediocre player making
$400,000?"
Former Masters winner Charlie
Coody said, "I'd like to see how many
baseball guys make more than $100,000.
A lot more than golfers, I'll tell you.
And these guys do it without any
overhead.
"For someone on the Tour to make
$100,000, he's got to earn $150,000 total,
considering that it costs about $50,000
just to get around from week to week.
Now go ahead and look at the money list
to see how many guys make $150,000."
LED BY Tom Watson's $530,808, 21
golfers reached $150,000 a year ago.
Forty-four earned $100,000 or more.
"Now," Coody said, "if you could
make a list of the baseball players - all
650 of them - when you got to the last
guy making $50,000, you'd be close to
No. 600. Out here, though, there
wouldn't be 80."
In fact, only 73 golfers cleared $50,000
in gross pay in 1980. One was Coody,
with $73,918.
Ed Sneed, another member of the
Tournament Players Policy Board,
doesn't understand how baseball
owners pay such exorbitant salaries
without hurting the team's morale.
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