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PALM SPRINGS. Calif. (UPI)| Tim* was when if he couldn't later admitted ' Dick has a good— I da a a a I i i .i A t 11Dick Stuart has been long have enough to know no one makes it in the big league* on sentiment,hi* way on a team, didn't play. Those uere salad days when hi* bighe chance of making the club.'111 ebut at age 30 a lot of the old,matched his personality,“That’s all I want to do, saio bat 1 Stuart. “I have no illusions and but the old Dick Stuart is just that,bombast I* gone and he’s trying those day* are gone. Now it’s a thing of the past. If I reallyhi* best to hook on for one more twilight time and the urge for didn’t think I could play in tieride any way that he can.)►humility myseifDreisell GoalUCLA Of EastCOLLEGE PARK. Md. (UP!)just one mor*overwhelming.It took a lot of doing to makej%vant Stuart the picture of he now portrays. Bouncing 1 around from one club to another helped, but not a* much as two year* in the Japanese* leagues“I learned a lot pfnying in Japan,” said the still boyish Stuart while hanging around the batting cage waiting for turn to hit a few in theCalifornia Angels’ camp. “I stillthink I can help a big league club and I’m thankful to DickWalsh i Angels’ general man* ger) for this chanceWalsh is a pretty soft heartedchance is big leagues 1 wouldn't ha\*[come here The last thing Ito do i* embarrss*t *Charles “Lefty1* Driesell offi- man but he didn't invite Stuartcially became the head basket- to thei ba!tcoach at Marylnd Uiliver sentiment sity W ednesday and set no less a goal than to make the Terpsthe “UCLA Of The East Angelsalone,mmimp out althoughStuart’s fielding hasn't in proved much since he’s leen awav, but on one ever paid hin for ni» glove work.I'm really not that bad.’’ he said, “Sometime* I think the writers made too big a thing of his | it, but I never got mad about it \aok, they have their work t« do and 1 have mine ’’While there is a definite auir of humility around Stuart these days, he still likes to talk about some of his hitting exploits, andthey are worth talking about.Vie was only 23 years oldwhen he hit a record 00 homeheiruns for Lincoln of the Western‘if)1i182i-fnaeSalary term* and the length of Driesell’* contract were notmade public.Driesell said he knew h* was putting himself on a spot but cited his first year at Davidson I in 1900-81 when the Wildcats finished with only a 9-14 record. In nine years since, however, Dneseil built Davidson into one of the nation’s major college powers and compiled an overalladmits “I like the big guy. League m 1 956 lie split the 11*57 The plain facts of life, and season between Hollywood, At Stuart knows them, are that the Uinta and Lincoln and was at Angels are in desperate need of s«H Lake Cit when the Pirates a first baseman. They lost Don jlt; ailed him up in 1958 in time foi Mincher to the Seattle Pilots in [him to hit 10 homers in 87 the expansion draft and outside gamesof Stuart, all they have is a I lie hit 27. 23 and 35 homecouple of non-lnttera and rookiefrom the Texas League named*Jim Spencerruns, wpcrrtvrly, the next tluefc years and when he slipped to IP in the Pirates traded hinStuart is in the Angels camp to the Boston Bed Sox4j record of 170 05, including a mark this season.Maryland finished with * record thin season.273a* a free agent. If he makes tin lub he gels a nice contract Otherwise, he’ll have to glt; homeAfter half a season in New Y.uk, the Meta sold him to the Dodgers and he wound up hi* big league career with 227ft1ISports Shortcageking“I can still hit,stepped into ihe battingand ripped * couple of drives over the fence. Manager Bill Rigney, who stands behind the cage during hatting drills, never moved a muscle, taillie said, then homers He went to .laparwhere th* Taivo Whales offeree him a two-vea i contract.Now he's back, somewhat deflated and trying as haid «*• the greenest rookie to win a bi| league Job.A 1 ^ ft Aia. * A m
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Bedford Daily Gazette
Bedford, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Mar 21, 1969
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