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Show fi W1D BAL PLAYER FAVORED J r BY WILLIAM WRIGLEY OF CUBS if I The protessiouul butieuull player who la married Is a bigger asset to his club i than the one who Is single. This is the opinion of WHUani 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 nie the married ball player every time," the mogul said. "He's the kind to win pennants with. What I mean la that after he's been married a year. For If he gets married and then stnrts right out with the team, as a rule he's not much use to the club the first year he's too much in love. Settles In Year. "But after he's been married a year lie sort of gets settled In that line, and then he's a big help to a team. You take the marred player and after the game he jroes home. "'Well, honey,' the little wifey says, what did you do today?' M'I pitched great ball for five Innings. In-nings. he tells her. 'and then I blew up. The old arm went bad. "'You'll have to cut out that blow-in blow-in nn,' she warns hhn, 'because we . need the Jack and they'll be dropping joti irom cue oiu payroll. lou II Dave to get right In and put something on that old ball or you'll be out looking for a Job. And we can't get any new clothes that way, yfJu know.' "Well," Wrigley chuckles, "the old boy gets back on the mound In a few days and be Just whams 'era over. "'What did you do todayf the wife asks him when he gets home. "'Liz,' he says, 'I made 'em look funny! had everything on the ball and won In a walk.' "She gives him a big hug 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 try 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 hnie the Jack." |
