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Modern Big Leaguers Dollar Wise Invest Earnings 1 In Other Fields Make Certain That Money Will Keep Coming In After Baseball Careers Are Over NEW YORK, N. Y., May 17 UP. — Modern major leaguers know the value of a dollar as well as a base hit and most of them are making sure nobody will have to toss any benefits for them when theyre old and gray. The player pension fund was a tremendous step forward, but the smart ones are hustling up outsido interests to keep bigger money flowing in when their playing days are done. Radio and television provide a big outlet. Bob Feller had himself incorporated. Ted T.Tilliams turned his mania for fishing into a sideline thatll keep him handsomely when he returns from the Marine Corps. Phil Gavaretta has an amusement park in Texas and there are, of course, the inevitable resturants for others. At least three players still active have their own radio shows — Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson of Brooklyn and Phil Riz- | zuto of the Yankees. Joe DiMaggio retired from the field to a television booth, and Tommy Henrich, who could have been a manager in the Yankee chain, instead chose to go on television and run his beer business with Snuffy Stirnweiss of the Cleveland Indians. Doerr Has Ranch in Oregon Dizzy Trout of the Tigers once had a dice jockey show and maybe he still does. Bobby Doerr of the Boston Red Sox provided himself with an Oregoa ranch to go back to when he finally called it quits on a -magnificent career. Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants tied in with former Giant great Hal Schumacher as a baseball bat salesman — and does right well, thank you. The National Leagues two top hitters-Stan Musial of the Cardinals and Ralph Kiner of the Pirates— are in the restaurant business. So is Max Lanier of the Giants, who has a spot in Florida. Johnny Mize of the Yankees is casting longing eyes at a business he has back home in Georgia and Luke Appling, managing at Memphis after two decades as a shortstop for the White Sox, also has a Georgia business going for him. One of the reasons Marty Marion was so happy to hear from Bill Veeck with an offer from the Browns, after his bounce as Cardinal manager, was" that he could stay around St. Louis and his beer distributing trade. The mens suit business snags a passle of New Yorkers in the off-season with Riz-zuto, Yogi Berra and Gil McDougald of the Yankees, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers and Gene Hermanski of the Cubs among the shape drapers. Bill Werle of the Pirates, a snappy dresser, got into the business, too. The list runs similarly through most rosters and probably will grow as the younger lads consider the case, of Dizzy Dean: Old Diz can make as much in a month with his voice alone as he once made all season with his pitching arm— and his voice.
