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Show SPORTS SHORTS By CLINT JOSEPHSON Copley News Service Some baseball owners, like George Steinbrenner and Ted Turner, have been accused of meddling too much in the on-the-field activities ac-tivities of their club but certain general managers have also turned contenders contend-ers into has-beens with their constant personnel changes. A case in point is Harry Dalton, general manager of the Los Angeles Angels. Dalton employed five man- Graig Nettles had a great line after the Yankees Yank-ees ran themselves into a triple play against the Twins the other day. He said, "What we need is a second-base coach." Baltimore Orioles manager mana-ger Earl Weaver says, "I used to carry a list of my mistakes in my pants pocket pock-et but I had to stop it gave me a limp." agers in six years. Now, in his fifth year in Milwaukee. Harry is working on his third skipper. December 13, 1947, was an historic night for Madison Madi-son Square Garden. That was the first time the arena substituted the name of an individual player play-er for the opposing team on the marquee. The sign read: "George Mikan vs. the Knicks" Mikan recalled that night when he was recently inducted into the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame. "When I went into the locker room that night, my teammates were still in street clothes. They told me to go play the Knicks by myself." Back in 1952, the Detroit Tigers made a move in their minor league system. They brought Harvey Koenn up to their Davenport Daven-port affiliate, dropping a guy named Mike Hitch to make room for him. Hitch's teammates told him to hang in there, that Kuenn wasn't that good, and that he'd be back in Davenport soon. Well, Hitch was out of baseball in two years and Kuenn went on to win an American League batting title. On June 2nd, 1982, Kuenn was named as interim manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. The next day E-itch E-itch bought the Detroit Red Wings for $10 million. He'd become a multimillionaire multimil-lionaire pizza franchiser. |