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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 11, 1962
Mike Tresh Proud Of Son's Home Run
NEW YORK—(UPI)—The burly, heavy-set man blinked his eyes rapidly to keep back the tears of happiness.
"This," said Mike Tresh, "is the proudest moment of my life."
ONE BIG ARM, the one that used to make the throw to second base for the Chicago White Sox a decade and more ago, tightened convulsively around the tail, lean young man standing laughingly at his side.
"I never had any great moments myself," confessed the chunky man with the broad, flat face. "My greatest thrill was just being in the major leagues."
It was easy to understand the emotions which battled inside the 48-year-old former White Sox catcher as he stood there with his arm around his 24-year-old son, Tom.
A SHORT WHILE earlier, Mike's kid had walloped a three-run homer for the New York Yankees which beat the San Francisco Giants, 5-3, and gave the Yanks a three to two game edge in the World Series.
"I was sitting behind home plate and I jumped straight up out of my seat," said Mike, now a security guard at an automobile plant near Detroit. "I knew it was gone the moment he hit it."
"Holy smoke," Mike added, his voice rising excited at the thought of that moment, "Imagine, I hit only two home runs in my whole major league career, only two in 13 years, and the boy not only hit 20 this season but now he wins a series game with another."
MIKE CAN DEPRECIATE his own years when he wore the catcher's garb known as "the tools of ignorance," but there is no denying the part he played in preparing his strapping son for this hour of triumph.
"I only hit .249 in my major league career," said big Mike, "and I figured out early that if Tom wanted to be a ball player he'd be a lot better off as a switch-hitter; that it would give him an edge I never had."
So it was that, when Tom, the latest pride of the Yankees and undoubtedly the rookie of the year, was a toddler of three the old man began to teach him to swing a bat from either side.
"HE WAS A NATURAL righthander," the father remembered.
"But I kept him at it and when he
got to be about seven or eight years old I really made him concentrate on it."
That was toward the end of Mike's tenure with the White Sox, where he played from 1938 through 1949. After that, Mike managed Daytona Beach in 1951, where Rocky Colavito was on his team, and at Wausau, Wis., in 1952. By that time, young Tom already had made up his mind that he wanted to become a ball player.
"I never pushed the boy," Mike asserted. "He wanted it and he had a natural talent and I just did everything I could to help him."
TEACHING HIM TO switch hit was a great part of that tutoring.
Because it was as a left-hander that young Tom delivered that winning home run yesterday in Yankee Stadium.
"So I feel," grinned Mike with another fond look at his son, "that I had a little part in this series.
"Never even came close myself," he said. "One year we thought we had a chance, but that was the year Monte Stratton shot himself in the leg and it had to be amputated. That ended our hopes.
"But this," he laughed, "is even better."
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