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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1979 Page 9 he sports ^Orioles, Pirates start Series >f freeze-fejb United Press International [uipment, imate the iberedaboutljj baron Tate i members, ujl hard-core mrj 174 gun bat lore than 10ft ] Is say ig Mansonco:i ; cult leader ij or the Hosemarv by BALTIMORE — With a cast of acters that could easily have e out of a vaudeville house, the ittsburgh Pirates and the Balti- e Orioles worked out Monday in ation for the World Series, fch begins tonight in Memorial bum. arl Weaver, the chain-smoking, dre-baiting manager, leads the bles. Chuck Tanner, who sur- ived a managerial term under lie Finley and lived to hear the sco music in the Pittsburgh ubhouse, will lead the Pirate lam-A-Lee.” ruce Kison, 4-0 in postseason drew the starting assignment ior Pittsburgh. Weaver said he Rted to talk to scouts before nam ing a starting pitcher. n he (herfi'Both clubs won easily in the with an 8-yei Pittsburgh in three games ; by himselffe | I been ill foj E ; off in tbe Sei ved in over Cincinnati in the National League and Baltimore in four over California in the American. Now they want to have fun. “Were going to play some hardball,” said Willie “Pops” Stargell, the Pittsburgh clubhouse guru who hits for power. “We were playing under pres sure,” said Weaver. “We won 102 games during the season but it was all on the line in a best-of-five se ries. Now we want to have some fun and win.” Stargell’s good-natured humor helps lubricate a group that includes among others: Tim “Crazy Horse” Foli; Bill “Mad Dog” Madlock; re liever Kent Tekulve — the human drainpipe, and the Pirate wives who celebrated Pittsburgh’s playoff sweep by dancing on the dugout to the club theme song, “We Are Fam ily.” On the Baltimore side is Weaver and his reliance on reliever Don “Full Pack” Stanhouse, so named because of the amount of cigarettes Weaver smokes when the pitcher is on the mound. Stanhouse is called “Stan The Man Unusual” by his teammates because of his tempera ment. Then there is the boisterous Sec tion 38, where the patrons wear Oriole colors and rally around Wild Bill, a cab-driver who stands atop the dugout and leads the stadium in cheers. The color and the baseball meet in Weaver, who keeps a book to back up statistically what he ob serves on the field. Weaver is analyzing the Pirates. “We have stats on Bert Blyleven, Enrique Romo and Jim Bibby from when they played in the American League,” Weaver said. Someone then asked him about Tekulve, who saved 31 games for the Pirates. Tekulve has never pitched in the American League. “Well,” Weaver said after a pause, “he’s a low ball pitcher. We’ll send up our low ball hitters.” Each team is the best representa tive of its league. “You can put both teams together and analyze them and you’re going to see that they’re the same kind of teams,” said Tanner. “Both teams have power, both teams have speed, both teams have good defense, both teams have good bullpens and we both have good starters.” There will be no designated hitter used in the Series, meaning the Orioles pitchers will be batting for virtually the first time this season. Announcing THE LAST TACO EATING CONTEST OF THE 1970's October 20, 1979 Entry blanks and details available at your local Jack in the Box Restaurant. College Station or Bryan. Prizes First 2 Schwinn 10 si sp< (Supplied 1 2nd 3rd Fourth >eed bikes by Wheel World) 2 Cold Weather Parkas 2 Cold Weather Vests $20 in free food s daughter, kij inann, 3 Brothers Family’ of Pirates ready for Series ic. were mum , ■ . „ , . . . KT United Press International V Baltimore — This could be Knig rtp 1 t|] . st t j me j n baseball history an 'd NhehellelB 1 ' 6 ,famiIy wil1 be P layin ? in the , ' iVorld Series, and if there’s any- hing at all to the old belief that love Bes the world go round, then the 9 Bsburgh Pirates may have the L- ^w»B imore Orioles spinning in cir- iohi Pittsburgh players consider B^selves a family first and a ball r < B second. You see and hear un- fciable evidence of that in every- Hng they do and everything they B ng oil availabl So fixed is the idea in their minds gallon. bt instead of having the word “Pi- rent in SatdBes painted on the roof of their Press, dim jugout at Three Rivers Stadium in irp., wassplittsburgh this season, they pre- rarticipatingrpSed the word “Family” instead, out HeatOi jnd the moment they clinched the ■onal League pennant by beating n challengetiincinnati last Saturday, the ball “We arewillw’s public address system blared million gal brth with what has become the 1 at your earn s official song — Sister sale price,” Hedge’s “We Are Family.” ek took out:{ Possibly of more importance, you ee Press, ariiritness the deep affection the ce to distri flayers show for each other in their 3 cents a gallcpy relationship off the field as well lers immeiLis on. :xon’s state® Earlier this season, for example, juoted isfai |t)lin “Hammer” Milner, the Pi- fay for oil. Ites’ outfielder-first baseman had Iso charged fp be removed from a game with the stating th Phillies due to a stomach virus, the same (TNot one or two of them, but prac- fore the “oil ; |cally all the Pirates clustered (round Milner solicitously in the y sent a le trainer’s room after the game. They Tiers, saykpre genuinely concerned about ■d up is winter t»B t limits, ikesman sadp inly a remiiJiB edit terms, i. ir policy, ” lif i , head of lib nstitute, sail neral tighten: is not chafi ;aid, it is tryi’l ce with tkf ; ney General Id an invests nto Exxon’s a! arly the stated one of their own. “How do you feel now, John?” “Is there anything I can do for you?” “Can I take you home?” were the questions they asked him, anx iously. Tim Foli talks about the “family” influence, too. “I started out l-for-28 when I first joined this club but everybody made me feel I belonged right away,” says the 28-year-old shortstop the Mets called “Crazy Horse” because of some of the flaky things he did. “When I was having trouble hit ting, they’d make me feel good if I moved a runner over or made a play in the field. For example, you know those stars Willie Stargell passes out for a big hit or a well-pitched ball game? He gave me one in a game I went oh-for-five because I moved a runner over. From the first day I came here, I felt like I fit in.” It was Stargell, the club’s 38- year-old patriarch, who first con ceived the idea of using the song, “We Are Family,” as the team’s melodic and spiritual signature. “We were listening to that song one day in the clubhouse, a lot of the guys were moving and keeping time to the rhythm, and ‘Pops,’ which is what we all call Willie, said, ‘You know something? 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