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MANAGERS BITE THE DUST
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LIVE MATSON.... .IN A RITUAL OF SELF SACRIFICE, CHARLIE FOX TODAY RESIGNED
AS MANAGER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
TODAY.... PERHAPS SENSEING THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL WHEN
BOBBY WIKLES WAS FIRED AS MANAGER OF THE CALIFOHN'IA ANGELS
MMDNN YESTERDAY, FOX DECIDED TO REliOVE THAT DECTSICNl MAKN G
iiOC 3 FROH ThC OWNEH F I R GIANTD...
SLTTi:FOX......VALGEN OF V GIANTS TCE 1970, FOX J'\D FT9IN BEEN CET TCTSED
AND FOX SAID THE CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT, MIGHT ALTER THOSE NEGATIVE
ASPECT OF THE CLUB...
LIVE MATSON....WES WESTRUM THE MAJOR LEAGUE SCOUT FOR THE CLUB WILL BECOME
THE NEW MANAGER AND FOX WILL ASSUME THE SCOUT DUTIES.....
SLIDE:WI KLES...ON THE MORNING AFTER T IGHT BEFORE NEWLY DISPOSED MANAGER
OF THE ANGELS BOBBY WINKLES REFLECTED ON TIS STATUS AND SAID
HE WAS FIhED BECAUSE H. COULD ,OT ISAN AGE FRANK ROBI!SON...WINKLES
SAID HE HOPED TO GET NACK IL i'0 BA: E3ALL BUT HE W( ULD NEVERTAKE A TEAM OF WHICH ROBINSON WAS A PLAYER.....
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Sports], script, June 28, 1974, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1972527/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.