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Battalion/Page 15
April 8, 1982
Ranger rookie bats
.318 and gets start
In the starting blocks?
Aggie center fielder Billy Cannon looks as if he’s ready
to begin an event in a track meet, but he’s actually
stretching during Texas A&M’s double-header with the
Houston Cougars Saturday. The Aggies, who lost Wed
nesday night to the San Antonio Dodgers 11-7, play
Arkansas this weekend in Fayetteville, Ark. Texas A&M
catcher Mark Magee had a home run in the exhibition
game with the LA Dodgers’ Texas League farm team.
United Press International
NEW YORK — Oh, no, not
another Willie Mays.
“I know there’ll never be
another one,” concedes Tommy
Helms, the Texas Rangers’
coach who played against him
nine years, “but every day in
some way this kid will show you
one of those very same instincts
Mays had.”
Tommy Helms is talking ab
out switch-hitting, George
Wright, 23, the same exciting
kid who has Manager Don Zim
mer and all the rest of the Ran
gers buzzing, after hitting safely
in 17 straight games this spring
and winding up with a .318 bat
ting average that helped earn
him the center-field job.
Last week, with Mickey Riv
ers due to go on the 21-day dis
abled list because of a knee in
jury, Zimmer called Wright into
his private office at the Rangers’
training quarters at Pompano
Beach, Fla.
“We’re putting Mickey on the
disabled list,” Zim told Wright.
“You’ll be starting for us in cen
ter field on opening day.”
That should have been Tues
day at Yankee Stadium. But that
game and Thursday’s resche
duled contest with the Yankees
were wiped out by snow and cold
weather.
“I’m not nervous yet, but 1 im
agine I will be,” says Wright,
who was signed by Hal Keller
out of high school in 1977 and
hit .260 with Tulsa in the Texas
League last season.
The fact Tommy Helms
would see anything in him to re
mind them of Willie Mays leaves
Wright hardly knowing what to
say.
“I idolized myself after Willie
when I was small,” he says. “To
me, there was no other player in
the world like Willie Mays. I still
feel that way about him even
though I’ve never met him.” ~
When he left home this
spring, Wright’s mother, Doris,
told him not to be nervous and
do the best he could.
“We ll be praying for you,”
she said.
She’s planning to be at Arling'-
ton Stadium in Arlington, Texf^
when the Rangers open at home
against the Yankees next Mon
day night.
cason
Rangers to open Saturday
Texas, NY snowed out
iambito and the left)
)t the final two outs
he Cardsgotal-for--
Porter and twomoni
from eighth-place
? Smith, who in twoplb United Press International
ig .500. But ■ARLINGTON — The Texas
ght the good knud Rangers-New York Yankees
i he needed it. ganic scheduled for this after-
He was pitching s®on was postponed Wednes-
s Manager WhiteyHgwy and the Rangers — having
"He got tired lateMWadc a trip to New York for no-
t take away fromtlifi^ng —headed for home.
H Texas’ season opening game
mbito, who eamedi' s |now set for Saturday at l':05
ic just knew if he I®! in Cleveland — weather
pinch hitters Tit#JP e,| nitting.
and Mike Ramsev ■ New York and Texas had ori-
he would face Cptnlly been scheduled to open
rick pinch hittingfrhfi 1 ' seasons on Tuesday, but a
nanup. But HerzotfP’ing blizzard wiped out that
lift have happenf® ne along with baseball action
Hendrick had “anfpat had been scheduled
elbow and couldni®
onSlKSMemorial’s Poerschke
gainst Niekro. Pone P . A 1
commits to Arkansas
nance to pass wIMV
throughout the Midwest and
East.
Wednesday was an open day
on the schedule for New York
and Texas, but the two teams
were to have concluded a two-
game series on Thursday. The
Yankees said their field was in
such bad shape from the heavy
snows that they were also post
poning the first game of a series
with the Chicago White Sox that
had been scheduled for Friday
night.
The Rangers worked out at
an indoor facility at Shea Sta
dium Wednesday and after
hat’s what amazes#
eantlhisbrotheTllf -
, a „? ra TP! Ch fl‘ Poerschko. a ’6-7, 205-
VV hat they dotsli t p ()Unc j forward from Houston
they would J 11 ^ Memorial High School, has
ody every now an ma( | e a ^,-(^1 commitment to
e t a * air Saa ^ play basketball at the University
ol Arkansas, his high school
| coach says.
I,- Poerschke’s mother con
firmed his commitment and said
her son would sign with the
Razorbacks April 14, the nation-
mge its non-conw
er, and as such, it»|
serve the goals arm
' the Prudential'sp
purpose,” the col
he company has»
the cost of the maip
sd at more
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line is located. [
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al signing date.
Poerschke averaged
points and nine rebounds a
game his senior year at Memo
rial. A 60 percent shooter from
the field, he was named All-State
and All-Greater Houston.
hearing of today’s postpone
ment they made arrangements
to fly home.
The team scheduled a work
out today at Arlington Stadium
and a club spokesman said the
Rangers would travel to Cleve
land Friday if it appeared that
the Saturday game had a chance
of being played.
Meanwhile, Cleveland Sta
dium groundskeepers, already
laboring madly to clear a record
11-inch snowfall, face the pros
pect of even more snow today
that could jeopardize the game.
Larry Staverman, director of
operations for the Stadium
Corp., said grounds Crews vyork-
ed Wednesday to clear two acres
of snow from the field.
Marshall Bossard, ground
skeeper for 45 years, was pessi
mistic about Saturday’s game.
“I’ve never seen this much
snow at the Stadium so close to
an opener,” he said. “We should
be able to handle this snow, but
if we get hit again, it could be a
killer.”
Texas’ home opener will be
next Monday night against the
Yankees.
Easter s
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smurfs h little bunnies)
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