Big money earned by superstars as 100-granders frequent majors
Mickey Mantle's retirement created a vacancy in the $100,000 ranks but it didn't last
At $115,000 are a pair of pitching dandies-Juan Marichal of the Giants and Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox and Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals all are listed at $125,000 by the better salary "estimators" in baseball.
NEW YORK (UPI) - When Babe Ruth first demanded $80,000 for playing baseball, the cries of anguish from the inner sanctum of Col. Jake Ruppert's brewery could be heard across the land—via the newsreels.
long. Big Frank Howard weighed in with his first $100,000 contract with the Washington Senators to get into a class including Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves and Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles.
125.000 meal ticket
Estimated salaries are not as
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The legal beer industry was putting out what amounted to a soft drink in those prohibition years but the colonel also owned the New York Yankees and he discovered he could advertise both his business interests at the same time by dickering publicly with his famous star and perennial "holdout."
precise as eventual income tax returns will require on or before April 15. However, they're acceptable as guidelines for public consumption and probably not far off the target when we're dealing with aces listed as 100-granders.
Today, an $80,000 demand from an upper echelon star can be expected as a matter of routine. The big boys actually are shooting for $100,000 or better and plenty of them are getting it.
Surpass Ruth
Up at the top with Willie and Yaz and Iceman Gibson, you'll find two stars at the very peak and another one tailing off but not all that much.
What does a club get for all that money.
Publicity, for one thing. Col.
Jake's publicity gimmick has not been lost on his successors.
Incentive for the younger ones is an obvious point. If they're good enough and playing for a club with one or more $10,000 man already on the payroll, they can be fairly certain they'll get theirs some day.
A pretty fair country ball player, for another. Most of the big money players are being paid a little extra for services over the years but most of them still can deliver.
Willie Mays, 38 on May 5, hit 23 homers last year, batted .289,
owns a lifetime average of .308 and more home runs (587) than anyone except Ruth.
Yastrzemski and Gibson are peaking. Yaz, 29, who won the
triple crown of batting in 1967 and repeated as bat champ last year.
Pitchers earn pay
Clubs get dividends
Gibson set an all-time NL record with an earned runs average of 1.12 last year, flipped 13 shutouts and won 15 games in a row. He's 33.
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Colbert takes Monsanto Open for first victory of pro career
PEANSACOLA, Fla. (UPI) — Unheralded Jim Colbert, battling through a fierce wind that gusted up to 35 miles per hour, fired a 4-under-par 67 Tuesday in the long-delayed final round of the $100,000 Monsanto Open to grab his first victory in his five years on the pro golf tour.
The 28-year-old Colbert, who had been holding a one-stroke lead since finishing the third round in rain Saturday, wound up with a 72-hole total of 17-under-par 267—two strokes ahead of former two-time U.S. Amateur champion Deane Beman and three ahead of U.S. open champion Lee Trevino.
Colbert, who had never before finished higher than his tie for third in the 1967 Greater Jacksonville Open, lost the lead momentarily to Beman on the first hole Tuesday when he bogeyed while the eventual second place finisher birdied. But he regained it three holes later and made the turn on the water-logged Pensacola Country Club course all even.
He forged into the lead for keeps with back-to-back birdies at Nos. 10 and 11.
Colbert, a former Kansas State football player who failed to finish among the top 100 money winners last year and who had won only $2,700 this year, earned $20,000, a spot in the $150,000 Tournament of Champions and a year's exemption from qualifying on the tour. Beman got $11,400, Trevino $7,100.
It appeared for awhile, as the final round was rained out Sunday and again Monday and the weatherman forecast more rain for Tuesday, that Colbert would have to settle for $15,000 and miss both the Tournament of Champions and the exempt
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list as an unofficial 54-hole winner. There was 6.29 inches of rain here in less than 60 hours. But the wind cleared the skies Tuesday morning and although the 71 pros still had to contend with water standing on the fairways and in front of the greens, there was no more rain.
The final round was played under provisional rules. The golfers were able to improve their lies in the fairways and to move their ball a club-length on the greens. Thus, the wind posed the only real problem. Beman, who shot a 68 in the final round for a 15-under-par 269, said the course didn't play as hard as it looked. "The wind didn't really bother us that much and since we always get to drop out of casual water, that was no problem."
Beman, whose best previous finish was second, in the Bob Hope Classic last year after losing a playoff to Arnold Palmer, birdied the final hole to finish a stroke ahead of Trevino who had 68-270.
"I knew I needed to do something there," said Beman who placed his approach shot six inches from the cup. "I gave it my best."
Ray Floyd, who started the day tied with Gary Player for fourth place, finished in fourth with a 69-272. Player, the South African ace who made his 1969 U.S. debut here, slipped into a three-way tie for fifth with Tommy Aaron and young Larry Hinson at 275. Player had a 72 Tuesday, Aaron a 71 and Hinson a 68.
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