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December 8,1
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HONOLULU — Last year,
they were on the same side of the
fence. This year, they’re on
opposite sides.
It doesn’t matter. Gene
Michael and Joe Altobeili are
still good friends and obviously
were having trouble settling this
gigantic problem for which no
body seemed to have the answer.
“How many zeroes does it
take to make a billion?” asked
Altobeili, the new manager for
the Baltimore Orioles who was
the New York Yankees’ third
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Michael didn’t know the
answer. The two-time Yankee
skipper now handling special
assignments for them, thought
there might be six zeroes in a
billion.
“That’s only a million,”
Altobeili threw cold water on
Michael’s guess.
Just then, Hank Peters, the
general manager of the Orioles,
passed by on his way to one of
the sessions that make up the
baseball meetings.
“How many zeroes in a bil
lion, Hank?” Michael put the
question to him.
Peters was a bit taken aback.
He didn’t expect to be asked to
do arithmetic homework out of
the blue like this.
Michael and Altobeili both
gave Peters’
Looking at Michael and
Altobeili, he scolded both for
their mathematical deficiency.
“You dumb guys,” he chided
them. “You can’t even figure it
out.”
“That’s why we’re asking
you,” Michael said.
“I’m pretty sure there are
nine zeroes in a billion,” Peters
said.
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answer some
thought. After all, he dealt with
figures a lot more than they did.
Pittsburgh’s Joe Brown came
along and he was asked how
many zeroes he thought there
were in a billion.
“I’d say nine,” he said. “It’s
one thousand million, isn’t it?”
Michael, who originally was
property of the Pirates when he
first began playing professional
baseball, was convinced now.
“You’re right,” he said to
Brown.
“Of course, I’m right,”
Brown crowed. “I was right
when I first signed you, wasn’t
I?”
Listening to the entire discus
sion over how many zeroes
actually made up a billion, Pe
ters had an idea.
“Let’s go ask Gene Autry,” he
suggested. “He’ll know.”
“That’s for sure,” Brown
agreed. “He can even tell you
how much interest there’s on it
for one year.”
They all laughed.
The way figures that would
only fit on a boxcar are being
thrown around for some free
agents like Floyd Bannister,
Steve Garvey and Steve Kemp, it
sounded as though Michael and
Altobeili had run into their
problem of how many zeroes
there are in a billion while they
were discussing the skyrocket
ing salaries in baseball.
But, it turned out the two of
them were talking about football
and how the NFL players will get
$ 1.6 billion under their new con
tract with the owners.
The football players had
argued they were the poorest-
paid employees in professional
sports. Maybe they were, but
they aren’t anymore.
Altogether, the 26 major-
league clubs in baseball generate
$330 million a year, and when
you compare that with the NFL’s
new contract, it means the foot
ball players will now get the
equivalent of what baseball gros
ses for four years. Nonetheless,
nobody’s thinking of running a
benefit for the baseball players,
either.
People like Michael and
Altobeili never made a whole lot
of money as players. Neither was
a star in the big leagues, and
even if they had been it wouldn’t
have mattered, because the sal
ary structure in their day didn’t
begin to approach what it is now.
Aggie Ladies defealSn
Cardinals; now 5-3 f°
Jenni Edgar scored a game-
high 21 points to lead the Aggie
women’s basketball squad to a
65-57 victory over Lamar Tues
day night in Beaumont.
Texas A&M 5-3 on the sea
son, led 32-24 at halftime, but
had to hold off a late charge by
the Cardinals to take the eight-
point triumph. Lamar, which
upset No. 16-ranked Arizona
State while winning a tourna
ment at the University of New
Mexico last weekend, is now 4-2.
The Aggie Ladies led
throughout the game, but had to
break through the Cardinal
press during the final 10 mi
nutes. Lamar moved to within
61-57 in the final seconds, but
Texas A&M’s Ann Trinka hit
four free throws to ice the vic
tory.
Trinka had 14 points and
senior Kelly Krauskopf had 11
points.
The Aggie Ladies host Kansas
State University Thursday at
7:45 at Bryan High School. Kan
sas State, a member of the na
tion’s Top 20, upset No. 2-
ranked Old Dominion over the
weekend.
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SAN ANTONIO — Dallas
has seen more victories this sea
son than ever, but coach Dick
Motta said the Mavericks played
like an expansion team Tuesday
night against San Antonio.
“Tonight we played like an
expansion team,” Motta said af
ter the Mavericks took a 106-92
whipping by the Spurs. “All the
turnovers made us look very
young. We were six points down
in the fourth quarter and we had
three consecutive turnovers.”
Spurs coach Stan Albeck,
however, gave the 3-year-old
Mavericks more credit.
“They have a very good bas
ketball team,” said Albeck. “1
think the time has passed that
you can call Dallas an expansion
team.”
Albeck was pleased w-ith his
team’s performance and parti
cularly that of forward Bill Wil
loughby, who came off the
bench to tie his season-high 15
points on 7-of-14 shots and six
rebounds.
“Three people stuck out for
us,” said Albeck. “Ice (George
Gervin), Artis (Gilmore) and
Willoughby. It was good to see
Willoughby play a good game
tonight.”
Willoughby said: “I shot the
ball well tonight, but when I’m
open I’ve got to take the shot.
We crashed the boards better
tonight.”
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points on the third (juas ,paced bra
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It’s a long way from March
and DePaul has already lost two
games.
In the past three seasons, the
Blue Demons entered the
NCAA Tournament with just
one loss during the regular sea
son. They were then unceremo
niously eliminated in successive
years by UCLA, St. Joseph’s and
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abnormal for No. 20 DePaul.
The Blue Demons lost, 76-62, to
Illinois State to fall to 3-2. Their
previous loss was to UCLA.
“This may be the greatest
thing for us to play in a place like
this, in front of a crowd like
this,” said DePaul Coach Ray
Meyer. “Our shots were very dis
appointing. We panicked, our
shot selection was very poor.”
The Blue Demons hit just 43
percent from the floor. Illinois
State, behind 23 points and 11
rebounds from Rick Lamb, shot
58 percent, including 68 percent
in the second half.
The Redbirds are 4-0 and fi
gure to be a power in the Mis
souri Valley Conference.
United
Before a sellout crowd of
8,068, Illinois State moved
ahead for good, 58-56, on a bas
ket by Raynard Malaine with
3:15 remaining. The Redbirds
then sank 12 free throws in the
final 2'/2 minutes to pull away.
Kenny Patterson scored 14
points and Bernard Randolph
added 13 for DePaul.
Elsewhere in the Top 20, No.
2 Kentucky routed Detroit, 83-
46, and No. 7 Indiana beat
Notre Dame, 68-52.
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