Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
Friday, October 14,1983/The Battalion/Page 13
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Nov;
'rioles' hitters are
ew Three Stooges
§ United Press International
^BALTIMORE — For years,
lelas he Three Stooges have
11 lade everyone laugh,
tail KThey’re still doing it, but by
tSitr he time the World Series is
I it: ivei, the Philadelphia Phillies
causi lay never care to look at them
lain .gam.
alveMThe Three Stooges —
i t Moe, Larry and Curly — were
dultjmong Hollywood’s funniest
II -omedians back in the 40s and
. ?0s. They have never passed
thjpmpletely from public con-
Misness because their films
> ire shown on TV from time to
■e and still are enjoyed by
VY'
^lerely out of a chance off-
Rd comment by Ken Single-
'Pon, they have been born
y^igain with the Baltimore
■oles. Only instead of Moe,
■ry and Curly, their names
ow are Rich Dauer, Todd
>u/ and Rick Dempsey, the
tarn's seventh, eighth and
jinth-place hitlers during the
egnlar season.
■Over that stretch, they did
ot frighten any of the pitch-
■dinurs in the league with their
mofaats. Cruz hit .199, Dempsey
Mi«i31 and Dauer was high man
latamong the trio with his .235
mhlfiire.
ey skM'hey’re not exactly tearing
stanihe pitchers apart in post-
:a$on competition either.
Binting the four playoff
st2i[ anu s with the White Sox and
I Mishe fwo World Series contests
diet; ith the Phillies so far, Dauer
Yfe'at .048, Cruz at .136 and
ieont»enipsey at .176.
■put the three of them cer-
■y made their presence felt
^Wednesday night’s 4-1 win
ise 1J :Br the Phillies that enabled
te Orioles to square the
SWorld Series at one game
MSt itjjiece.
t,ciei^\ r ith the Orioles trailing 1-
lyd'in the fifth inning, John
ootlcowenstein, who isn’t consi-
lseei%ed one of the Orioles
opfooges because he’s too good
:xp J[ hitter, homered over the
centerfield wall off Charles
Hudson to tie the score 1-1.
Dauer singled sharply to
left. Cruz, attempting to sacri
fice, was credited with a bunt
single when Joe Morgan hesi
tated in covering first, forcing
Mike Schmidt to pump twice
before throwing. Dempsey
followed with a double off the
right field wall, scoring Dauer
and sending Cruz to third.
Cruz came home with the
third run of the inning on
Mike Boddicker’s sacrifice fly.
Quite naturally, The
Three Stooges came in for a
lot 6f attention after the game
because they were the catalysts
in the Orioles’ game-winning
Instead of Moe, Larry
and Curly, their
names now are Rich
Dauer, Todd Cruz
and Rick Dempsey,
the team’s seventh,
eighth and ninth-
place hitters during
the regular season.
rally. Now, everyone wanted
to know who gave them their
name.
“I guess I started it,” con
fessed Singleton, laughingly.
Singleton, who was the
Orioles’ regular designated
hitter, hasn’t gotten a chance
appear in the World Series yet
because the DH isn’t being
used this year, explained how
he came up with the designa
tion for Dauer, Cruz and De
mpsey following a meeting he
had with Orioles manager Joe
Altobelli near the end of the
season.
Altobelli wanted to compli
ment him on the fine year he
had and at the same time he
wanted to break the news to
Singleton as gently as he
couldn’t expect to see very
much action in the World
Series.
“Joe called me in the office
and said, ‘You had a great year
hitting sixth,”’ said the big
switch-hitting Mount Vernon,
N.Y. native. “Joe said, ‘We
need a patient hitter in that
spot, so it wasn’t easy to drive
in 85 runs.’ He appreciated
what I did for him.”
When Singleton left
Altobelli’s office he told De
mpsey about his meeting with
the Orioles’ manager, but pur
posely embellished it a bit.
“I told Dempsey it wasn’t
easy hitting sixth with the
Three Stooges behind me,”
Singleton said, laughing some
more.
At first, Dempsey, who
takes pride in his hitting even
though he’s no Johnny Bench
with the bat, did not appreci
ate Singleton’s sense of
humor. He was teed off, as a
matter of fact, and he made
his unhappiness known. For
all of two minutes.
Cruz, Dauer and Dempsey
now are enjoying the pub
licity.
“I’m Curly,” Cruz elabo
rated to newsmen. “Dempsey
is Moe and Dauer is Larry.
When (Mike) Boddicker
drove in that run against the
Phillies in the fifth with his
sacrifice fly, he came back to
the bench and said to Single-
ton, T wanna be Shemp now.’
Singy told him he can’t be be
cause he makes too much con
tact.”
All three of the Stooges are
taking the whole thing in good
fun. They’re not mad at Sing
leton at all, and that includes
Dempsey.
“To be realistic, he did
have a pretty good year,”
admitted the Orioles’ receiv
er. “I don’t call what he calls
me, as long as he doesn’t call
me collect. I won’t accept it.”
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by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
The Baylor football team will
likely breathe a deep sigh of re
lief Saturday when it takes on
Texas A&M at Baylor Stadium
in Waco.
It’s not that the Bears think
they’re going to have an easy
time defeating the Aggies —
they don’t. Baylor head coach
Grant Teaff said he expects
Texas A&M to be as tough an
opponent as the Bears have
faced all season.
But after a week of practice
that Teaff calls, “the toughest
week we’ve had all year,” a three-
hour game against any team
would be a relief.
“It’s been a hard week for
them (team),” Teaff said, “but
we’ve accomplished a lot in prac
tice and we’ve had an excellent
week.
“We gave them Monday off
and since then we’ve been in full
pads every day. We’re going to
be in full pads again today
(Thursday) and Friday.”
Teaff said he thinks the
reason the Bears have re
sponded so well in practice and
are well prepared for Saturday’s
game is because the weather has
cooled considerably in Waco.
“It did something to them
(players),” he said. “I guess itjust
makes them feel like they’re sup
posed to be playing football
now. They worked hard and did
a good job all week, but we’re
going to have to wait and see
how they perform Saturday.”
Another wait-and-see situa
tion for the Bears, Teaff said, is
the number of injuries plaguing
Baylor.
“We’ve been really beat up,”
he said. “It’s not that we have a
lot of people hurt, we just have
some key players out. We’re
hoping that by Saturday we’ll
have a lot of them back, but I
think we’re still going to have
some, personnel changes at
game time.”
Even with injuries, however,
Texas A&M head coach Jackie
Sherrill is concerned about
handling the Bears.
“They have excellent speed
all over the field. Alfred Ander
son may be the best running
back in the Southwest Confer
ence. This will be a tough assign
ment.”
But Baylor has a tough assign
ment, too — the Bears need to
contain the Aggies’ strong-
armed quarterback Kevin Mur
ray, Teaff said.
“I was very, very impressed
with Murray,” he said. “It seems
like he’s got all the ingredients of
a great quarterback. He can be a
tremendous threat.
“Steve Young (quarterback of
Brigham Young) is leading the
nation in total offense. And
that’s who Murray reminds me a
lot of.”
Teaff said that if the Baylor
defense can control Murray and
the Aggies’ running game that
appeared to come to life against
Houston, then the Bears should
be able to defeat the Aggies.
But, he said, costly turnovers
must also be controlled.
“I’m sure they’ll be hoping to
rebound from the loss to SMU
(42-21, Saturday),” Sherrill said,
“so we’ll have to go up there
ready for a tough night of foot
ball.
“That killed us against Tech,”
leaf! said. “And last year, we
had nine turnovers against
A&M and that killed us. Any
time two major college teams
play each other, the team that
commits the fewest mistakes and
turnovers will usually come out
the winner; \
* the way it’s been
in the past and I’m sure that’s the
way it’s going to be Saturday.”
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