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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1979
Dent happy to be working
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NEW YORK — Bucky Dent gets
up off' his laurels and goes back to
work today and you never saw any
one happier in your life.
He’s headed for Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., to prepare for a new season
with the world champion Yankees
and he says you have no idea how
good it’ll feel to put on the uniform
again.
When you talk to Bucky Dent
about the past four months, he
doesn’t try to describe them, he
merely shakes his head.
For starters, there was that
three-run home run of his olf Mike
Torrez that brought the Yankees
from behind and broke the backs of
the Red Sox in the Eastern Division
playoff. That was followed by his
being voted the World Series’ MVP
after he helped do in the Dodgers
with a .417 batting average. And
then came Bucky-in-Wonderland,
the off-season to cap all off-seasons,
when the dark-haired 27-year-old
Yankee shortstop discovered he was
one of the most marketable com
modities in America commercially.
Without so much as lifting a bat or
fielding a ground ball, Bucky Dent
made himself probably somewhere
between $150,000 to $200,000,
which isn’t exactly cheese dip for a
guy who batted .243 and hit only
five homers during the regnlar sea
son and a sixth one in the playoff.
Dent wasn’t looking to grab all he
possibly could, either. When he
went to Knoxville, Tenn., last
Saturday where he had played ear
lier in his career, he turned back the
$2,400 he was paid and asked that it
be used to buy tickets to the local
games for the underprivileged kids
in the city.
Everywhere Bucky Dent went
this winter, people flocked around
him. Particularly the ladies, who
obviously were attracted to him by
his softstyled, down-home manner
and evenly chiseled good looks.
Over the weekend. Dent partici
pated in a sports forum at the Con
cord Hotel where he answered
questions from guests of all ages.
One 12-year-old girl in the audi
ence raised her hand and asked
Dent whether she could kiss him.
“Sure, he said, laughing. “Why
not?”
The little girl marched herself to
the stage and the Yankee shortstop
delivered just as he promised. The
crowd gave him a big hand.
Dent is especially anxious to get
to the Yankees’ camp so he can
spend time with Charlie Lau, the
club’s new batting coach who did so
much for several of Kansas City’s
hitters. Lau specializes in teaching
hitters to go to the opposite field.
“I’m really excited about that,”
Dent said. “I’ve never had a good
hitting instructor.
When the right-handed hitting
Dent first came up with the White
Sox six seasons ago, he was a dead
pull hitter. Lately, he has been try
ing to hit more to the opposite field.
People have bombarded Dent
with all kinds of questions since last
October. The one he has been asked
most often, he said, was whether he
feels what he did against the Dod
gers was strictly a one-shot proposi
tion or whether he thinks he can
ever duplicate such a performance.
“Nobody ever goes into a World
Series expecting to be a hero, said
Dent. “You play the game and see
what happens. I think I have the
ability play as well as I did last year.
I really feel I’m a better hitter than I
^vas last season. That doesn’t mean
I’m gonna shoot for home runs,
though. I’m not a home run hitter.
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across Pontchartrain
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METAIRIE, La. — Because of
the New Orleans police strike, the
world’s longest bridge became the
world’s longest running track for the
16th annual Mardi Gras Marathon.
A wheelchair-bound marathoner
rolled himself across the finish line
ahead of 1,400 runners Sunday to
“win” the marathon in just more
than two hours. But the first runner
over the line was John Dimick of
Brattleboro, Vt., who finished in
2:11:54.
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Bob Hall of Boston rolled over the
finish line in his wheelchair with a
time of 2:07:11, four minutes before
Dimick.
Dimick’s time was a record for
Louisiana marathons and the best
posted so far this year in a
marathon. The first woman to finish
was Gayle Olynek of Fort Lauder
dale, Fla., who completed the
course in 2:38:12.3. Kelly Briant,
11, of Naples, Fla., was the
youngest finisher. He made it in
3:19:06.
A strike by New Orleans police
men had threatened to cancel the
marathon, as it had most Mardi Gras
activities. But late Saturday, spon
sors received permission to use the
24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Cause
way instead of their original course
through New Orleans.
The race sponsors said the last-
minute course change made the
marathon the longest distance race
ever held over water.
Buses transported runners to the
Mandeville, La., side of the lake
early Sunday and traffic was closed
on one span for the run. State police
escorted drivers across the parallel
bridge in convoys, alternating be
tween northbound and southbound
traffic.
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The Texas A&M men’s tennis
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Trinity is led by Erick Iskersky,
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champion in 1978 and 1979. The Ti
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Tony Giammalva, John Benson and
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A&M, Kent said. "We are looking
forward to the challenge.”
The Aggies will take Reid
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