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Show Bees Get Raises For '59 Season It was a raise in pay, generally, for Salt Lake's Bees for the upcoming up-coming season. That was the information from General Manager Eddie Leish-man, Leish-man, who completed mailing 44 contracts this week to Hivers all over the nation and Caribbean. "Most of the fellows got well deserved raises," he said, "although "al-though we did cut several and left one or two at the same figure." fig-ure." Leishman anticipates little trouble in getting the signed contracts, con-tracts, which should begin filtering filter-ing in within a day or so. "Of course we don't expect to get Carlos Bernier's back. He never sends it. He brings it into spring camp and wants to negotiate ne-gotiate personally. He's pretty good at it too, the rascal." Of the 44 contracts mailed out six are to inactive players who are serving time in the armed forces. Of the remaining 38, most are to newcomers on the Hive's spring training roster. Only 12 I of the current roster are Bees from last year's club. Many of the players who will eventually be with Salt Lake are doing their negotiating directly with parent Pittsburg Pirates. Meanwhile the Bees were expressing ex-pressing concern over the possibility possi-bility that they might lose the services of the Pacific Coast League's 1958 home run champion, cham-pion, Jim McDaniel. The big slugger, who pounded out 37 round-trippers and drove in an even 100 runs in his rookie year in triple-A last season with the Bees, has caught the eye of the Pirate brass. McDaniel was sent to Pittsburg at the close of the PCL season last year to work out with the Pirates. They were impressed with the big fellow's potential. He batted .293 for the Hive in virtually the full season, despite an early injury which handicapped handicap-ped him in the campaign. Bee General Manager Eddie Leishman, however, is hopeful that th Pirates will consider the fact that McDaniel needs additional addi-tional experience and should play daily, as he would with the Bees, instead of spending most of the season on the bench, as he would with Pitsburgh. Until further notice the Bees are counting on the big slugger's presence in the lineup when they open the season against Vancouver Vancou-ver in Derks Field April 17. |
