THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1979
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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
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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
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October 20, 1979
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'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
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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
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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
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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? We
oughtta make that our team song. ”
relates reliever Grant Jackson. “And
we did.”
The continuous disco music in the
clubhouse doesn’t bother Manager
Chuck Tanner.
“I can’t disco but I love it,” laughs
the Pirates’ 50-year-old skipper.
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