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May 5, 1982
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Houston signs 12 free
agents for next season
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Up and over
staff photo by Peter Rocha
P’s Denise Armstrong competes in the high jump
^rtion of the heptathlon event in the TAIAW state
et here over the weekend. Armstrong won the
seven-event heptathlon by compiling 4,888 points.
Texas A&M, which finished second to the Longhorns
in the meet, did not have an entry in the heptathlon.
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HOUSTON — Team officials
said Tuesday the Houston Oil
ers will enter this weekend’s
free-agent tryout camp with 12
free-agent players already
signed to contracts for the com
ing season.
The team also reported for
mer starter George Reihner,
taken in the second round of the
1977 draft, had signed to end his
brief retirement. Reihner re
turns after attending law school
for one year.
Another offensive lineman,
Wes Phillips, also has returned
to the club. Phillips has spent
two seasons with the Ottawa
Roughriders of the CFL. He was
with the team during the 1979-
80 seasons.
The free-agent tryouts begin
Friday for linebackers and will
end Saturday.
General Manager Ladd Her-
ne more victory
Perry a step away from No. 300
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ylord Perry, that old fox, is
back in the weeds,
e’s trying to decoy every-
by playing it cool, hoping
eate the impression that his
start Thursday night in the
tie Kingdome against the
York Yankees won’t be
:h different than any of his
ious 633 others.
the Mariners’ 43-year-
righthander and the majors’
active player already has
n fighting the butterflies,
isn’t so hard to understand
idering his next victory will
he 300th one of his career
virtually will ensure his
ntual election into the Hall of
ic.
hould Perry beat the Yank-
for the second time in a
k, he’ll become only the 15th
in major-league history
in 300 games. All 14 other
game winners are in the
of Fame.
I’m looking forward to it,” he
its. “What do 300 victories
n to me? It would mean I’ve
a successful career.”
|:her
In his time, he has been ac
cused of throwing spitters and
doctoring the ball with outside
agents like vaseline and slippery
elm. He has even admitted to
having resorted to some of those
illegalities in a book he collabo
rated on with Bob Sudyk, col
umnist for the Hartford
Courant.
But nobody could ever accuse
Perry of not working hard. He
has missed only two starts in the
past 16 years due to his own in
capacity and the only complaint
you ever heard about him dur
ing all the time he pitched for
the Giants, Indians, Rangers,
Padres, Yankees and Braves be
fore this was that he’d occasion
ally “intimidate” some of his
teammates with his criticism of
the way they played behind him.
He doesn’t do that too much
anymore with the Mariners,
although he’ll never be able to
abide by anything less than max
imum effort. He gives it and ex
pects everyone else to.
“I see certain talent not get
ting everything they should out
of their ability and the way I feel
b
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about it is they’re hurting them- |
selves and they’re hurting me,”
he says. “Basically, I don’t see
anything wrong in bringing
something like that to the atten
tion of your teammates.
“Tom Haller was a good ex
ample of what I’m talking about
when he Caught me with the
Giants. He’d come out and chew
me out whenever he thought it
was necessary. He did that be
cause he wanted to win and he
wanted you to win. That was the
same reason I did it to others
later on.”
But Perry, the only pitcher
ever to win the Cy Young Award
in both leagues, always pushed
himself harder than he did any
one else.
“If I hadn’t, I guarantee you I
wouldn’t have had 299 victor
ies,” he says.
That 299th victory Friday had
some nostalgia for him because
his wife, Blanche, came up to
New York from their home in
Williamston, N.C., to see him
pitch against the Yankees.
“It reminded me of the times
she’d come to New York years
ago for voice lessons and she’d
skip the lessons so she could
watch me pitch,” Perry says.
“She loves baseball but she
couldn’t stay more than that one
day this time because she had to
get back to see our son, Jack,
play for his high school team the
following day, and one of our
daughters, Allison, play in a
softball game.”
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zeg said two of the free-agents
signed have local ties. Running
back Norris Banks attended
Memorial High in Houston and
had tried out previously with the
Oilers and defensive back Eric
Davis attended the University of
Houston on a basketball scholar
ship. Houston also signed SMU
center Lance Pederson.
The Oilers also announced
they had bought a computer sys
tem called a Quantel Sports Pac
to develop pro player profiles
and set up a collegiate scouting
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