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vrtwcK u/n | m. reWlClaba$31,000 Last Cards Offer For Carlton, ST. PETERSBURG, FLA,! € j (AP) — Holdout pitcher Steve' I Carlton got a tongue-lashing \ si• Thursday from Augie Busch, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, just hours before con-i troversial Richie Alien appeared! ^ I in camp with a signed contract.! sj“I don!t care i! he ever pitch-- t jes another ball for us again,1’ ]Y 'the angry Busch said after he'di and General Manager Bing De-!} vine met With Carlton. I InCarlton, who got a reported $25,000 last season, wants ® $40,000 this year. The Card!- T nals are offering an estimated $31,000, and Busch said Carlton can take it or leave it.• •, iAllen, modly dressed and ex-j claiming, *Tm no angel,”; showed up with a signed con-1 tract estimated at $85,000 and 5 said; *Tm really mentally o, and physically set and anxious;11 to get going, I’m glad to be a *} Cardinal” j jain1i\stLBusch said Carlton was being offered a 25 per cent increase, which was the big-gest offered to any established Cardinal. ...“My hope is that some other i . owners will have the guts to do'I what I’m doing to help reverse J i this thing and get people back r to normalcy,” Busch said.J Allen said, “I don’t think I’m lCj as bad as I'm made out to be. IJii got no intention doing those ^ «j things in St, Louis that I did in ‘ )ri Philadelphia.” j
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 13, 1970
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