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BASEBALL PONDERS SAIGH CASE...
...Fred Saigh, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, sentenced to 15 months in prison for income tax evasion, announced that he would place the problem of the future of the club in the hands of top baseball officials...
...Saigh reiterated his intention to sell the team by the May 5 deadline set by a Federal Court but reversed decision on an immediate sale pending, a conference with Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and National League President Warren Giles sometime this weekend...
...interest began to perk up under Veeck's Barnum & Bailey tactics, not because the Browns were going anywhere in the pennant race (they finished last, 46 games behind the Yankees), but because the fans wanted to see what Veeck would do next. Cardinal Owner Fred Saigh (rhymes with high), whose club has drawn over a million fans every year of the five Saigh has owned it, countered by placing ads in the St. Louis papers extolling the Cardinals as "a dignified St. Louis institution." The struggle for fans...
Veeck, a flamboyant gladhander, relishes the feud. Publicity-shy Saigh prefers to let his team do the talking. After Veeck hired hard-bitten Rogers Hornsby, an old Cardinal favorite, to manage the Browns, Saigh felt forced to retaliate by getting baseball's most colorful character. Saigh fired Manager Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion and hired Eddie Stanky. Veeck, who refuses to be topped, quickly hired Marion as a player-coach...