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Show 0 Horm Sheyea vl X 'r iy TiprUilf jy jir'gtfT'yiprirnifiiij,fjyi(piii Munson miiiiiiniiii!jiiiiii!i:iiiii;iiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiimiiiiiii!tiuimiiiiiiiiintiii Baseball's 100th By RICHARD L. SHOOK Bill MunDetroit (UPI) son likely won't make it big as a National Football League Some Summer! quarterback. No bar, no beard and not even a tiny thought of a big. splashy W ere right in the middle of that rousing celebration 100 years of professional baseball. And some summer its turning out to be with the fans in each city choos-5- , j e team, every ing an pro and major league club (except for Salt Lake City) retirement-unretiremen- 1 says. all-tim- an wearing etc. arm-patc- Working as a manufacturrepresentative for a Detroit steel Company kept Munson busy during the nonfootball season and the blond product of Utah State laughs that he doesnt like sideburns and probably couldnt even grow a beard. er's h emblem, In addition, national sports magazines are take ing a fling at the team, the greatest achievements in the game, frequently picking the team, the top managers in the history of the game . . . and so on. Sport Magazine, a monthly periodical that supposedly covers the world of sport but manages to focus on baseball even in the winter, started things in May with a special issue. Fans are free to take issue with the greatest achievements section. After scanning over the opinion of 300 baseball authorities, who listed the top three achievements in baseball history, they came up with the following list: 1) Joe DiMaggios 56 consecutive game hitting steak from May 15, 1941 to July 16. 2) Babe Ruth for his 60 homeruns in 1927. 3) Johnny Vander Meers successive games in 1938. 4) Ted Williams for his .406 batting average in 1941 (the same year as Di Maggios first place feat). There was only one requirement in the ballotthe achievements must have occurred withing in a year. Therefor the great lifetime achievements of Lou Gehrig (2130 consecutive games) and Ty Cobb (.367 lifetime batting average) were not eliall-tim- LDCM,gcrirtH Still. Munson, wound up as the seventh-rankequarterback in the NFL and his 181 lonipletions were the most for a Detroit QB in history, lie things started to happen, most Munson is entering his second season as builder of the footLions' ball fortunes. Last year he came as the savior who was supposed to enable Detroit to put it all together but it seems somehow he got a little mud in his soikes. ol them bad. d First, he had a shin operaintraDetroit's squad game. Then Munson had Ids neck and shoulder hurt in final exhibition the Lions diid rehurt it in the game contest. season eighth tegular team Finally, tne depth-poo- r began making like "Wally Wooden" with a bad case of splinters. lately-precario- tion You soit of got die him Munson liked the challenge of playing when he didnt sign a contract his last year with the Los Angeles Rams. This vas because he never knew what "No. 2 meant and when he learned, the definition grated him. before completed o.' percent ol his passes and his pci ventage of was the (2.4) interceptions lowest in the league. "1 feel lit, Munson said. Everything I had last year has completely healed." Summer camp. 1968, started out fine with Munson. Interviews, the usual Lions optimism, the whole bit. Then denied He Rookie of the year. Earl McOullouch had a broken hand and bad foot to kill off Detroit's deep passing game and the running attack Mel Farr incurred a knee injury which required surgery midway through the season. all those without down. iNpWiNigW ypnyfjtaii DESERET NEWS, mnin t. just want to play," he p 3 Wednesday, July 23, 1969 generating a touch- - Munson, who said Detroit all the things they did wrong last season and put them together in one game to dose out last year, has spent moie time than most people know m hull sessions with head coach Joe Schmidt going over plans for putting new fangs in the Lions teeth. took It seems his idea of fun is winning. CAN YOU STEER & STOP SAFELY?... Every vehicle is road tesled by management. hurls after each game last year, even vhile he was stripping 10 yards of tape from his upper chest, refusing to alibi and accepting all the blame for an offense which at one point want 14 straight quarters Carbide Saw Sharpening typis Sins & Tools Michmt Shifpinid Alt WE Shf PAY AEUiRN POSTAGE. Cut Cuts. Sswi UTAH SAW WORKS 417 N. 34 Weil 4103 Use Action Ads all-ti- o no-h- it ol gible. The Greatest Nine Then enter Robert Kalich with his Baseball Rating Handbook, which rates players and teams with a mathematical approach. Kalich assigned points to each factor of excellence team value, power, technical proficiency, experience, versatility, and execution, as well as control (for pitchers) and speed (for the other eight positions). lo: VfhJ USJ Inside and out. You feel better all day because you slept The top managers in history? 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