Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 21

ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Monday, September 29, 1975 C-5 Two Managers Bite Dust as Regular Season Ends "It became a matter of who's going to win, Del or Garcia? Garcia won." Outfielder Bill Sharp, former Ohio State football player under coach Woody Hayes, a legendary disciplinarian, said Crandall failed to motivate some players. "SOME PEOPLE, INCLUDING I believe myself, are self starters and other people need a whip to perform," Sharp said. "To me Del Crandall was an excellent manager, and it was very easy for me to play for him. That's because I played for Woody Hayes and I know my limitations. But some guys can't stand prosperity." Calvin Griffith, president of the Minnesota club of the American League, did not indicate whether he has decided on a successor to Quilici, who managed the Twins for 3 Vi seasons.

Quilici was the sixth Twins manager since the franchise was moved from Washington in 1961. He followed Bill Rig-ney, Billy Martin, Cal Ermer, Sam Mele and Cookie Lava-getto. Only Mele managed under Griffith longer than down at certain times and it affected their play, although" I'm not saying they weren't giving their best. "BUT INJURIES WERE the big things. We just lost everybody.

Then they brought up so many young players who couldn't handle it yet. You can't win if you don't have talent." Among Brewers players injured for extended periods were infielders Don Money, Pedro Garcia, Tim Johnson and Robin Yount. Money, one of the team's few veterans, said some of the players had lost respect for Crandall. He said many disapproved of what they considered lack of discipline over Garcia, the troublesome second baseman. "THE POLICY IS you're supposed to wear a Milwaukee uniform, and that includes low-cut socks," Money said.

"But Garcia came to spring training wearing real high ones. Del fined him, but nothing more ever came of it. He kept wearing them, and nothing was done. Compiled From Journal Wires The 1975 regular season for major league baseball ended Sunday as Minnesota manager Frank Quilici and Milwaukee manager Del Crandall, once manager of the Albuquerque baseball team, were fired. In Milwaukee, there was speculation that Hank Aaron, baseball's all-time home run king, would succeed Crandall.

Aaron said no one in the Brewers' front office had talked with him about managing the team or about whether he would like the job, "UNTIL SOMEBODY discusses it with me, I can't say. I haven't thought about it," he said. However he added that "after you've been in the game so long, you have ideas about how things should be done." Injuries, lack of discipline and motivation and management's failure to obtain new talent were cited by Brewers players as factors that led to Crandall's ouster as manager. "It was just a bad situation, not Del's fault," catcher Dar-rell Porter said. "We just fell into a slump.

I think guys got QUILICI, 36, REPLACED Rigney as manager on July 6, 1972. The Twins were 41-43 under Quilici that season and finished in third place in the AL West. The most obvious reason for a change would appear to be the club's poor attendance over the past five seasons. Griffith thought Quilici might hold some of the same fan appeal that Martin possessed. The Twins, who have perennially finished strong under Quilici, also finished third in their division in 1973 and 1974.

Quilici was signed as a player by Minnesota in 1961, spending the next four seasons in the farm system until he joined the Twins as a utility infielder in 1965. HE SPENT PARTS of five seasons with the Twins as a player before becoming a coach with the team in 1971. Minnesota started the 1975 season strong, following the club's most successful spring training performance in its history. The Twins were 23-18 by May 30, but a seven-game losing streak then turned the season around. (S FBIEO CmCKEH JTm'JK2i (CHOC VANILLA, I UJI.UH- -JA A tYV "Jk LEMON, STBAW6EBHY) Vtj-aA (mZ I S.0.S.Pads iop, 44V -V PI -hv Green Chilies 3'1 1 tf 'V salad 95c Wl Evaporated Milk 28c I.

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