THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1959
THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1959
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MAJOR LEAGUE TOWNS--This map illustrates the tremendous area major league baseball will
cover after the formation of the new Continental League. A total of 19 cities will have at least one
team.
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SheaSthe Magician New ,League
By DAVE LYON Means End
Associate Sports Editor
Magician William Shea waved his wand Monday and brought into O f A A L oop
Bing baseball's third major league.
(Continued on Page 2)
Other cities mentioned for pos-
sible inclusion, he added, are
Boston, Buffalo, Louisville, Miami;
Seattle and San Francisco.;
On the legislation issue, Bell
endorsed a bill that would exempt
the player draft, contract reserve
clauses and club territorial rights
Ike To See
Opening
Pan Games
CHICAGO W) - President
Eisenhower will be in Chicago
Aug. 27, for the opening of the
Pan American Games, which have
drawn the largest squad of ath-
letes ever named to represent the
United States in international
competition.'
An announcement from Wash-
ington said the President will at-
tend opening ceremonies in Sol-
dier Field and return to the White'
House the same day.
Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson, pres-
ident of the U. S. Olympic Assn.
filed the nation's official team en-
try list of 408 athletes - 325 men
and 83 women _. with Michael J.
McDermott, chairman of the Chi-
cago organizing committee for the
third Games, Aug. 27-Sept. 7.
The number of athletes, in-
cluding full delegations in each of
the 27 sports categories - 20 for
men and 7 for women -- well ex-
ceeds the previous high carrying
Uncle Sam's colors into interna-
tional competition. The biggest
such group in the past was 326
entered in the 1956 Olympics at
Melbourne.1
"The squad may vary slightly
from the 408 tdtal depending on
results of some team election
trials still to be run," said Wil-
son. "But this should be the
strongest such group - not es-
pecially in numbers, but in quali-
ty - ever to represent the U.S.
And this strength will be felt all
along the line.
"The U. S. has made vast im-
provement in all sports. The big
question is how much the other
nations have improved. All this,
of course, will be tested in the
Pan Am Games.
Shea, appointed by New York mayor Robert F. Wagner to head a
committee to seek ways of getting a second major-league club in that
city, succeeded by "building a league around it." He climaxed long
months pf careful (and, for the most part, secret) negotiations by an-
nouncing that,groups in five cities are prepared to sponsor professional
baseball clubs in the new Continental League. Besides New York, the
groups represent Toronto, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Denver.
Eleven other large cities, Shea said, are "interested in providing teams.
Officials of both present major leagues have approved of Shea's
efforts to expand major-league baseball beyond the present 16-team
format which has been in existence since 1900. For one reason, they
(along with Wagner) believe that metropolitan New York's 14,000,000
people should have the opportunity to support more than one major-
league club. (They supported three of them for years.)
They also believe that the rise in population of the country in the
last 60 years justifies expansion. In 1900 there were 76,000,000 people
and 16 major teams. In 1959 the population is 175,000,000, but there
are still only 16 major teams.
The main weakness of that argument lies in the fact that baseball
is no longer the national pastime. It may have been such in past time,
but it is not now. People have found other ways in which to divert
themselves.
The "sport of kings," accompanied by the pari-mutuel system, has
muihroomed in popularity, and many good tracks today attract thou-
sands of "commoners" for each program. There is a trend in the direc-
tion of "participant" sports, such as golf, tennis, and swimming, as
opposed to spectator sports. So baseball faces stiffer competition than
it used to in attracting people's leisure-time attendance.
Because of this, the Continental League may well be baseball's
salvation. Fan interest will be created for major league teais in more
than half a dozen cities where such interest has not been possible
before (except in New York).
But just because Shea has waved into existence the Continental
League and uttered optimistic predictions does not mean that the
hardest part of establishing this third league is finished yet.
Rough Road Ahead . .
There are many problems, some of which will be discussed when
Shea and the five cities' franchise-backers confer with baseball com-
missioner Ford Frick's seven-man committee Aug. 18. Even if Shea
can get his league set up within baseball's present structure, he will
face a'rough time getting it into actual operation unless he can conjure
up solutions to the following:
1) Probable delays in Shea's ambitious timetable for commence-
ment of operations. In three of the five "founding" cities, baseball
stadiums of the proper size (35,000 or more) must be constructed from
the ground up; in the other two, present minor-league parksmust be
enlarged. Such construction will take time. Add to this the fact that
sites for three of the planned eight teams have yet to be named (out
of 11 possibilities), and Shea may well be faced in April 1961 with a
league full of half-constructed ball parks, forcing a postponement of
perhaps a year. It will be up to Shea to keep up the interest of the
league's various financiers through any such delays.
2) The player problem. Players of major league caliber do not
drop down from heaven (although Shea's magical powers could be
underestimated). Yet 200 such players will be needed within two to
three years to equip the Continental League. Where will they come
from? Frick suggested that "the players will develop if you have the
jobs for them." Edwin C. Johnson, former Colorado governor and
senator, and currently one of the principal backers of Denver's pro-
posed major league franchise, said, "The same question arose about
players when the American League was born. I have faith in America."
Regarding Frick's comment, there seem to be plenty of jobs avail-
able on the 16 present major-league teams for players of major-league
quality. And the American League, formed in 1900, did not snatch its
players out of the ether. The AL was simply the continuance of the
old American Association, which was considered a "minor" league up
to 1900 by the older, jealous National League.
3) The minor league problem. This will be Shea's big stumbling
block. The minors have atrophied within a decade from 59 leagues, 444
teams to 21 leagues, 150 teams. The Continental League might well
finish off the minors altogether:
a) It will deprive the minors of some of the best cities they have
now, and break up or at least weaken the biggest of the minor circuits.
For example, the American Association will lose four, and might lose
seven of its 10 cities: Minneapolis and St. Paul, Houston, Denver,
Dallas and Ft. Worth, and Indianapolis. The International League will
lose Toronto, and might lose Montreal or Buffalo.
b) It will further decimate whatever interest in the minors is left
by saturating the entire nation with broadcasts and telecasts of major-
league baseball. George M. Trautman, minor league president, has
maintained that radio and television broadcasts have been a principal
factor in the decline of the minors.
c) It will decimate the ranks of minor league ballplayers, because
from indications Shea has given, many of the 200 players in the Con-
tinental League will come from the high minors. Shea appears to have
plans for tapping personnel of the 16 present major league clubs, but
will probably encounter resistance from Frick's committee of seven in
the August meeting.
Naturally, the majors will lose an invaluable asset if they lose the
minor leagues. Bill Veeck, baseball owner of note, has suggested that
cnllge h as.1l team will sunolant the minnr pventally when insti-
DENVER (1P) - President Ed
Doherty of the American Assn.
said yesterday it was too early to
tell if formation of a third major
league would mean the end of the
famous old Triple-A circuit, or-
ganized in 1902.
The new Continental League
was formed Tuesday in New
York. Four of the 10 American
Assn. clubs joined the loop as
"founding cities." They are Den-
ver, Houston, Minneapolis and
St. Paul. Two others, Dallas and
Fort Worth, are under considera-
tion.
Minneapolis and St. Paul will
be represented as one team.
"I can't say right now what
would happen to the association,"
said Doherty. "I'd rather wait and
see what happens at the Aug. 18
meeting of representatives of the
Continental League and a com-
mittee of baseball leaders.
from the antitrust laws. Commer-
cial aspects of the sports would be
subject to those laws.
This bill is sponsored by Sens.
Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.),
Thomas C. Hennings (D-Mo.),
and Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.).
It is virtually identical with a
measure which the house passed
last year. That Bill died in the
Senate.
Subcommittee chairman Estes
Kefauver (D-Tenn.) has offered a
rival bill. It would put the pro
sports under the antitrust laws
and provide certain exemptions
more limited than those in the
Keating-Hennings-Dirksen bill.
Objected to Provision
Among other things, NFL Com-
missioner objected to a provision
in Kefauver's bill which would
require football players to give
their written consent before they
could be drafted by league teams.
Under the present system, the
team ending in last place is given
:flrst choice in the succeeding
:player draft, and so on up to the
top.
Bell defended the current draft
:system as needed to even out the
:strengths of the competing teams.
:He said it has proved itself by
:developing a highly competitive
league.
Keating also testified for his bill
yesterday, saying Kefauver's meas-
ure would lead to unwarranted
government interference in sports.
Keating objected to a Kefauver
proposal that would bar any major
league baseball team from con-
trolling more than 80 players.
"Such- a provision could wreck
baseball's minor leagues which,
after all, provide the lifeblood for
the big leagues," Keating said.
Earlier, Keating hailed the an-
nouncement of the planned third
major baseball league as good
news.
Rumor Casey
On Way Out
NEW YORK (A) - Is Casey
Stengel on the way out as man-
ager of the New York Yankees?
Some newspaper writers and
many baseball dopesters say 'yes."
The cold figures, and the Yan-
kee management, say "no.'
The Yankees, last- year's world
champions, are now firmly in the
second division. With Bill Skow-
ron out for the rest of the sea-
son with injuries, and Andy
Carey, Tony Kubek, Gil McDoug-
ad, and Bobby Richardson all
suffering from a variety of ail-
ments, only the most wild-eyed
Yankee booster can see any hope
for a pennant.
So naturally the clamor is
raised: fire the manager.
Leonard Koppett writing in the
New York Post says the signs "all
point to the end of Casey's ca-
reer as manager. That's not to say
he'll be fired. But it is to say that
any decision of his to retire would
be welcomed by George Weiss."
Weiss is the Yankee general man-
ager.
The Magazine Newsweek said
an anonymous Yankee executive
told its writer: "If Casey Stengel
were to quit tomorrow, and coach
Ralph Houk were named man-
ager, our team would win the
pennant. But he's not going to
quit and we're not going to win."
The Yankees promptly denied
any executive had said anything
of the kind.
On the side of the ledger favor-
ing the theory that Stengel will
remain in charge are these facts:
Yankee home attendance to date
is 981,709 as compared to 728,788
for the same number of games
last year; no one can blame
Stengel for the numerous Yankee
injuries; and no one can deny
that he has won nine pennants
Iin 10 years.
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week, but they'll both have to be
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180-man field.
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Major League
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
WV L Pet. GB
Chicago 57 40 .588 -
Cleveland 57 41 .582 %
Baltimore 50 50 .500 81,/
Kansas City 48 49 .495 9
New York 48 50 .490 9
Detroit 49 52 .485 10
Washington 43 56 .434 15
Poston 42 56 .429 15q
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Kansas City 6, Washington 1
Boston 8, Cleveland 4
Detroit 8, Baltimore 3
Chicago 4, New York 3
Cleveland 5, Boston 2
TODAY'S GAMES
Washingtonaat Kansas City (N)
New York at Chicago (N)
Boston at Cleveland (N)
Baltimore at Detroit
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