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‘Baseball has law ays beep a ot of fun for me. but Maucb sort of ruined it. We'd have an eight run lead in the eighth inning, and he'd yank me. Sometimes he'd take me out with a one run lead.• Once when that happened. Mauch put Wes Zo\ mgton in to swing for me The other team witched to a left handed pitcher. Tonv Taylorcame in to swing for Covington Thai was the case where Mauch used three men 1o do my job — and Tony Taylor stuck out Mauch kept Stuart out of 21 games last season Through this he lost 100 times at bat. 3e figures.•‘They're paying me $50,000 a year to hit .10 h«mers, and drive in 100 runs,’’ he declared. “so take it from there. How can I do it when losing 100 times at bat.”What he did was hit 28 homers, and drive n 05 runs. “I was dissatisfied with my batung jverage of 2-14 hut otherwise 1 had a good ,ear. Stuart explained.He'd like to return to Fenway Park, which us tailor-made for a right handed pull hitler. •But 1 hear they've made a deal for me with the White Sox.”Stuart had an offer to play in Japan for $80,000 a year each of two years. “Forge; hat, he laughed.“No one can go fo Japan unless released outright.” No one is certainly not thinking of giving Stuart his outright lelease.He already seems to have disassociated himself from the Phillis, speaking of the team as “they. He went on talking.“I hear they’re going to put Groat on third hsc. and Richie Allen ;n the outfield. They
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Salisbury Daily Times
Salisbury, Maryland, US
Tue, Nov 02, 1965
Page 21
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