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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1980
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quarter deadlotlines after sweeping a double-
mc lead. B from the University of Mis-
put the Spursoit|2-0 and 7-0, Monday night.
0-39, while Hi# Aggies, now 16-5 on the sea-
jonce again got excellent pitch-
1 the staff recorded its 10th
jiout in 21 games.
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tinemwi| ffed Missouri on just three
: u Getyoui; <tand upped her season record
ouri never mounted much of
ick against the Aggies as the
Icould only manage to get run
ners past first base twice through the
game. The Aggie offense, which has
disappointed Coach Bill Galloway
thus far this season, were once again
fairly silent as the Aggies collected
six hits in 23 at bats. Rhonda Reese
led the Aggie offense with a 2-for-3
performance at the plate.
In the nightcap, the Aggie bats
came alive as Texas A&M pounded
out 10 hits in the 7-0 win over Mis
souri. Reese and Mary Lou Wargo
each collected 2 hits in 3 at bats and
drove in two run apiece.
Lori Stoll, A&M’s left-hander, in
creased her season record to 7-2 by
pitching the three-hit shutout.
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Sports Editor
When he first walked out to the
baseball diamond behind Kyle Field
22 years ago, Tom Chandler had no
idea he would still be head baseball
coach 500 victories and one baseball
stadium later.
The stadium, Pat Olsen Field,
came in 1978. The 500th victory
came March 2 against Baylor.
“What I always tried to do
was to have the type of baseball
team that personified the
school. A hustling, aggressive
team with rich sportsmanship; a
good, clean, hard team. ” —
Tom Chandler, Texas A&M
baseball coach.
Chandler could not foresee either of
these events — he just wanted to
put together a baseball program
Texas A&M could be proud of. He
knew he had to satisfy a student
body and former students that fol
lowed Aggie athletics with a religi
ous fervor.
“The Aggies like to win and they
take a lot of pride in their school,”
Chandler, who turned 54 on March
19, said. “What I always tried to do
was to have the type of baseball
team that personified the school. A
hustling, aggressive team with rich
sportsmanship; a good, clean, hard
team.”
When it came to recruiting.
Chandler was after a special type of
athlete.
“I wanted a guy who had good
ler said. “I wanted a kid who would
fit in with the University.
“And of course he had to have the
ability to play ball,” he laughed.
Born in Greenville, Chandler
attended Dallas public schools and
graduated from Adamson High
School in 1943. After a stint in the
Marines, he attended Baylor in
1946. Chandler was team captain
and earned All-SWC honors for two
years. After playing two years in the
Pittsburgh Pirate organization, he
ended his professional playing career
and returned to Adamson as a coach.
During the summers from 1950-58,
he played and managed the Alpine
Cowboys, where he helped bring
along the careers of such future stars
as Gaylord Perry, Joe Horlen and
Norm Cash. Then Chandler, past
president of of the American Associa
tion of College Baseball Coaches, got
the job he holds now.
In 1959, his first year as Aggie
coach. Chandler led the team to an
18-9 season record and an SWC
championship. Twenty-one years
Henry
Dunn
invites
you to
come
see
him.
and four conference championships
later, Chandler entered the 1980
season with a won-lost record of 490
and 238. In the first conference
series of the season, the Ags beat the
Baylor Bears in the first game of a
Saturday double-header, 6-5, to give
Chandler his 500th win and a place in
Aggie history books.
Last weekend between games at
the Texas Tech double-header at
Olsen Field, Chandler was pre
sented with a plaque from the Athle
tic Council commemorating his
achievement.
His years in Aggieland have been
relatively smooth, he said, having re
ceived virtually no pressure to pro
duce from former students or Athle
tic Department. He’s had offers to go
elsewhere, but he said he’s never
really thought about leaving.
“I have had other offers to go into
professional baseball, but I like col
legiate baseball,” he said. “You’re
working with young men and can be
selective in recruiting. And there are
long bus rides in the minor leagues. I
just like the collegiate atmosphere
we have here on campus.”
Chandler said that former stu
dents’ reputation of being deman
ding has been blown out of propor
tion and said he’s never felt pre
ssure from them. He has enjoyed
his stay in College Station, but says
being baseball coach has led to
many disappointments as well as
triumphs.
Chandler says his two favo
rites were Doug Ran and Dave
Johnson. “Guts and determina
tion” set these two apart, he
said.
ships we’ve won and the winning
seasons we’ve had,” he said. “The
disappointments have been eight
second-place finishes to the Univer
sity of Texas.
“We have beaten Texas in the last
22 years more than any other confer
ence team, and that’s the good news.
The bad news is, we haven’t beaten
them enough.”
Chandler said his favorite team
was the 1964 SWC championship
team that wound up with a 19-8-1
record and a spot in the College
World Series.
“That year we won the conference
championship, winning two ball
games over in Austin,” he said. “We
went to fhe NCAA regional playoffs
and the College World Series. We
ended up ranked fifth in the
country.”
Chandler also remembers his
most frustrating season, which was
the 1961 team that led the confer
ence in hitting bit still finished fourth
in the conference.
“We had a great ball club, and led
the conference in hitting with a . 343
team average,” he said. “Virtually
“The good part is the cham
pionships we’ve won and the
winning seasons we’ve had,”
Chandler said. “The disappoint
ments have been eight second-
place finishes to the University
of Texas. ”
every member of the team hit over
.300. But in those days the pros
could sign players right out from
under you and just prior to the
season I had two outstanding pitch
ers sign professional contracts. We
had a great team with virtually no
pitching. ”
He said one weekend against TCU
in 1961, the Ags scored 45 runs on 63
hits, committing one error, but still
lost two of three games.
Chandler has seen many players
come and go, but says his two favo
rites were Doug Ran and Dave John
son. Johnson went on to play for th
Baltimore Orioles and appeared in
two All-Star games and one World
Series. Ran is still pitching for the
Los Angeles Dodgers. “Guts and
determination” set these two apart,
Chandler said.
Chandler says he’ll quit when he
loses his enthusiasm for the game,
and he says that won’t be for a while.
United Press International
ORLANDO, Fla. — Mike Cub-
bage, Roy Smalley and Willie Nor
wood slammed home runs Tuesday
to help the Minnesota Twins score an
8-3 decision over the Houston Astros
in an exhibition game.
Cubbage blasted a two-run homer
off right-hander J.R. Richard in the
fourth inning, Smalley hit a solo
homer off the Houston fireballer in
the fifth and Norwood drilled a
three-run homer off Mike Mendoza
in the eighth.
Hosken Powell also nicked
Richard for a run-scoring single as
the Twins roughed scored four runs
on 11 hits in five innings of the strike
out artist. Catcher Butch Wynegar
added two doubles and a single to a
16-hit Minnesota attack.
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MEN ^WOMENS
stejovsky named
art Award winner
RedCrossi
blood dono
dntment.
ior offensive guard Ed Puste-
’ was named the recipient of
■79 Heart Award at Texas A&M
Rrsity’s annual football awards
|uet.
stejovsky was voted the award
ote by his teammates,
er awards presented included:
acob Green as defensive play-
fre year,
erald Carter as offensive play-
;he year,
andy Harvey as special teams
of the year, and
— Doug Teague as academic play
er of the year.
Former Aggie All-America full-
back-linebacker Jack Pardee, now
head coach of the Washington Red
skins, was the guest speaker for the
banquet, held in Duncan Dining
Hall.
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