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Cardinals
first for
Houston
Committee elects shortstop,
former baseball exec to Hall
TAMPA, Fla. — Travis Jackson,
shortstop for the New York
Giants during the 1920’s, and
A.B. “Happy” Chandler, the
second commissioner of base
ball, were elected today to base
ball’s Hall of Fame by the Veter-
United Press International
St. Louis Manager Whitey
Herzog said Wednesday that he
has been impressed with newly
acquired shortstop Ozzie
Smith’s desire to work during
the early spring training ses
sions.
“He’s doing something extra
every day — extra hitting, extra
ground balls,” Herzog said. “He
really wants to improve and why
not? Look at the money he’s
going to make.”
Smith will make his first offi
cial appearance in a St. Louis
Cardinal uniform today in the
team’s exhibition opener against
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In games Wednesday, the
Los Angeles Dodgers looked to a
World Series’ hero for their first
victory of the spring.
Pedro Guerrero, who drove
in seven runs in the World
Series, led off the 12th inning
with a double and scored on a
single by Candy Maldonado to
give the Dodgers a 3-2 victory
over Boston, their first victory in
three Grapefruit League games.
In other games, Atlanta beat
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At Clearwater, Fla., the
Toronto Blue Jays took advan
tage of two balks and four Phi
ladelphia errors to defeat the
Phillies, who were playing their
first exhibition game.
At Phoenix, Ariz., Mike
Tyson drove in three runs with a
bases-loaded double in a four-
run sixth inning in leading the
Chicago Cubs to a 9-6 victory
over the Oakland A’s.
Committee.
The announcement was
made by Ed Stack, director of
the Hall of Fame at Cooper-
stown, N.Y., into which Jackson
and Chandler will be officially
inducted along with Hank
Aaron and Frank Robinson
Aug. 1.
Aaron and Robinson were
elected to the Hall of Fame by
the Baseball Writers Association
of America in January.
Jackson, who played from
1922 to 1936, compiled a life
time batting average of .291. He
was recognized as one of base
ball’s finest hunters and was cal
led by Hall of Fame manager
Casey Stengel “the finest hunter
I ever saw.”
Jackson hit over .300 in a sea
son six times, reaching a career
high of .339 in 1930.
Chandler, a former governor
of Kentucky, was elected to suc
ceed the original commissioner
of baseball, Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis, and negoti
ated the early television con
tracts between baseball and the
news media in the 1940s.
He was dismissed as commis
sioner following a highly con
troversial confrontation with
Leo Durocher in 1947 and 1948,
whch involved Durocher’s
alleged activities that were “de
trimental to baseball.”
The Veterans’ Committee is
made up of 16 former players,
executives and newspapermen,
15 of whom were present. Buz-
zie Bavasi of the California
Angels missed his plane connec
tion in Chicago.
Glenn Wright, former Pitt
sburgh Pirate and Brooklyn
Dodger shortstop, polled the
most votes among the runners-
up, with former Dodger mana
ger Walt Alston closest behind
him.
Hit the dirt
Maff photo by Pwell
Shortstop Dave Kennard slides head
first into second base on a steal at
tempt during his team’s double-header
sweep of McNeese State Tuesday in
Olsen Field.
Going strong
At 42, Boston’s Yastrzemski hastil
lost his love for sport of baseball
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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — If
being in love means never hav
ing to say you’re sorry, Ralph
Houk must love Carl Yastrzems^
ki, because he has absolutely no
intention of ever saying that to
him.
When Yaz finally quits, he’ll
be the one to punch his own
ticket.
At 42, the Boston Red Sox’
lean and sun-tanned elder
statesman is about to begin his
22nd straight season with them.
“I’ll never tell him he’s
through,” says Houk, the Red
Sox manager. “He’ll play as long
as he wants to play. When you
have the kind of star like he is,
he’s the one who makes the deci
sion. One thing I know, he’ll
never embarrass himself or the
ballclub.”
Yastrzemski looks at it the
same way.
“Right now,” he says, “I feel
good and if I stay injury-free, I
think I could play in 130 games.
I honestly don’t know how much
longer I’ll play. It depends. I’ll
be the first to know when I’m all
through. I’m certainly not gon
na ever embarrass myself or the
team and I will never put Houk
on the spot.”
Yaz has achieved many of his
original goals since first report
ing to the Red Sox in 1961 when
he was 21. He has 3,192 hits and
426 homers and among his indi
vidual accomplishments are
winning the Triple Crown in
1967 and the American
League’s MVP award the same
year. He has played in two
World Series and has been
named to 16 All-Star teams. And
he has won seven Gold Cloves.
Last year wasn’t a particularly
good one for him, however, and
a foreshadowing of things to
come might have been when he
missed his first opening day ever
with back spasms. His .246 aver
age in 91 games was the lowest of
his career, but Houk feels Yas
trzemski will be much more pro
ductive this year.
“The guy can help you,” he
says. “Sure, he can’t steal bases
anymore, but he can still go
good from first to third, he
knows how to hit and he’s a great
asset to the club. He’s still one of
the best clutch hitters we’ve got.
He led the club in game-winning
RBI and that speaks for itself.
“It’s plan to use him as DH a
lot this year,” says the Red Sox
pilot. “If I can keep him strong
and in the right frame of mind,
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