Tuesday, October 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Charlie Finley, Get Out of Town
J. Henry Waugh is an ordinary fellow. He likes delicatessen food, country music and cold beer. He stays at home, minds his own business and has only a few friends. He is average in every respect except for one obsession: his baseball team.
Waugh is the nighttime proprietor of the Universal Baseball Association, a baseball game he invented in which every action is determined by a throw of the dice. Waugh is the game's master and slave; he feels lonely and afraid when he isn't playing it.
Fortunately, Waugh is a fictional character invented by novelist Robert Coover. Unfortunately, Waugh has a real-life counterpart. His name is Charles O. Finley and he owns the Oakland A's baseball team.
Finley, who has been running amok in the American League since 1955, gave on Sunday an indication of his chances at Work-Mart. He was the seventh game of the World Series.
After accepting the World Series trophy from baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Finley turned to Oakland team captain Sal "Sally" professe gratitude for the A's victory.
"On behalf of me . . . " Finley began, and neatly summarized his own attitude toward
his team, Bando attempted to hide his disgust but failed. Dick Williams, A's manager, and Reggie Jackson, A's right-fielder, stood next to Bando. They looked at the floor. Obviously all of them wished Finley would leave.
Finley's verbal blunder, added to his outrageous behavior during the series, was not unusual.
should be played at night. he is also the man who has been tasked that baseballes be color coded
would say "on behalf of me?" What kind of man would practically run the World Series with antics stranger than anything ever conceived by Bill Veck? Who is this guy? Charles O. Fulley is a millionaire who made his career at Leeds. He is owner he owned the A's since 1960. He is the man credited with persuading baseball bigwheels that some World Series games
He is the man who, when he purchased the A's, promised to keep the team in Kansas City. He is also the man who began looking for a way to move the A's out of Kansas City about two weeks after he purchased the H. He succeeded in 1867 in doing just that.
In short, Charles O. Finley is a very strange man. So strange, in fact, that his own players and manager don't understand him.
After the series, Dick Williams announced that he had resigned as manager of the a'S. Williams said his resignation had nothing to do with Finley. Ub-hu.
Reggie Jackson wasn't so kind.
"It was the easiest thing in the world for this team to lay down because of that man," he said. "The Andrews thing the wives' thing, and the rest." He who is responsible for all those things?"
The "Andrews thing" Jackson was referring to was Finley's blunt banting of second baseman Mike Andrews after the second game of the series. Andrews made two errors in the game, each of which was likely to the A's. The Mets won the game, 10-7.
OU Coach Worried About K-State
KANSAS CITY (AP)—Coach Barry Switzer step-by-step a question yesterday to as whether his Oklahoma Sooners, barred from bowl games because of probation, have their eyes on the national football championship.
"I guess we've thought about it," said Switzer during the Big Eight Conference telephone briefing session. "We've talked about it, and I've realized the rest take care of itself at the end."
Rather than talking about championships, however, Switzer was more concerned about third-ranked Oklahoma's game at Kansas State Saturday.
"The toughest week for a coach," Swisser said, "is one when you're playing a team everybody expects you to beat. There's not an opponent between a good team and an average team."
Big Eight Standings
Conference All Games
W L T W L T W L T
Missouri 2 0 0 6 0 1
Oklahoma 2 0 0 4 0 1
Kansas 1 1 0 0 2 0
Nebraska 1 1 0 5 1 0
Colorado 1 1 0 4 2 0
Kansas State 1 1 0 4 2 0
Alabama State 0 1 0 3 2 0
Iowa State 0 2 0 2 3 0
"This is the best Kansas State team we've played since the Lynn Dickey era. They're 4-2, and they've got momentum working for them."
Switzer wouldn't say the Sooners sought more than the conference title but Kansas
"Oklahoma's probably the best team in the country," Gibson said. "Overall, they're the most physical Oklahoma team we've played."
Gibson said the Wildcats would keep working on their passing game, hinting K-State may try to throw more against the unbeaten Sooners.
Missouri Coach Al Onfrio, likewise, said the undefeated and sevent-ranked Tigers
wanted to bolster their passing attack for Saturday's game with Colorado.
"Colorado has a real good team," Onofrio said. "They have great talent, mixing young and experience people. They've got a winning team and a good passing attack."
Of the 'Tigers' spotless record, Onofrio said:
Coach Eddie Crowder of Colorado said, "We've got great respect for Missouri." It is the same kind of tough physical team that Brooklyn has. They make no errors, get no penalties.
"You've got to be lucky to be undefeated. We've been lucky. This is the hardest playing Missouri team I've been around. They seem to do things better than you think."
"It's one of the fine Missouri teams of recent years. You have to give them the best shot and effort you're capable of and you can do that," Coach Tom Osborne of Nebraska, concerned that the Huskers haven't been able to move the ball well, said he thought his team would be ready to play a good football game against Oklahoma State.
Asked about losing to Missouri by one point and beatting Kansas by one point after the game, the Razorbacks lost to
"To a lot of our fans, this means we're a poor football team. I don't feel we've played the same football teams we played last year."
Earle Bruce, Iowa State coach, said the Cyclones' big worry in Saturday's game with Kansas was the passing of the Jayhawks' Dave Jaynes.
Coach Jim Stanley of Oklahoma State said he definitely thought Nebraska could be beaten and "they'll mix it up against us." He said Cowboy quarterback Brent Blackman, slowed last week by injuries, would be at full strength against the Cornhuskers.
"We've got to do something about it," Bruce said, referring to the Cyclones' pass defense. "Jaynes is truly one of the great passers."
Yankees' Lee MacPhail Seen as Cronin Successor
By JOE MOOSHIL
Associated Press Reporter
The day after the game, Finely had Andrews examined by a physician. He then asked Kuh for permission to put Andrews on a stretcher and a shoulder injury and couldn't perform.
CHICAGO—Lee MacPhail, general manager of the New York Yankees, is expected to succeed Joe Cronin as president and head League today at a meeting of league owners.
Cronin, 67, was named fourth president of the league in 1959. He still has two years to go on his present term as president but will be expected to serve as chairman of the board of the league.
Andres later admitted that he had signed a medical statement about the alleged injury under extreme pressure from Finley. No one in baseball seemed particularly surprised by that revelation; Finley is expected to do strange things.
Cronin was asked if he would step down at the league meeting, and he replied "I don't mind."
"When they extended my contract through 1975, it was with the understanding that I would give up the job when they found a qualified successor. Nobody's been selected yet."
MacPhail, a former general manager of the Baltimore Orioles and son of legendary Larry MacPhail who formerly owned the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees, said the rumor that he would join 'Coin' has been going around for a long time.
"We haven't come to any conclusion," said Cronin.
"If and when the job is open and if it were to be offered to me, I would certainly have to take it."
But why should other baseball owners put up with Finley's behavior? Why can't they band together and force Finley to sell his team to someone who won't think he's being made dictator of a small South American country?
The list of Finley's stunts as owner of the A's is long. While the team was in Kansas City, Finley hired and fired managers on a revolving-door basis. He disposed of some of the best players the A's ever had upon mere whits. The most notable example of this was Chris Anderson, who入股 into a dispute with Harrelson, a competent outfielder, and gave him his release.
Harrison then signed with the Boston
Mets, and proceeded to hit 12
legs, leaving the next year.
Finley's idea of show-biz bulldup for his team is a mixture of P. T. Barnum's worst ideas and Whizzo's best ones. The resulting combination is a constant source of distraction to the A's players, the A's fana some else silly enough to venture near Eulaye.
Finley has paraded his idiotic ideas on the playing field in forms other than odd-colored uniforms and so-so players. The A's are infamous for Charlie O., the mule (which seems rather appropriate), and the world's smallest registered horse.
Finley has made it known that he would like to move the A's from Oakland, where he says the team is unappreciated. Other baseball owners should, instead, force Finley to leave of town himself—and out of baseball entirely.
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