Page 16 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1978
The Bird’s baseball career up in the ail
United Press International
ORLANDO, Fla. — Nobody
around the pool recognized him
doing sfimersaults off the high
board, which was all right with The
Bird because with his feet flying
around like that, he was never going
to make it to the Olympics, anyway.
After a half-dozen dives or so, he
toweled himself off, bought himself
a beer and a hamburger at the snack
bar and settled his long, bony frame
into a thickly padded lounge chair
on the fringe of the hotel pool.
“I just like diving,” offered Mark
Fidrych, baseball’s Man of the Year
two years ago, when he won 19
games for Detroit and tickled
everyone with his completely
unique and irrepressible pitching
style on the mound. “I’m not a great
diver, I’m a poor diver, but at least I
get it done.”
For the last two years, the unin
hibited, curly-haired righthander
has been having trouble getting any
thing done, having spent most of the
1977 season on the disabled list after
tearing up his left knee shagging fly
balls in the outfield and missing
practically all of last season when he
developed tendonitis in his right
shoulder.
The last time Fidrych threw a
baseball for the Tigers was against
the Blue Jays back in April when he
was making his third start of the sea
son after having won his first two
games. His arm stiffened up on him
and when it failed to come around,
the Tigers sent him to their Lake
land farm club in mid-summer, hop
ing the warm Florida weather would
help. That was in August, which is
the last time The Bird threw a
baseball for anyone.
He’s attending these winter
baseball meetings with the full
blessing of the Tigers and at the in
vitation of the Major League Physi
cians’ Association, 20 of whose
members are on hand and will try to
do what they can to help him.
“He still has pains in his shoulder
and everytime he throws, it hurts,”
explained Dr. James Parkes, the As
sociation’s incoming President for
1979 and the Mets’ team physician.
“So far, the problem has not been
pinned down, and we would like to
help in any possible way we can to
restore him to playing condition.
We are going to talk to Mark today,
all of us are, and try to see if we can’t
shed some light on his problem.”
What the baseball physicians are
doing with Fidrych at their seminar
at these meetings has never been
done before. Not in a group like
this, anyway.
The Bird is game. He’ll try any
thing he thinks will help because at
24 he doesn’t like to think his career
is all finished.
Reclining on his lounge chair,
Fidrych didn’t seem to have a care
in the world although he admitted
he did.
“The thing I think about most is
coming back and playing ball,” he
said. “Why not?” he shrugged. “I
worked so hard to get there.”
With his wild curly hair, his
natural, almost child-like antics on
the mound, and his habit of talking
to the ball, Fidrych captured the
fancy of baseball fans everywhere
when he came up to the Tigers in
1976 and proceeded to beat the best
clubs in the league and lead the
league with his 2.34 earned run av
erage.
Honored as baseball’s Man of the
Year during the winter of 1976, The
Bird drew rollicking laughs from an
audience in Los Angeles by shrug
ging off all the adulation he was get
ting from people, saying “they’re
even following me to the toilet.”
Fidrych has learned a lot in the
two years he has been with the Ti
gers. He has lost little of his basic
boyishness but shows more poise
than he did when he first arrived on
the big league scene.
"Fve learned how to focus on
problems and how to L, ,
intact,” he said, "sjj®
Rusty Staub has helped,,
education-wise. He’s 3^,,
listen to and talk to but !
have to live your own |
there on my own ability
ability.” ,t0,i
The Bird says the Tig^
contenders this comings
likes their offense, theird
their pitching staff, 1
good 50 percent better j
member of it.
Jayhawks
rehire
old coach
United Press International
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Uni
versity of Kansas began the recon
struction of its crumbling football
program Tuesday by naming Don
Fambrough as head coach in an ob
vious attempt to establish superior
ity once again in its own state.
Fambrough, 55, previously served
:as the head coach of the Jayhawks
from 1971-74, during which time
•Kansas landed some of the top
•athletes within its own state bound-
Wies — David Jaynes, Steve Towle,
'Laverne Smith, Nolan Cromwell
•and Terry Beeson.
But Fambrough resigned on the
heels of a 4-7 season and was re
placed in 1975 by former Alabama
assistant Bud Moore. Moore posted
7-5 and 6-5 records in his first two
years with Fambrough recruits but
gradually let state recruiting col
lapse under him and the Jayhawks
only managed to win four games
during the final two years of his te
nure.
Moore was fired this past season
when his Jayhawks went 1-10 for
their worst finish in 25 years. Intras
tate rival Kansas State finished 4-7
and whipped Kansas in the season
finale, 36-20.
“We will start in the state of Kan
sas,’ said Fambrough, who had
served as a Jayhawk fund-raiser dur
ing his four-year coaching absence.
“I believe in these kids. I believe in
a David Jaynes, a Don Perkins, a
Galen Fiss. I know we can win with
these kids. That’s where we ll start.
But if there is a Delvin Williams in
Texas, we might go visit him.”
“If effort will get the job done,
we re going to have a lot of fun
around here in the years to come.
We will have the type of football
team the state of Kansas can be
proud of. ”
Fambrough, ironically, was ap
pointed to serve on the selection
committee to find a new coach by
Kansas Athletic Director Bob Mar
cum. The first choice of the commit
tee apparently was North Carolina
State head coach Bo Rein, but he
was given a contract extension by
the Atlantic Coast Conference
school last week after visiting the
Kansas campus.
“As I looked over the applicants
from time to time, I felt the one man
who met all the criteria was Don
Fambrough,” said Marcum.
“One morning about two weeks
ago I was visiting with Don. I told
him that in looking over all the ap
plicants, I didn’t feel we had anyone
more qualified than Don Fam
brough. I said, ‘Coach, you should
take the job because you are the
most qualified and you can finish the
job you began eight years ago.’
“Out of the 20 players Kansas has
in the National Football League and
two it has in the Canadian Football
League, Don Fambrough recruited
them all. He took Kansas to the
Liberty Bowl in 1973 and he re
cruited the players who took Kansas
to the Sun Bowl in 1975.”
Fambrough was given a four-year
contract and he said he would begin
assembling his coaching staff im
mediately. He said one member of
his staff would be John Hadl, the
former Kansas All-America who
coached quarterbacks under Moore
last season. Hadl had openly cam
paigned for the head coaching posi
tion.
“I thought it was exciting eight
years ago when I got the job but it
was nothing like this,” said Fam
brough. “I made some mistakes but
I’m better qualified to be a head
coach now than I was eight years
ago. I’ve been like a fish out of water
the last four years. I’ve tried to dis
guise it.
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