Show fflMT IMTmEa TELLS HUE® A Mother and Daughter Sunbonnets XnT" - jTt ITES-AHl- tffiS Dodger immortal Don Drysdale was known for his blazing fast ball frightening "purpose pitch" and penchant to' throw a punch Now a commentator he still doesn't pull punches WMtWtofM To order Qaft No 370 send $KX1 plus 25c for portage and handling for each copy toe Family Weekly Magazine By Jack Mann guy on ABCs At the newNight Gama of the Week Don Drysdato brings a view ofbesebaB thate objec-tlv- a but not completely detached The holy wan of the National League are almost a decade behind him but after' 3432 innings a man doesn’t Just stop being a pitcher Especially not If he studied under Sal (The Berber) MagBe who taught that every batter needed a dote shave nowand then When the 6'5 Drysdale came to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956 he was only 19 yean old but he teamed quickly Wearing hte peach fun to the mound as Sal the master went to work with his black beard Drysdale won 17 games for the fading Dodgen of 57 By the time he surrendered to a shoulder Injury and retired at 33 Drysdale had won 209 games (He won the Cy Young Award in 1962) And 154 batters — a National League record — had felt the sting of his "purpose pitch” that mean fast ball that naiuraBy rode in on d batten ”1 didn't try to hit anybody" Drysdale says "but you have to set up the hitter It's part of die game” Most television announcen do not deal with the "purpose pitch" cither because they don't understand Its uses or because it Isn't nice to talk about But Drysdale regular broadcaster for the CaBfomia Angels does not duck the realty "You've got to talk about It" he says "I see Amos Ohs of Kan right-hande- sas City for example digging a big hole to plant his back foot in When I broke In the saying was ‘if you're going to dig R dig It deep enough to get in It’” Monday-nigfans wfB find Drysdale refreshingly out front about other aspects of basebal As a $115000 player ("About what a 210 hitter gets now" he says) in Ids last years and now as a successful business-ma- n he has grave doubts about the financial soundness of the expanded Inflated game "Something's got to give" Drysdale comments "in five or 10 years Some dubs now couldn't open their doors without help from the banks" Along with die dramatic Increase in players’ salaries Drysdale has observed a depressing decrease In their fon "It may be tough to be buddies with a guy when the difference in pay Is $100000 or mote" he says "With die old Dodgers we were a team off the Add too These guys today seem logo their separate ways" And basebal players don't tali basebal anymore "The old guys Ike me" says die Drysdale "stfll sit around and talk but the young guys don't Isten How are they supposed to learn? Broadcasting In Montreal I remember sitting up talking basebal with Gene Mauch (the manager and his coaches One night Gene said Isn't this peat? We're sitting here tettng each other things we al know" When the Angels hit Milwaukee Drysdale often talks baseball with his friend Johnny ht shortstop on the 1957 champtonshfo team and that should prove there was nothing personal about those purpose pitches On a sunny afternoon in Brooklyn 21 springs ago Logan and Drysdale took the matter to knuddes between the mound and first base "That was one of die good ones" Drysdale meals "But remember I had to get out from under my hat (avoid dose pitches as often as anybody" g One of the pitchc ers of (29 homers) Drysdale made 1169 official tripe to the plate By contrast Frank Tanana the gifted southpaw in his fifth season with the Angels hasn't had one "The designated hitter adds nothing to the game" Drysdale says "and It's hurting a lot of arms Because them's no opfor pitchers tion to pinch-h- it they're staying in twd or three Innings too long on days when they Just don’t have R The manager says 'Wei d he can get lids'next guy out maybe he wd have R brier'” Drysdale died Tanana and Nolan Ryan as overworked under the American League's DH rule "Neither finished last season" he points out "In addition a pitcher can knock a hitter down and know he doesn't have to bat himself" So how many purpose pitches might them have been If Lew Burdette Bob Magfie Gibson Jack Sanford — and Drysdale — had been sheltered by the DH? 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