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Show ! MARRIED BALL PLAYER FAVORED j BY WILLIAM WRIGLEY OF CUBS 1 I l -I ; i I 1 , X ' The professional baseball player who is married is a bigger asset to his club than the one who is single. This is the opinion of Wilijam Wrigley, Jr., owner of the Chicago National league club and part owner of the Los Angeles An-geles club of the Pacific Coast league. "Give me the married ball player every time," the mogul said. "He's the kind to win pennants with. What I mean is tiiat after lie's been married a year. For If lie gets married and then starts rigitt out with the team, as a rule he's not much use lo the club the first year lie's too much in love. Settles in Year. "But after he's been married a year he sort of gets settled in that line, and then he's a big help to a team. You take the married player and after the game he goes home. '"Well, honey.' the little wii'ey says, 'what did you do today?' "'I pitched great ball for live innings,' in-nings,' he tells her. 'and then I blew up. The old arm went bad.' '"You'll have to cut out that blowing blow-ing up,' she warns him. 'because we need the jack ami they'll be dropping you from the old payroll. You'll have to get right in and put something on that old ball or you'll be out looking-for looking-for a job. And we can't get any new clothes that way. you know.' "Well," Wrigley chuckles, "the old boy gets back on the mound in a few days and he just whams 'em over. "'What did you do today?' the wife asks him when be gets home. " 'Liz,' he says, 'I made 'em loolt funny I had everything on the ball and won in a walk.' "She gives him a big bug and tells him what a great boy he is. Chatter Makes Him Work. "That's the kind of chatter that makes him get out there and work." While Wrigley likes to "get 'em young," when they're married he also "works on" the unmarried player. "We run a sort of matrimonial bureau bu-reau with our teams," he says. "We. Iry to get the unmarried players to get married, because in the long run it makes them more valuable to the club. As I say. they're too much in love the first year they're married, but after that first year it's the wife who makes 'em get out there and .bring home the jack." |
