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Hall of Famer Gibson
not anxious to return
By Jeff Apel
Staff Reporter
Former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher
Bob Gibson said there is nothing
like the competitive spirit in base
ball, but also said he has no immedi
ate plans of returning to the game
as either a coach or scout.
Gibson, a two-time Cy Young
Award winner from Omaha, said he
chose to stay active in baseball by
conducting a pre- and post game
interview show with radio station
KMOX only because "a man has to
work."
Gibson said he doesn't particular
ly er\joy the atmosphere created by
his position with KMOX, especially
since he is forced to drive from
Omaha to St. Louis throughout the
baseball season.
"When I retire because I was too
old to play, my idea was not at all
about getting back into baseball,"
Gibson said. "1 wasn’t burned out,
but at the same time 1 had no
interest in traveling to see a game."
Gibson said he has managed to
stay busy since his retirement in
1975 by first serving as the pitching
coach of the Atlanta Braves for three
years, and then splitting time be
tween working with KMOX, owning
Bob Gibson’s Bar and Grill in Omaha
and being a spokesperson for base
ball’s Old Timers games.
Gibson and his wife went through
a dramatic change when he retired.
He said he felt like he was just
coming out of high school because
he really didn’t know what he was
going to do.
"It was a very difficult time,"
Gibson said.
Gibson said his transition to re
tirement was compounded by the
fact that he often thought back to
what he had accomplished during
his 17-year, mqjor league career.
Gibson, who was best known for
throwing a hard fastball, compiled a
career record of 251-174. He also
posted a 2.91 career earned run
average while recording 3,117 strike
outs and walking 1,336.
In 1981, Gibson received his most
prestigious honor when he was in
ducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame
in Cooperstown, Ohio.
"I don’t think there is much more
I could have accomplished," Gibson
said.
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During his tenure as dean of the law
college he achieved recognition through
out the nation as a leader in the reform
of academic law training. According to
Pound. “A law school should aim to do
two things — to make a scholarly
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lawyer, and also make an effective
lawyer.” The excellence that Pound
insisted on placed the college of law
among the best in the country. The
intensity of his program was echoed by
one of the students of the College of
Law, "the law school at the present
time is no place for shirkers or idlers."
In 1910 he left Nebraska to become
dean of the Harvard College of Law.
In light of his rather distinguished
career in law, it is ironic that one of the
most notorious campus pranksters of
the late 1880’s was none other than
Pound. The Centennial History of the
University of Nebraska related an epi
sode of Pound’s undergraduate days:
“Several pieces of artillery which cadets
had received from the army were stored
in a shed behind University Hall, and
one night Pound and some other stu
dents decided it would be a good idea
to bombard the sheds which housed
the hogs used by Dr. Frank Billings in
his experiments. Pound said that the
students had little use for Billings, who
was a great deal of a crank. Led by
Pound, the group wheeled the guns
over campus into position, loaded them
with bricks, and trained them on the
sheds. At the command of fire, the
bricks whistled through the air, landed
on target with a rewarding crash, went
clear through the sheds, and sailed out
into the Salt Creek flats. Just as the
group was about to disperse, janitor
John Green came running up and cried,
‘Boys, give ’em the other barrel!’ Mr.
Green was, of course, questioned by the
authorities, but he never remembered
who was responsible for the incident."
Pound was also instrumental in
organizing and promoting football at
the university after he returned from
Harvard in 1889. In the 6-5 victory over
Kansas in 1897, before more than 2,500
Nebraska fans, Roscoe Pound led the
first organized cheering by the student
body.
Due to the limitations of space, not
every building of campus, and the
person it was named after, could be
reported in this article. There are many
colorful people and stories behind the
names of the buildings we have not
mentioned and we regret their omission.
Information for this article
came from “The Centennial His
tory of the University of Nebra
ska,” Volume I by Robert N.
Manley, and Volume II by Me
laran Sawyer.
