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Johnny Be Good
all indications, this young man named Johnny Hector
New Iberia, La., will be more than good during his
ir-year career at Texas A&M. Hector, a freshman tail-
, has continually impressed Aggie coaches throughout
workouts with his quick feet, moves and ability to escape
rtain tackles. Hector highlighted the final scrimmage of fall
aturday rushing for 81 yards on six carries and one
mchdown. Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK — Sparky Anderson
received his earliest baseball educa
tion the same place all of us did —
from the newspaper.
Growing up in the Los Angeles
area when the Pacific Coast League
had one of its franchises there, An
derson would go get the paper every
morning, turn to the sports section
first as a matter of course and study
the box scores of both the Angels and
Hollywood Stars.
And while the ballplayers, of
course, are the ones responsible for
all the drama and excitement in the
game. Sparky Anderson agrees with
me the newspapers serve as the basic
historic record of all that drama and
excitement, and in so doing, they
quite naturally generate fan interest
in both the players and the game.
Some ballplayers can’t see that.
They show a tendency to become
unhappy when their version of the
truth doesn’t coincide with the re
porter’s, and lately, they think they
have discovered the most effective
way of hampering a newsman is by
not talking to him.
It never dawns on players who do
this they are hurting themselves
much more than they are hurting any
reporter. He’s going to get his story,
anyway, no matter how many obsta
cles he encounters along the way.
And this concept has certainly
crossed the mind of Sparky Ander
son.
With most ball clubs, the trainer’s
room is off limits to all members of
the media, so that’s the first place
some of the players head for in the
clubhouse and it was one of the first
things Anderson talked about to the
Tiger players when he became their
new manager eleven weeks ago.
“I told them I didn’t want them
running into the trainer’s room,” he
said. “I held a meeting with the
players and said to them it was up to
each one of them to be a man here. I
said, ‘If you do not wish to speak to a
writer, it’s up to you to tell him, “I’d
rather not speak at this time.’” If he
doesn’t accept that, you have the
right to walk away.”
“I got upset over a headline once, ”
he remembers. “The story was 100
percent the way I told it to the
writer, it was only the headline that
was at variance. Seeing the headline
made it sound like I was badmou-
thing the Dodgers, which I wasn’t. I
told the writer about it and he told
me the truth — he did not control
the headline. For me, that was a
learning process. I learned some
thing by that.”
The former Reds’ manager feels
that escalated salaries are as much
responsible for some players avoid
ing newsmen as anything else.
“When they say money is the root
of all evil, they are stating a fact,”
Anderson says. “Society is changing
and so is baseball. When you sud
denly take people making relatively
ordinary salaries and start paying
them better than presidents of
long-established, successful com
panies, then you get a backlash. We
have some people thinking they have
the money now, so they don’t need
anything or anybody else. How
wrong they are.
“Now you take my case. I signed a
contract with Detroit that has five
years to go after this. I’ll be 50 when
that contract runs out and I could
probably live ok on my pension.
But next to my family, this game is
the most important thing in my life. I
need this game, it doesn’t need me.
This game can survive without
George Anderson. I suggest to all the
players, general managers, farm di
rectors and right down to the equip
ment men and groundskeepers that
this game is so great, it doesn’t really
need any of us. ”
Sparky Anderson is a throwback to
those days, not that long ago, when
players played professional baseball
primarily because they loved the
game and secondly for the money.
“Let’s face it, where do you get an
opportunity to live in the style you
do in the big league?” he asked.
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and Joe Ferguson singled
eseventh inning to drive in the
isonlyrun Monday night, lift-
fie Los Angeles Dodgers to a 1-0
)ry over Houston that dropped
Astros out of first place in the
JonalLeague West.
| W .pss,J-12, retired the first 14
• ^ »rs he faced and got Luis Pujols
ad out and end the Astros’
yin the fifth inning after Jeff
|iard and Jose Cruz had singled.
heAstros, who hit only two balls
IG SCOll °^ e ' n fi e fo> fell a half game
md Cincinnati with the Reds
ling a 6-5 victory over Atlanta
pay night.
struck out seven and did not
|abatter in recording his first
int of the season. Starter and
Joe Niekro failed in his bid to
become the first 19-game winner in
the NL despite a strong five-hitter.
Niekro, 18-9, threw two wild pitches
in the seventh and one of them al
lowed Dusty Baker, who had
walked, to advance to second base.
Baker scored on Ferguson’s two-out
single to left.
In Seattle, Bump Wills went
4-for-5 with a home run and two RBI
Monday night while the Texas Ran
gers hit three homers en route to a
4-1 victory over the Seattle Marin
ers.
Solo homers by Willie Montanez
and rookie Greg Mahlberg helped
starter Doc Medich improve his rec
ord to 7-6. Medich was relieved by
Jim Kern, who pitched shutout in
nings to register his 23rd save. Loser
Floyd Bannister, 7-14, was the
victim of all three homers.
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“Your hotel is paid for, your food is
paid for, and the expenses are paid
for your travel. This is apart from
your salary. Sure, this is the free
enterprise system, and everyone in
every industry is emped to make a
good salary, but it seems to me that
some people in baseball are only try
ing to feed a fake ego with dollars. ”
In so far as those players who re
fuse to talk to the press are con
cerned, the ones who amuse me
most are those who believe that
without them, we reporters won’t
have anything to write about. I’m
afraid they’re not up on their history.
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