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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1978 Conigliaro wants third try at DH ji United Press International NEW YORK — Tony Conigliaro is going to give it another try. He wants to make another com eback, No. 3 for him, and asks you to give him one good reason why he can’t do it. If Muhammad Ali thinks he can become the first man in boxing his tory to win the world heavyweight title three times, Tony Conigliaro thinks he has an even better chance of becoming the first man in baseball history to win a designated hitter’s job with some American League club on his third crack. Why not? He’s three years younger than Ali. And he’s in better physical shape. All you have to do is look at him. This isn’t one of those impulsive decisions on his part, something that suddenly popped into his mind while he was lying in bed one night or sitting in a barber’s chair having his hair styled. The former Boston outfielder has given the matter a lot of thought and is thoroughly confident he can help some club with his bat. He’s sure he can. Everytime I see Carl Yas- trzemski hit a home run, everytime I see Ron Fairly or Willie McCovey get a big base hit, I say to myself, ‘Hey, Conigliaro, you can still do the same thing. You may have four more good years left,” says Tony C. Yaz will be 39 next month; Fairly and McCovey both are 40. Conig liaro is younger than all of them at 33. He generally played at 190 with the Red Sox. Right now, he weighs 187 and he not only looks fit, but is fit because he works at it. For the past two years and 10 months, Conigliaro has been a sportscaster as well as a partner with his younger brother, Billy, in a ban quet wedding facility and golf course in Nahunt, Mass. He’s now working for KGQTV in San Francisco, owned and operated by ABC, and it has been three years since he last wore a Red Sox uni form. Today, he’s going to wear one again. He’ll be at Fenway Park in Boston where a TV crew will be recreating the near tragedy which forced Con igliaro out of baseball for more than a year on Aug. 18, 1967. That was the day he nearly lost his left eye after being hit by a pitch thrown by Jack Hamilton, and the episode is part of a new TV series called “Comeback” that also will focus on the careers of Frank Sinatra and Freddie Fender, the noted country western singer, among others. When you talk to Tony Conigliaro about the “coincidence” of his own planned comeback and the title of th e new TV series he’s doing, and raise the question the whole thing may be nothing more than a public ity stunt to plug the show, he doesn’t overreact one bit. “All I can sav is at this moment, in all seriousness. I’m contemplating a third comeback in baseball, he says. “People can think what they like, but I know the feeling I have in my heart. “I was doing some interviews in connection with my job at the Mets’ Old Timers’ Day celebration Satur day and I talked with Willie Mays, Don Larsen, Pete Runnels and Ron Hunt among others. Most of them were playing that two inning game they have for fun and a chance to lie recognized as athletes again. But when I walked out on the field, my mind was telling me, Tony, get • • • •• • • • •0 JTCMINSO* • A* THESE PRICES GOOD THURS FRI & SAT JULY 13-14-15 QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED • SPf ftRV AMO PLAY £ 4 O NOW YOU t AN OWN A SUPIKB Nl I Ot Kensington Imported Staffordshire English Dinnerware •* •••••• * AMO * ■RiHucnti mmumm OOCN STOCK OUAKANTtCO — OTSMWASHtK 04 TIMQIPTT a MO (OCMOOVCM SA/S tXQUISITe MATCHING ACCfSSOBV PllCfS AT IOW PRICIS Odds Chart AS OF JUNE 7 1978 r SPECIAL COUPON >••••••< Jfh 1870*} II no or wuas I 000S TOM ONI STOMI YtJII 0005 TON 13 STOMI vans 0005 TOM n siom VISITS •1 000 00 40 1200.000 to 1 15.385 to i 7,692 toi 100 00 415 1 19.277 to I 1.48) to i 741 toi 20 00 845 | 9.249 to i 7f! toi 156 •• 1 » 00 2.(00 | 2.IS71* < 220 lot 110 «*i 2 00 (.175 1 71 »•* 37 *•» 1 00 57,450 IJ9 «•» f! toi 5.5 ‘• 1 i— * - 69.945 1H *•» 4 5 ,#1 700 FREE m par S8H GREEN STAMPS wan puhchasp or *5°° or more bac k in baseball agaia you belong.’ ^ Conigliaro was vole Player of the Year in!; his return from his . one year later he hadl/~_ ever with the RedSnt> I" runs and hitting 361m Afier moving to th being released by the. of baseball three-a* and then tried coined the Red Sox in 1975. He had a great hitting 360 in Floriil hamstring and tore?; May and subsequo leased. ”1 flat out bet designated hittei 1975,” he says, the baseball and 1> “'te wasn’t anything more ^ A But I tried to beat rus cold, damp day in No ^ when we shouldir irrr played, 1 rip|H*d m\y ; c ‘ a was that. "For anyone vAo^ 0 cere when I sayl"^ P" again now, I can sayli® 1 ’ 1 storm Not once, bill i or can do it again beta natural ability plus 5/ ie push my Ixidy so hr atc make up for the morel 11 . I've been away. 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I liavf a d; the' ball well since thfQth Watson, who hasiftnec Open two of the laslacht: visited St. Andrewsfoaitin last week, playing Woter; A field of 155 is expfreets this morning on theiV sei St. Andrews, the birtklt i en-> jhe n ty’s I ;nts otinj United Press InKi 1 In a • HILTON HEAD IS1076 l'— Leon Spinks tumednses • Tuesday and the worldV mo ; champion had a ff'K) fir tc I [thoughts for the occasiohile jj l::“: Spinks •I ■ ••••••••# Uwf i “I’m up on the higlikid hi the hill yet,” said Spiid Moi recently begun traininpjsint resort for his Sept. 15 (fit In Muhammad Ali. “fmlfit w over the hump.” >uth Spinks said he felt hfkcove a little wiser with age.