Group still on expedition
Ultimate baseball fans?
United Press International
ST. I.Ol IN — A group of
three' baseball “fanatics” is more
Ilian halfway through what its
members sa\ is a world-record
attempt to see all 26 major
league baseball teams in the
span of one week.
Bill Rattray and Joe Hoban,
both of Houston, and Miles Ber
ry of Los Angeles completed the
fourth day of their seven-day
baseball expedition Monday by
seeing the Pittsburgh Pirates
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fore flying to Dallas for the New
York Yankees-Texas Rangers
game.
The three, who are all airline
employees, plan to see 13 games
in 13 cities between last Friday
and Thursday.
“Part of it is the challenge in
itself,” Rattray said. “We are
fanatics and we’re big baseball
fans. We go to wherever we can
see a game because we enjoy it.”
The fanatics’ schedule
started with a day game in Chi
cago followed by a night game in
Los Angeles Friday. Saturday,
they were in Cincinnati for a day
game and in Atlanta for a game
that night.
Sunday was an easy day, just
seeing a day game in Philadel
phia, before flying to St. Louis.
During the rest of the week,
the three will see games at Cleve
land and Toronto on Tuesday,
Boston and Kansas City on
Wednesday, and at Minneapolis
and Anaheim on Thursday.
“This is something that can
only be done at the start of the
season because you don’t get all
of those day games in the middle
of the week later in the year,”
Rattray said.
“There was nothing else
going on this week, so we
thought we would go out and see
some baseball games.”
Rattray estimated that the
plane fare alone for the trip
would be $2,000 each if the
three did not have airline dis
counts and the ability to fly
cheaper on a space-available
basis.
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Sometimes, the good guys
do win — even in hockey
I watched a hockey game on television
Saturday. At least I thought it was a hock
ey game.
I was home for the weekend, and I had
nothing better to do. So I planted myself
in front of our television, complete with 30
cable channels capable of bringing me any
type of entertainment I wanted, from por
no flicks to Christian broadcasting to
women’s wrestling from Mexico City.
I chose hockey.
The New York Rangers were playing
the Philadelphia Flyers in a Stanley Cup
playoff game. It was an important contest
and both teams were ready. The Spectrum
in Philadelphia was packed to the gills with
out-of-work rink rats screaming for blood.
All the ingredients for a great hockey
game.
Now, I’m not ignorant when it comes to
discussing hockey. I grew up with the
Houston Aeros, with Mark, Marty and
Gordie Howe, Terry Ruskowski, Rich Pre
ston, Ron Graham and all the gang. 1 was a
fan when they played in the old Sam
Houston Colisium, and I was a fan when
they moved into The Summit. 1 loved to
watch the Aeros as they battled in the now-
defunct World Hockey Association, and I
thought hockey was the best sport ever
invented.
But this wasn’t hockey as I remember it.
This was a cross between Dorothy
Hamill and Chuck Norris; a heavyweight
bout on ice. If the game had been on dur
ing prime time, the censors would have
cringed. Young children wouldn’t have
been allowed to witness what took place.
It was not a pretty sight. In fact, it was
downright boring.
I quit counting the fights and scuffles
and arguments and penalties and the pun
ches thrown and the players hit with sticks
and the fans getting involved and ... well,
you get the message.
What happened to quick skating, sharp
asses and unbelievable goaltending?
hat happened to smooth plays, puck
control and a game so spectacular it has
been likened to ballet at 78 rpm? Ii didn’t
take long to figure out.
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The Rangers had the skaters, the pas
sers, and the scorers. The Flyers didn’t,
and to make sure New York didn’t use its
talent to an unfair advantage, Philadel
phia slowed the pace of the game down.
And oh, did they slow it down!
By bullying the smaller Ranger team,
Philadelphia was able to jump to a quick
three-goal lead. The referees called 7<) mi
nutes of penalties in the first period alone,
and New York was on the short end of the
stick on most of them.
When Ranger foward Ron Duguay. a
40-goal scorer this year, was ejected for
fighting, things began to look really bleak
for the good guys.
So when the first period ended, I
turned off the television.
Of course, there had been fighting
when the Aeros played, and I, as a wide-
eyed youngster, used to watch,andi
and yes, at times, even hopetherei
he some fist action.
But this was different. This was
players going at each other, “bkwjd
some steam”as the announcersusedtoj
it. This was one team leaning on ther
picking fights in the corner, slas
front of the net, cross-checking, hiii
and intimidating.
And the Flyers are masters at thid
of play. In the late 1970s, they wereon
the most successful teams in pro In
They also led the National Hockeyf
in penalty minutes for several yearsj
ning. Their style was hit and hit anil
and then light. The only problem raj
it worked, and every team in hockeyi
to emulate the Bullies from Philly,
Needless to say, they were a black ei-
the face of professional hockey.Thej
is intentional.
I thought, however, that
changed. I thought heavies were out,;
quickies were in. 1 believed it whenli
that the NHL had forsaken hittinj
scoring. But when I saw the Flyersiipi
their old tricks, I was just a littlei
appointed.
And when I opened up the Sun
sports sec tion and saw that the Rani}
had come from behind to win the
4-3, I was delighted.
You can imagine my suprise wh
read on and saw that Cam Conner,;
who used to bully for my belovedAr
had scored the winning goal. ConnenJ
he wanted to lx‘ known for moretbm
roughneck abilities. The Flyers’cqadiJ
complaining about the lack’ofolficiiir|j
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Sometimes the good guvs do win,
Yankees stave off Rangers for victory
United Press International
ARLINGTON — New York
Yankee followers tolerate a los
ing streak at the start of the sea
son about the way they do a bliz
zard in April and having both in
the same year probably would
have been too much.
So it was with quite a bit of
relief that New York manager
Bob Lemon had a win to look at
Monday night, even if it was an
untidy one.
The Yankees, who went into
the meeting with Texas as the
only major league club without a
victory, turnecl a 10-1 rout into a
10-7 squeaker. It took a timely
relief performance by Shane
Rawley in the ninth to wipe out a
Texas threat when the Rangers
had the tying run at the plate.
“It sure is good to get the first
one,” Lemon said. “They made
us earn it, though."
New York had built a seem
ingly insurmountable lead,
thanks to a three-run homer by
Willie Randolph in the second
inning and a solo homer by Dave
Winfield in the fifth. New York
pounded out 14 hits, seven each
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against Frank Tatiana and
Matlack.
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score four times in theeisl
and twice more in theninllil
had two on with onlyontf
when Rawley was called u|h
Rawley, a recent acqnisj
from Seattle, struck out p
hitting pinch hitters
Roberts and rookie Bobby)
son to end the game. j
“The only thing 1 had ini
was stopping them,'' Ranj
said. “It was a situation*
you kept waiting for it to
and then kept waiting s
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