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f TEMPERS become frayed in the weather we have had had, anyway, it is a proven impossibility to select an All Star team that satisfies everybody. At the moment, the loudest dissident is Dick Stuart, an alleged first baseman with the Boston Red Sox.In the balloting of American League players to determine the League’s starting line-up in Cleveland next Tuesday, Stuart wound up second to Joe Pepitcne in the vote at his position. Ralph Houk, who managed the club and has the responsibility of filling out the squad, named every other runner-up, but omitted Stuart, selecting Norm Siebern of the Athletics instead. Houk explained that he preferred to follow the vote of the players whenever possible but, under the rules, it also is necessary to have each of the ten clubs represented. In his judgment, the best way to give Kansas City representation is to ' replace Stuart with Siebern.Stuart chose to reject the explanation and the apology implied therein. Instead, he kicked and screamed. A certain amount of resentment over having been left off the squad is understandable, but Stuart’s judgment was as bad as his fielding when he took off on Houk.* * *ACCORDING to what he told Larry Claffin, a Boston sports writer who printed his remarks, the ultimate insult was to be kept off the All Star team by a third string catcher.l:“He never made one in his life,” said Stuart. “All he ever did was sit in the dugout. He’s in because Casey Stengel got fired and they made him manager of the .Yankees.”0VFurther down comes the quote: “I’m going to tell Houk exactly what I think of him when I see him.”This may mean Stuart plans to yell at Houk from the bench. In that case, nothing much is likely to happen. But if he plans to chew out Houk at arm’s length, he runs the risk of being partially dismembered. Houk is a fellow who might get tough when Stuart leaves off being tough.0flagStuart is probably a better match-maker than that. At least he was one night in Pittsburgh back in 1959 when he changed off second base and started throwing punches at scrawny Felix Mantilla.kfiu)vMantilla is 50 pounds lighter than Stuart but seemed to be in no particular danger as the two were rolling around in the dirt and the inevitable peace-makersi 1 arrived.h.1
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Willoughby News Herald
Willoughby, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 06, 1963
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