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Battalion/Page 19
April 16, 1982
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The phones in the Atlanta
Braves’ front office won’t quit
ringing. Callers are asking if
they can order World Series
tickets. With the still unbeaten
Braves on a roll at 8-and-0,
Wayne Minshew, their public re
lations and promotions director,
laughingly says, “We’ve taken
ring measurements already.”
The let’s-have-some-fun-
and-enjoy-ourselves spirit that
prevailed in spring training and
enabled them to finish with the
best record of any major league
club has carried over. And while
the Braves are realistic enough
to concede they’re bound to lose
a ball game before everything is
over, they’re sticking their chins
out and claiming they won’t lose
that many.
“W'hat’s the big difference in
this ball club?” asks Brett Butler,
the Braves’ gung ho, little
leadoff hitter and center fielder.
“I’ll tell you what the big differ
ence is in two words — Joe
Torre.”
Claudell Washington, one of
the Braves’ other outfielders
who played for Torre with the
Mets, says he looks like the same
old Joe Torre to him and that
the dif ference this year is “you
got guys who believe in them
selves now.”
Torre agrees with Washing
ton. He isn’t managing any dif
ferent with the Braves than he
did with the Mets. He didn’t
undergo any dramatic meta
morphosis over the winter.
Since the Mets’ managerial job
was his first, however, he’s ap
plying many of the things he
learned with them .
And what has John Stearns
got to say about all this? Last
month, you may remember, the
Mets’ receiver said the trouble
with the Mets the past few years
was that they were too loose a
ship with Torre at the helm.
“But I also said he learned a
lot by the experience and he’d be
likely to be a much better mana
ger with the Braves,” Stearns
says now. “From the way it looks
so far, you wouldn’t argue that I
was wrong”.
In Cincinnati, Reds’ Manager
Johnny McNamara laughs
whenever anybody asks him if
Dave Concepcion is slowing up
at shortstop. “Sometimes, he’ll
tell me he could use a night off,”
McNamara says. “When he gets
to the park the next day, I’ll ask
him how he feels and he’ll say
OK. I’ll tell him he can have the
night off and he’ll say, ‘No, no, I
can play.’ Then he goes out
there and plays like hell” .
In Philadelphia, it is no won
der the Phillies are going after
Dave Parker. Without a power-
hitting, lefthanded swinger like
him in the batting order behind
him, Mike Schmidt, out with a
rib injury now, isn’t going to
have a whole lot of fun this year.
He could even wind up leading
the league in walks.
In New York, a funny piece of
business happened during the
third inning of last Tuesday’s
contest between the Mets and
Phillies at Shea Stadium. Steve
Carlton, pitching for the Phils,
committed a step balk with a
runner on first and first base
umpire Randy Marsh alertly cal
led it, waving the runner to
second and bringing Phillies’
manager Pat Corrales out of the
dugout.
Marsh listened to what Cor
rales had to say and then said to
him, “You didn’t raise your
voice and you didn’t use any bad
language, but I’m going to have
to throw you out anyway be
cause protesting a step balk calls
for automatic ejection.”
Corrales, who managed the
Texas Rangers in 1979 and 1980
but worked as an administrative
aide for them last year, went
quietly. When asked about it la
ter, he said simply, “I forgot.”
What he meant was that when he
first began managing in the
American League, a manager
could go out and protest a step
balk without automatically being
ejected. The AL changed that
rule a few years ago, so that now
if you go out to protest the step
balk, it doesn’t matter what
league you’re in, you’re outta
there.
Watchful eyes
staff photo by Eric Mitchell
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Texas A&M coach Jackie Sherrill looks
B as team members get into their
fauces during a team workout this
veek. The Aggies hold their 11th
practice of the spring this afternoon
at 4, and a scrimmage will be held
Saturday at 2 p.m. in Kyle Field.
The public is welcome.
Cardinals win fifth staight
shutting down Cubs, 6-1
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lomez bested Rod fall
itralia, 6-2, 6-3, and
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. beat Steve Deton d - Uni,ed f >ress I ,» terna f‘? nal I
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, ‘ j' ' lulling staff is looking like
he was lucky on somtfq , ? . . " . ,
ni ,()nd beaters these days, but
points and said Den11 ,, .
1 , , ,i_ hicago Cubs Manager Lee Elia
isists it’s still strictlv from Mis-
lered by the slicks
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In other words, “Show Me”
mie October.
Bteve Mura turned in the
ardinals’ second straight com-
lete-game victory Thursday by
opping the Cubs 6-1 on four
ts. But Elia wasn’t overly im-
Cessed with the righthander’s
nformance, even though his
am did not score until the
Montreal Canadiens nt p w ] ien Moreland hit
es, led until 9:1 11 $ fourth homer,
game. 1 hen Stetek “j thought after the fifth in-
Keith Crowder'sfee^ he dicln ’ t pitch all that
nd defenseman qb” sa id Elia, pointing to the
mson and slid a I ctfhatthe Cubs just happen to
ictweeri Bouchardspjjp:,, a horrendous batting
ie score 3-3. Jm p “If he (Cardinals’ Mana-
:r Whitey Herzog) feels he has
other playoff gffl« ch a od pitch - n ^ stafT; wel h
y°ik Rangeisdefci'.’ij p now about it in October.”
York Islanders 54 \|, ra struck out five and
Heated St. Louis t wo in helping the Car-
ouver edged Los to their fifth straight
umph. Lonnie Smith and
?orge Hendrick supported
ura with home runs in hand-
gDoug Bird his second loss in
three decisions.
Elsewhere in the National
League, Pittsburgh beat Mon
treal 4-3, Philadelphia downed
New York 8-4 in 13 innings and
San Diego blanked Los Angeles
2-0.
At Montreal, Omar Moreno
singled home Johnny Ray with
the winning run in the ninth in
ning, giving the Pirates their vic
tory.
At New York, Luis Aguayo’s
three-run homer capped a four-
run 13th inning that carried the
Phillies to victory. The Phillies
pushed across the tie-breaking
run off Charlie Puleo on a bases-
loaded fielder’s choice grounder
by Gary Matthews.
At San Diego, Juan Eichelber-
ger and Gary Lucas combined
on a five-hitter and Garry Tem
pleton’s first-inning RBI single
enabled San Diego to hand Fer
nando Valenzuela his first loss
of the season.
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