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Dwight Gooden of the Mets
relped blow away the American
eague in Tuesday night's All-Star
ame, and now he’s hoping to do the
lame with New York’s opposition in
he National League East.
Gooden, the major’s strikeout
ileader, gave the AL a glimpse — and
only a glimpse — of the fastball and
urve that has made him one base-
all’s hottest gate attractions. He
ombined with Fernando Valen-
;uela of the Dodgers to fan a record
six straight in the NL’s 3-1 triumph.
Gooden and the rest of the Mets
iow embark on their goal of captur
ing their first NL East title since
|1973. New York, with the fourth-
st record in baseball at 47-34, has
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Vfets begin the second half of the
good a!- ieaso11 with a four-game series in At-
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old who last year at this time was
pitching in a Double-A All-Star
game in Chattanooga, Tenn.
“He is an impressive young
pitcher,” said Baltimore manager
Joe Altobelli, who guided the AL
stars Tuesday night. “He has a live
fastball and is not afraid to throw the
curve. If nothing happens to his
arm, he’s going to be a great asset to
his game.”
Philadelphia manager Paul
Owens had the luxury of managing
Gooden in the All-Star game but
won't be as fortunate the second half
of the season.
"I’ve never seen a young fellow
with the type of poise he has,”
Owens said. “That’s the way he’s
been pitching all along. That’s why I
had no fear of selecting him.”
The Cubs are having a great sea
son themselves, trailing the Mets by
just one-half game. They appear to
be going for broke this year and the
trades for veteran right-handers
Rick Sutcliffe and Dennis Eckersley,
plus the return of injured Scott
Sanderson, have strengthed their
suspect starting rotation.
The Phillies, led by exciting
rookie second baseman Juan Sam
uel, trail New York by just 3 ‘/a and
the Cardinals and Expos are just 7 V2
“We won’t win if we keep playing the way we have in re
cent weeks,” acknowledges Manager Sparky Anderson
of the Tigeis. “The Blue Jays have come along fast and
the Orioles can be relied on to play better in the second
half of the season than in the first.”
games off the pace and cannot be
counted out.
In the Western Division, the
Padres, led by All-Star outFielder
Tony Gwynn, the league’s leading
hitter at .355, have a five-game
spread over Atlanta and a 6 '/a-game
bulge over Los Angeles.
San Diego is one of only three ma
jor-league franchises never to have
made the playoffs and should get a
strong challenge from the Dodgers,
whose injured roster could heal in
time for a strong pennant run.
The morning after another
rugged night with National League
white lightning, American Leaguers
resume their division races with two
key questions.
Are the Detroit Tigers running
out of gas and are the Chicago White
Sox just getting up a head of steam?
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The Tigers and White Sox go into
the second half of the season with
seven and one-game leads, respec
tively, in the Eastern and Western
Division, but going in opposite direc
tions in recent weeks.
The Tigers, once 35-5, have trav
eled at a 22-22 pace which has en
abled the Toronto Blue Jays to move
to within seven games of first place
and the Baltimore Orioles, the de
fending world champions, to stand
1 1 V2 off the pace. Neither gap is too
big to be overcome should the Ti
gers continue to play at a .500 clip.
The White Sox lead both the Min
nesota Twins and California Angels
by one game and the last-place
Texas Rangers by 7 ’/a for that mat
ter. But they won nine of their 10
games prior to the All-Star Game
and could be generating a momen-
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turn similar to the second-half drive
in 1983 that enabled them to finish
first by 20 games.
“We won’t win if we keep playing
the way we have in recent weeks,” ac
knowledges Manager Sparky Ander
son of the Tigers. “The Blue Jays
have come along fast and the Orioles
can be relied on to play better in the
second half of the season than in the
first.”
“We’re in first place after a slow
start,” says General Manager Roland
Hemond, whose White Sox adopted
the slogan, ‘let’s do it again this year.’
“We didn’t mean it quite that liter
ally, however.”
The league returns to action
Thursday with Boston at Seattle, To
ronto at Oakland, Milwaukee at Cali
fornia, Cleveland at Texas, Detroit
at Minnesota, Chicago at Baltimore
and Kansas City at New York.
In New York, there is the specta
cle of George Steinbrenner’s New
York Yankee millionaires flounder
ing 20 games behind the Tigers in
the East.
Dave Winfield is leading the
league with a .370 mark and Don
Mattingly ranks fourth, but Yankee
starting pitchers have been hit so
hard so often that the New York
brain trust (a euphemism for Stein-
brenner) is considering abandoning
the great experiment of the spring.
That, of course, was switching
Dave Righetti, a fine young starting
pitcher, to the bullpen. The tactic
was based upon the assumption that
the Yankees would be a contender
and, therefore, require the services
of a late-inning “game-saver.”
Righetti was a conspicuous absen
tee from the American League All-
Star squad in San Francisco Tuesday
night primarily because he hasn’t re
ceived enough opportunities to show
whether or not he is a star reliever.
Steinbrenner’s disappointment
has been heightened, of course, by
the unexpected rise of the cross
town rival New York ,Mets to con
tenders’ status in the National
League.
Wholesale changes are certain at
season’s end unless the Yankees
make a strong run during the sec
ond half of the campaign —- and
they have shown no signs of doing so
halfway through the year.
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TAMPA, Fla. — George Allen
and Jim Mora are taking a similar
; approach to Sunday’s second annual
[United States Football League
' championship game.
Allen, head coach of the Arizona
Wranglers, and Mora, coach of the
i favored Philadelphia Stars, both said
Wednesday they are approaching
Sunday’s USFL finale like it was just
another game.
j “I’m trying to stay on the same
I schedule we had in Arizona,” Allen-
said. “We’re going to practice under
the lights. That’s what we had to do
at Arizona for the last two months
because of the heat.”
“I suppose it would have been
nice to have had an extra week to
prepare (like the NFL teams have
for their Super Bowl), but I don’t
know that it really matters,” Mora-
said. “The way it has turned out, our
(practice) schedule is the same as it
was for all our Sunday games.”
The Stars, who advanced to the
championship with playoff victories
over New Jersey and Birmingham
after a 16-2 regular season, and the
Wranglers, winners over Houston
and Los Angeles after going 10-8,
both arrived in Tampa Tuesday eve
ning and got in their first workouts
here Wednesday.
“I think it was a plus to have all
that heat because the last half of the
season we’ve been very strong,” Al-
lensaid. “With an older club, we out-
conditioned some of the younger
clubs. We won a couple of games in
the fourth quarter because of our
conditioning.
“I’m still doing things the way I
did years ago. It may be a little old
fashioned, but this team has worked
very hard and long and they’ve had
a good attitude.”
Philadelphia has beaten the
Wranglers all three times they have
met during the two years of the
USFL.
Last year, when the Wranglers
were the Chicago Blitz, the Stars
came from a 24-7 deficit with 21
points in the fourth quarter to win
31-24 in regular season play and
scored 24 fourth-quarter points in a
playoff game enroute to a 44-38
overtime victory.
This year, the Stars, down 21-6 at
the half, rallied to beat the Wran
glers, 22-21, without the services of
Philadelphia running ace Kelvin
Bryant who missed that game be
cause of an injury.
“The Wranglers (on a six-game
winning streak) have played very
well of late and we can’t afford to let
them get an early lead on us again,”
Mora said. “We were lucky to win
that first game (this past season) and
I hope we don’t get behind again be
cause I don’t know if we could come
back again.”
“We match up well against Phila
delphia,” Allen said.
Sunday’s contest will feature the
passing of Philadelphia”s Chuck Fu-
sina against Arizona’s Greg Landry
and the running of Bryant against
Kevin Long and Tim Spencer of
Arizona.
Fusina was the USFL’s top-rated
quarterback while throwing for
3,827 yards and 31 touchdowns dur
ing the 18-game regular season.
Landry, a 16-year pro veteran,
threw for 3,534 yards and 26 touch
downs.
Bryant, the Most Valuable Player
in the USFL in 1983, rushed for
1,406 yards during the regular sea
son and 269 in two playoff games,
including 154 last week against Bir
mingham. Spencer and Long were
the 1-2 runners in the Western Con
ference with 1,212 and 1,010 yards
respectively.
Denver Gold owner accused of
‘tampering’ with Houston’s Davis
United Press International
DENVER — Denver Gold owner
Doug Spedding may name a new
head coach over the next few days,
but he also can expect something
else — a USFL tampering charge for
his attempts to lure an assistant
coach away from the Houston Gam
blers.
Officials expect Spedding to an
nounce by the end of this week the
hiring of Darrell “Mouse” Davis,
Houston’s offensive coordinator, as
the Gold’s new head coach.
But Jay Roulier, a part owner of
the Gamblers, doesn’t like the way
Spedding has gone about trying to
sign a new coach and plans to take
action.
Whether or not Davis is signed,
Roulier said he will press tampering
charges against his fellow USFL
team owner for the way he ap
proached Davis about the job.
“We’re going to make an issue of
this, not to prevent Mouse from
going to Denver, but to let Spedding
know that he can’t flout league rules
and get away with it,” Roulier said.
“All we wanted was for Doug to
ask our permission to talk to Davis as
league rules provide. He flat didn’t
do that, and we have a well-docu
mented case of tampering to present
to the league.”
According to Roulier, Houston
co-owner Jerry Argovitz asked Sped
ding several times in recent weeks
whether he wanted to talk to Davis
about the Denver job, formerly held
by Craig Morton. Each time, Sped
ding would say no and then contact
Davis anyway.
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