Wray's Column May 4, 1926
By: Ed Wray. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Milton’s Stock Falls.
MILTON Stock is away below par. His release by the Brooklyn club shows that. And it’s Milton’s own fault.
Milton is afflicted with a spring training complex and it finally brought him low. Stock, it will be remembered, annually refused to report for the workout with the boys for the vernal sweat work down south. It was not that Milton loved baseball less, but that he hated training more. Wherefore, within the memory of man, Milton has evaded spring workouts under the plea of seeking a higher salary.
The Pitcher Broke.
MILTON, a good player, got away with this annually. It became chronic. But the pitcher went to the well too often.
Last winter Stock spent the cold months in Clearwater, Fla., with Jacques Fournier, converting a $15,000 joint investment into a $150,000. When the Brooklyn ball club went to Clearwater to train, instead of joining his mates Milton rushed to Mobile and sat down to demand $12,500.
But he couldn’t deliver the baseball.
He reported unfit and behind in practice. Rather than pay the salary to an unfit man, Robinson released him.
At the contract price few clubs will want Stock.
Stockie’s complex overtook him at last.
