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Is there a doctor in the locker room
United Press International
NEW YORK — Next time you
happen to catch one of those film
clips showing a bunch of players
celebrating a pennant clincher,
slapping each other on the back and
happily guzzling champagne, see if
you can spot that one individual off
on the side taking in the whole
scene calmly and quietly.
Chances are you’re looking at the
team physician, without whom in so
many cases the players would sim
ply be unable to perform.
One of these physicians is Dr.
James Parkes, and one of the rea-
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sons he’s so unusual is because he
still makes some house calls.
That’s in his private practice
where he functions as an eminently
successful orthopedic surgeon. He’s
also the team physician for the New
York Mets and in that capacity he
conducts sick call every day the
team is at home treating practically
every known ailment from der
matitis to diarrhea.
If there is any complaint either he
or trainers Tom McKenna or Joe
Deer can’t cope with, the Mets also
have a club internist in Dr. Ken
Donaldson as well as a number of
other specialists they can call on in
each field. Generally, though, Jim
Parkes manages to handle most of
the physical problems himself.
“People ask me whether
ballplayers make good patients,” he
says. “My answer is, anyone makes a
good patient if he or she realizes
you’re honestly trying to help them.
I’ve never had a single player who
didn’t convey that feeling. To me,
the art of medicine is getting the pa
tient’s confidence and once you do
that, with ballplayers or anyone
else, they’ll walk through fire for
you. ”
The Mets’ players have enormous
regard for Jim Parkes, not only pro
fessionally, but personally. He’s a
gregarious, outgoing fellow, who’s
always cheerful and never strait
laced. The players appreciate the
fact that they can always talk to him
on their terms.
When Joe Torre was still playing
for the Mets before he took over as
their manager, for example, he
came up with a severe pain in his
left heel.
He hobbled into Parkes’ small but
sterile-looking office in Shea
Stadium and said to him:
“I know what you’re gonna say.
You’ll want me to take physical
therapy and some pills and then
you’ll give me a pad inside my shoe.
But I don’t want any of that. I want
to be able to play immediately. I
want you to give me an injection, a
shot of cortisone in my heel, be
cause I know that’ll make me feel
better quicker.”
“It’ll hurt like hell,” Parkes told
Torre.
“I don’t care,” Torre said. “Just
do what I ask you to.”
Reluctantly, Parkes agreed, and
Torre got up on the table.
The Mets' physician secured his
syringe, drew up the fluid and then
stuck the needle deep into Torre’s
heel. Torre went straight up the
wall. The pain was so intense, he
turned snow white.
“I just wanna ask you one ques
tion, Joe,” Parkes said with a
straight face as he removed the nee
dle. “Do you think I hit the spot?”
Recently Parkes had to make a
decision on whether to operate on
Tim Fob after the Mets’ shortstop
suffered a serious knee injury.
“It was a critical decision,” Parkes
says. “Had he injured anything
within the joint itself, an operation
would’ve been necessary, but after
examining the knee, I determined
the injury was only to the ligament.
So surgery wasn’t necessary.
“Whoever said Tim Foli was dif
ficult to deal with didn’t take the
necessary trouble to know him. He
cooperated beautifully and now he’s
playing again. That makes me feel
wonderful.”
Parkes, who’s 43 but doesn’t look
it, is president-elect of the Major
League Physicians’ Association.
He’s on the staff of both Roosevelt
Hospital and Columbia Presbyte
rian in New York and teaches
medicine at Columbia University.
A former navy commander.
Parkes comes from Red
and originally aspired to
trooper. That was before
tended Dartmouth, then!
Medical School. Sometin
mistaken for one of
players by autograph seek"
One of them, a boyaboul
10, thrust his scorecard in
Parkes coming out of tie
exit at Shea Stadium thed
ning.
Parkes obliged the boykj
his name. The kid exami;
signature for a moment and
fell when he realized it s;
the team physician.
“Gee,” said the
mother, glumly. He
across Lee Mazzilli’s namt
Vol. 71
2 Pag
By United Press International
HOUSTON — The rest of the
National League is now learning
what the Houston Astros have
known for years: Ted Simmons is
the best catcher around.
Simmons, the St. Louis Cardi
nals’ offense, slipped into the league
lead in hitting this past weekend by
upping his batting average to .337.
Against the Astros, he always has hit
a ton.
“I pitch as carefully to Ted as I do
to anyone else in the league,” said
Astros pitcher J.R. Richard, whose
five-hitter Sunday was not good
enough.
Richard’s physical and mental
mistakes made him a loser for the
sixth time this year. Simmons’ run
scoring single in the first inning con
tributed to the Cardinals’ 4-2
victory.
In the four-game, three-day se
ries at the Astrodome, Simmons
reached base eight times in 13 at-
bats. Richard, en route to a 13-
strikeout performance, allowed two
singles in the first four innings Sun
day. Simmons got them both.
The next two times he came to
bat, after the Cardinals had struck
for a 4-1 lead, Simmons was walked.
St. Louis manager Ken Boyer said
simply, “I don’t know how any
catcher could hit any better than
Ted.”
If Boyer had any other consistent
hitters to bunch with Simmons, the
Cardinals would be a much better
team.
Manager Boyer still is looking for
hitters, but one of his pitching prob
lems is being eliminated by
second-year right-hander Silvio
Martinez. Martinez’ second major
league start Sunday was not as im
pressive as his first — he one-hit the
Mets last Tuesday — but he pitched
well again in picking up his second
victory.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. —
Ron Martin of Dallas drove his dune
buggy to first place Sunday in the
two-wheel drive event of the eighth
annual Colorado West 200 Off-Road
Race.
Martin finished the 200 miles in
five hours, 35 minutes, 21 seconds.
Larry Olsen of Salt Lake City, Utah
was second with a time of five hours,
38 minutes and 15 seconds. Third
was Larry Jobe of Las Vegas, Nev.,
who finished in five hours, 59 min
utes and 55 seconds.
Jim Burnside of Denver won the
four-wheel event Sunday by com
pleting the race in six hours, 32
minutes and 51 seconds. Burnside
was far ahead of second-place
finisher Chick Burnham of Midvale,
Utah, whose time was eight hours
and seven minutes. Third was Bob
Atkinson of Littleton, Colo., in
eight hours, 24 minutes and 16 sec
onds.
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