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Juco
continued from page 9
It makes sense, then, to hand out scholarships to provenjuco
players, instead of paying for a player’s school for two years
while he sits on the bench, then watching him run to the pros the
minute they come calling.
Still, Chandler says he and assistant coach Mark Johnson
turned to the “juco connection” as a matter ol last resort.
“We would much rather sign a high school player,” Chandler
said, “so he can go through our program. With a high school
player, you get him for at least three years, if he signs a pro
contract. But we needed players who could play right away.”
Not to mention pitchers who can pitch right away. Using
Johnson’s west coast contacts, the Aggies signed juco players
Beje Mahue, Tom Arrington and Wayne Jackson in an attempt
to bolster the pitching staff. Chandler says those three, along
with returning pitchers Phillip Taylor and Sherman Corbett
and another juco transfer, Chris Hutchengson from Wharton
Junior College, will be in charge of putting things back in order
on the mound in Olsen Field.
“We can only go up,” says Chandler, referring to the Aggies’
4-17 SWC record last season. “But there’s no question we’ll be
greatly improved. By adding these pitchers, we think we’ll be a
contender.”
If it works, and the Aggies crawl back into respectability, you
have to give credit to Chandler’s juco connection — that, and
having pitchers who can pitch.
Even to the National League
All-Star game still not life-or-deal
NL old-timers use
power hitters to
slip past AL, 6-5
United Press International
CHICAGO — By now, the
National League has such a
monopoly over the All-Star
game that even the American
League’s legendary old-timers
have fallen victim to the curse.
A total of 88 ex-major league
players and officials — 44 of
them Hall of Famers — took the
field at Comiskey Park Tuesday
in an Old Timers’ preliminary to
tonight’s Golden Anniversary
All-Star game.
Predictably, the National
League won, as it has in the last
11 “other” All-Star games.
Unpredictably, it was power
hitting from a couple of former
Chicago Cubs that made the dif
ference in the 6-5 NL victory.
Former Cub outfielder Billy
Williams, now 45, smashed a
towering two-run homer in the
second inning of the three-
inning contest. Another one
time Cub, 41-year-old Don Kes-
singer, got credit for the win
ning RBI, breaking a 5-5 third
inning tie with a double to left
that scored 59-year-old ex-Giant
Bobby Thomson.
“It felt real good to hit the ball
that far and get a chance to walk
around the bases,” said Wil
liams, who was elected Old-
timers’ MVP for smashing one
out against renowned knuckle-
bailer Hoyt Wilhelm.
“I just find it kind of ironic
that I had to wait until I was 45
years old to get an MVP award,”
he joked.
The play was far from artistic,
but the memories were heavenly
for fans treated to the sight of an
A1 Kaline double driving in Min
nie Minoso and Mickey Vernon;
Warren Spahn, Robin Roberts,
Don Drysdale and Juan
Marichal taking the mound; and
Lefty Gomez — who started the
first All-Star game 50 years ago
tonight — humming it to a cou
ple of batters again.
“It was amazing,” said Atlanta
manager Joe Torre, who hit an
RBI single for the National
League. “It was incredible. It
gave me goosebumps, sitting in
the same dugout with the likes of
Kiner, Durocher, Spahn and
Mathews.”
“The best thing about these
games is the reminiscing,” said
Bob Feller, 64, an ex-Cleveland
pitcher.
Ernie Banks had so much to
talk about he didn’t want to quit.
Mr. Cub — whose trademark in
his playing days was the line
“Let’s play two” — could have
gone on and on. ‘
by Milton Richman
UPI Sports Editor
CHICAGO — They had it
right the first time.
I’m talking about baseball’s
All-Star game, which originated
as a figment of one man’s imagi
nation and now is equated by
some in the same general terms
as the latest running crisis in the
Mideast.
Originally, the game was con
ceived by the late Arch Ward,
sports editor for the Chicago
Tribune, as a baseball fan’s
dream, a fantasy in the form of
purely an exhibition game that
would count for absolutely no
thing. That’s what it still counts
for — nothing.
Not even with the National
League, which proudly adver
tises the fact it has beaten the
American League in the last 11
consecutive All-Star Games and
19 of the last 20.
Never once have I heard a
single National League player
broach the subject of his circuit’s
supremacy in All-Star competi
tion, and you are free to specu
late as to the reason for that. I
believe NL players rarely, if
ever, think about their All-Star
dominance, and whenever any
one else brings it up, the players
in the NL don’t seem to think it’s
particularly significant.
The only person I know of
who gets worked up at all about
the outcome of these All-Star
Games is Chub Feeney, the pres
ident of the National League,
and more often than not, I get
the distinct feeling he’s merely
following tradition.
His predecessor, the late War
ren Giles, was a National
Leaguer through and through,
first serving in several front-
office capacities with the Cincin
nati Reds and later as league
president. He honestly thought
the National League was better
than the American, even in
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those years his league was being
beaten regularly in All-Star
competition.
Giles would go into the Na
tional Leaguers’ clubhouse be
fore they played the All-Star
Game and really stir up the play
ers. He’d wave his arms like
some college cheerleader and
tell the players things like
“You’re better than them,” or
“You can’t let ‘em beat you,” or
“We got ‘em on the run now and
we don’t wanna let ‘em up.”
From talking to Warren Giles
before he died, I know he real
ized the All-Star Game wasn’t
that important, certainly not
anywhere near as important as
the World Series, but he still pre
ferred his league to win it.
Feeney isn’t as fervent but
that’s what he heard Giles say
and what he saw him do, so he
more or less goes along.
This whole All-Star business
gets to be a big laugh. So much
so, that after Tuesday’s 6-5 win
by a collection of old-time Na
tional League All-Stars over a
similar geriatric group of Amer
ican Leaguers, Feeney, already
“fretting” about Wednesday
night’s regular All-Star Game,
said, “All I know is that we don’t
want a split.”
To keep this all in its proper
context, bear in mind the one
victory here he was talking about
had to do with a game that went
only three innings and included
some players in their 50’s and
60’s.
Lee MacPhail, the AL Presi
dent, wants his league to win too,
but with him it isn’t nearly that
much a case of life or death. He’s
serving his last year as league
president and can joke about
what he said when he first took
office in 1974.
“I said, T can promise you all
one thing — we’re gonna do bet
ter in the All-Star,”’ MacPhail re
calls with a smile. “Since then
we’ve lost nine and haven’t won
one.”
MacPhail would like to win as
much as Feeney. But actually,
what does it all matter — except
maybe to someone like Pete
Rose, who nearly totaled catcher
Ray Fosse when he slid into him
with the winning run for the Na
tional Leaguers in the 12th in
ning of the 1970 All-Star Game
in Cincinnati.
Here’s something about all
this All-Star fever that may
make you smile:
Billy Williams, the Cubs’ 45-
year-old former outfielder who
should be in the Hall of Fame
but isn’t yet, was voted Most
Valuable Player in Tuesday’s
mini old-timers All-Star fool-
around for the tremendous two-
run homer he hit into the upper
right-field deck at Ctlir'"
Park, and for a fine bad E 76 NO. 170
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field.
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his 18 years in the
with the Cubs, so natuij
played for the National
Tuesday.
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