Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, March 2, 1984
Indiana Colts in the NFL?
United Press International
BALTIMORE — Indianapo
lis businessman Robert Welch,
in an apparent attempt to derail
the possible move of the Balti
more Colts to Indianapolis, sent
a special-delivery letter to NFL
owners Thursday and asked the
league to immediately award
the city a franchise.
Welch wants either an expan
sion franchise for Indianapolis,
or an established one — but
wants to become the majority
owner. His latest move was seen
as an attempt to gain a team for
Indianapolis, without having a
majority owner move into the
city.
Colts’ owner Robert Irsay re
portedly had offered earlier
this week to sell Welch 49 per
cent of the team for $21 million
and move the team to Indianap
olis. But Welch refused, accord
ing to reports in The Sun, say
ing he would not accept a
minority interest in the club.
Jim Saccomano, a spokesman
for the Denver Broncos con
firmed receipt of the letter, re
ported in Thursday’s editions
of the Baltimore News Ameri
can. But several other league
spokesmen either could not
confirm or would not comment.
Baltimore Mayor William
Schaefer, amid reports that the
city’s franchise is a signature
away from moving to Indianap
olis, said Thursday he doesn’t
think the move is final — but
admitted time is quickly run
ning out.
“When you’re losing 40-0,
and the other team’s got the ball
on your I-yard line with a min
ute to go in the game, you’re
running out of time,” Schaefer
said. “That’s the way it feels
right now.”
The Sun and the News-
American reported Thursday
Irsay that has reached an
agreement with bank officials
and the city of Indianapolis,
and now must decide if he
wants to move the team.
Sources told both newspa
pers that Indianapolis officials
were able to secure a $15 mil
lion, 8 percent loan for Irsay to
replace a current loan that ex
pires this year.
Irsay and Indianapolis offi
cials also worked out details of a
“modest” lease for the Hoosier
Dome, the new stadium without
a tenant. The deal reportedly
would also include a practice fa
cility for the Colts.
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Imagine how much money
Cy Young could make if he
pitched in this era. LaMarr
Hoyt got an idea Thursday.
Hoyt, the Cy Young Award-
winner, became the American
League’s first million dollar per
year pitcher by agreeing to a
six-year contract with the Chi
cago White Sox for just over
that amount per season.
Joining the 24-game winner
with a six-year deal at an esti
mated $950,000 was 22-game
winner Richard Dotson.
The Sox also reached three-
year deals with Rookie of the
Year outfielder Ron Kittle, who
will receive about $175,000 the
first year with opportunities for
over $100,000 through incen
tive clauses.
“It has been our goal all
along to retain players of this
caliber,” said Sox general man
ager Roland Hemond.
The AL West champion
White Sox did not, however, re
tain reliever Jim Kern, placing
the 34-year-old right-hander on
waivers for the purpose of his
unconditional release. At his
home in Arlington, Texas,
Kern said he would continue el
bow rehabilitation in hopes of
being ready by June or July.
ace gets
per year
Hoyt said he got “chill
bumps” when he heard he had
surpassed Ron Guidry of the
New York Yankees as the high
est-paid AL pitcher. Guidry re
ceives a reported $965,000.
Rich Gossage of San Diego,
Steve Carlton of Philadelphia,
Fernando Valenzuela and Jerry
Reuss of Los Angeles and Mario
Soto of Cincinnati are National
League millionaire pitchers.
Kittle set a club rookie record
of 35 home runs last season
while driving in 100 runs. “You
should be paid according to the
standards set by others. I feel
I’ve met those standards. This is
a fair contract,” he said.
At St. Petersburg, Fla., Jerry
Martin began trying to pick up
the pieces of his baseball career.
The 33-year-old former Kansas
City Royals outfielder, con
victed last year of attempting to
purchase cocaine, wants to
prove he can still play baseball.
Martin, who spent three
months in a federal correctional
institution, joined the New
York Mets for a two-week
tryout. Martin is suspended for
the season but his case is sched
uled for review on May 31.
In Cocoa Beach, Fla., Hous
ton Astros relief pitcher Joe
Sambito is throwing again after
a two-year absence from the
mound because of a major el
bow problem.
Sambito underwent three op
erations to correct a elbow liga
ment injury and had been inac
tive since April 1982.
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Catching a breather
Photo by BONN n
Tony Hildebrand rests during the
Texas A&M Hockey team’s 7-1 loss to
Texas last weekend. The Aggies, who
are 3-5-1, travel to New Orleans this
weekend to play in the Mardi
tourney. The tournament which
be at a rink located on Saint
Ave. features teams from Five:
Bell still Ranger’s third baseman
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. —
Give Buddy Bell another day or
so, and he’ll be fine. Nobody
will ever know he was gone.
Wait a minute. He didn’t
really leave. Or did he?
It’s a little hard to tell because
this past winter was no different
than the last three for him in
that every time you heard his
name, you also heard where the
Texas Rangers were about to
trade him to the Baltimore
Orioles, the Chicago White Sox,
the New York Yankees or the
Arizona Wranglers.
Why not? You think he
wouldn’t make a pretty fair
tight end?
The Rangers now say they
will not deal him to anyone ...
again. They said pretty much
the same thing about Jim Sund-
berg, and you see who he’s
catching for now, don’t cha?
The Milwaukee Brewers.
Had the Rangers been willing
to settle for a little less, Bell
would be the new regular third
baseman for the World Cham
pion Orioles today. The two
clubs kept talking about him be
fore, during and after the
World Series. But the Rangers
demanded too much pitching.
So the blond, 32-year-old five
time Gold Glover is still with
them. And he’s happy about it.
“I’d have been awfully disap
pointed,” he says, had the trade
with Baltimore gone through.
“I don’t want to leave.”
Disappointed over an oppor
tunity to be with a winner?
Hasn't that been what Bell has
been looking for so fervently
since he first broke in with
Cleveland 12 years ago?
“Well, I do have a tremen
dous amount of respect for
Hank Peters,” he says, referring
to the Orioles’ general manager
whom he first got to know when
Peters headed all the minor
leagues. “But this is my sixth
year in Texas and I wo
to leave knowing that wl
accomplished everyth^
tried to here.”
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thought we could win.”
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