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Thursday, July 11, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7 * 1 I"! "'1 II.|I ; ||I"|I|II in I I III ■mu MHI P—i I iii Batiul 'A. njx & Bell wants Rangers to begin trade talks Associated Press I CLEVELAND — Veteran Texas R;ingers third baseman Buddy Beil k said Wednesday he has asked the ^ club to trade him and submitted a ^ list of 10 teams he would agree to join. ggrafl'H “It’s just time to go,” Bell said be- '' fore the Rangers played the Cleve land Indians Wednesday night. “It’s a pretty mutual agreement between gjiyself and the club and they said they would try to do it.” ■ Published reports in Dallas and Fort Worth Wednesday indicated A that a deal might be made soon, but the five-time all-star said he was not IVJ Certain if a trade would eventually be ^ made. ■ “I don’t think you can ever be real hareholdttjftrtain of anything,” Bell said. “If it nd a fracn. doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen, hip of 2! [Ve requested it and hopefully they e compai can accommodate me. i increases; "(The Rangers) might be going in un Si a different direction toward younger actual cas players. There’s no earth-shattering be reductfleasons. I’m not mad at anybody or bitter at anybody.” utlation« Sources close to Bell, who has ‘ ct t lal 'j played 6‘A seasons with the Rangers, last year saR i y, e was miffed when owner Ed- . l.aDil di e Chiles reneged on a promise to mdend - renegotiate his contract. i0 '*- But Bell said Wednesday he “(The Rangers) might be going in a different direc tion toward younger play ers. There's no earth-shat tering reasons. Vm not mad at anybody or bitter - Texas third baseman. ce and s “didn’t ever try to do that (rene- f joiate the contract). The contract tas no bearing on this. It’s just time for me to go. It’s just a mutual thing.” Chiles was out of the state Wednesday and could not be reached for comment, his office in Fort Worth told The Associated Press. Club President Mike Stone, Gen eral Manager Tom Grieve and Man ager Bobby Valentine all declined to comment on Bell’s status. Bell, 33, has gone through the Rangers’ ups and downs since being traded from Cleveland after the 1978 season. He reportedly had been promised by Chiles he would not be traded. The winner of six straight gold gloves has had several meetings in the past few weeks with Stone and Grieve in an effort to resolve the sit uation short of a trade. Grieve reportedly has contacted several teams in an effort to move Bell and may conclude the trade within the next few days. The Dallas Morning News said the 10 teams believed to be on the list submitted by Bell are Detroit, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles, Cincinnati (his home town), St. Louis, San Diego, Boston, Baltimore and the New York Meis. The Dodgers, Reds, White Sox and Mets appear to be the most likely prospects, the newspaper said. There also is talk of a three-way deal with the Dodgers and Pirates in which the Rangers would acquire Pittsburgh pitcher Jose DeLeon. Because he has more than 10 ears in the major leagues and has een with the Rangers at least five years, Bell has veto rights on any trade. Bell has struggled through the 1985 season. His average fell to .245 Tuesday night, when he went 0 and 4 in the Rangers’ 7-2 loss to Cleve land. r b< Astros deal vet Cabell to Dodgers Associated Press HOUSTON — The Houston Astros ended Enos Cabell’s sec ond tour of duty with the Na tional League club Wednesday by trading the veteran first baseman to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a minor league pitcher and a player to be named later. Cabell signed as a free agent with the Astros in February, 1984. He was named Astros team captain earlier this year, but had started only 29 games at first base this season and hit .243 in 59 games. The Astros got Rafael Mon talvo, who appeared in 30 games this season for the Dodgers Class AAA affiliate in Albuquerque, N.M. Montalvo recorded nine saves, a 1-5 record and 2.97 ERA. Montalvo was assigned to the Astros’ AAA team at Tucson, Ariz. and the Astros also recalled outfielder Chris Jones from Tuc son, where he had posted a .352 batting average in 59 games. Cabell spent six seasons with the Astros before being traded to the San Francisco Giants follow ing the Astros’ 1980 Western Di vision championship season. ; ration major ovdj tween 1911 75-year4| n chemiffil 1 Blue Jays now feed on baseball and ma il and gas ! think tin most peo- bird feeder. ie cheiBG * oil andp ; is no f assets, it! d gas put tid thee® the looko; By ED CASSA VOY Sports Writer In past years, if someone wanted to talk about the Blue Jays, jle would have opened their window and checked out the old bi The baseball standings would be the last place they’d look. Well folks, things are starting to change. I think I realized the change most when I saw someone walking around arnpus with a brand spanking new Toronto Blue Jays cap perched on his lead. Now that’s progress. I’ve already retired my first Jays ball cap because I’m a fan from way jack. I remember the days when they couldn’t buy a win for all the snow in he Arctic Circle. ^uisition ould be meone ek That has changed as well. Currently, the Blue Jays (.610 jet.) sit atop the American League iast, S'A games in front of the De- roit Tigers (.570 pet.). _As the teams close on the All-Star eed tnenn anc | a looming Major League itrike, the Blue Jays appear — and I lay that cautiously — to be ready to tang their first pennant over horri- le Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Cheeky you say? Maybe. Realistic? lould be. Down right un-American? 0 Exactly. The sheer suspicion these foreigners generate (even though the team is ade up of non-Canadians) can be seen in baseball circles. No one wants to ive the poor Jays credit for having a great ball club. Sure they play in a country where ice and hockey combine as naturally s rum and Coke, gin and tonic. But a new beverage is being hawked round Toronto — “The Blue Jay Cooler.” It goes nice with ice too. But let’s get down to brass tacks and baseballs. merit ceii' eceiveda wide pro- •esidential, ent, Gov.| Tuesday.! will goto enter lor tal Reiar- y to treat Ff volatile ;ic chenii- :d. said the Statistics are the only things that will truly convince a lover of the Great American Game. So I will quote a few as supporting evidence. Pitching has probably been the biggest plus for the men in blue, white and red. Right now the Jays probably have baseball’s best starting pitcher in Dave Stieb. Since May 17, Stieb has allowed more than two runs only once, he has allowed 10 earned runs in his past 11 outings for a 1.04 ERA through that stretch. Stieb now has a league-leading ERA of 1.84. Only Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets of the National League has a lower ERA among starters at 1.74. The rest of the bullpen, though struggling lately, has given Toronto manager Bobby Cox something to smile about. Acquiring veteran lefty reliever Gary Lavelle, the improved play of Den nis Lamp, Jim Acker and Jimmy Key promise a strong anchor for the Jays down the stretch. That’s something they didn’t have last year during a disasterous slide in the standings late last season. George Bell has been the best Toronto slugger, hammering in 16 home runs already this season to just nine overall in ’84. Bell’s RBI production has edged up from 42 in ’84 to 49 this year. With 250 less at bats, Toronto’s team hitting average has moved from .251 to .258. RBI production has steadily improved with the Jays collecting 356 ribbies this year to 345 in ’84. Catcher Ernie Whitt is having a much improved year with 10 home runs, 36 RBIs and a .280 batting average, 40 points higher than a year ago. So much for the stats. American baseball fans have to look at the human side of this whole situ ation, too. Don’t you get a little tingle (or shiver depending on how you feel about the situation), when you imagine seeing the World Series played in Toronto, Canada. In October. In the snow. Um, I think I’ll check the bird feeder again just to see if the birds have headed north yet. Herr wins NL All-Star team starting job Associated Press NEW YORK — Tommy Herr of he St. Louis Cardinals overtook hicago’s Ryne Sandberg in the final ote tabulation to win the starting job at second base for the National League All-Star team, Commis- bed resi sioner Peter Ueberroth announced ■scents 1J Wednesday. he clients Herr, leading the major leagues in ron. Hi-; tuns batted in and second in the Na sties andi honal League in hitting, overcame a roughout I Nearly 32,000-vote deficit to beat I Sandberg by 58,629 ballots in the tightest NL race. He received 1,109,178 votes to 1,050,549 for the Cubs’ second baseman and becomes the fourth different NL starter at the position in the last four years, following Davey Lopes, Steve Sax and Sandberg. “I was in that positon last year so I know what it’s like coming from be hind,” Sandberg said Wednesday. “Tommy Herr is definitely having an all-star season and that’s what the game is for. In this case the fans did theirjob.” erg by 58,629 Forty-year-old Graig Nettles of the San Diego Padres won the third base assignment and will start for the first time for the NL, breaking a sting of six straight selections for Philadelphia’s Mike Schmidt. Nettles, an American League starter in 1975 and a 1980 replacement for injured George Brett, received 1,032,335 votes to 739,793 for Schmidt, who was switched to first base by the Phillies earlier this sea son. The six other NL starters chosen by the fans in the balloting spon sored by Gillette are all repeaters from last year’s squad which de feated the Americans 3-1 at San Francisco. Center fielder Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves, stalling for the fourth straight year, led all NL play ers with 1,425,952 votes. The other starting outfielders will be Tony Gwynn of San Diego, last year’s bat ting champion who landed 968,262 See See All-Star, page 8 they're it ■id theysfl gation als) likulski i,; Michai (■foody, Ohio, aid. “Von ' hope and le world n so bring if nding tliai reunifo he l i not y I II I- 11 r ii 1 *! 1 M I II % '49» €€ Special! You want a spacious efficiency? WILLOWICK has it for *199!! You want a roomy one bedroom? WILLOWICK has it for *215!! . You want a homey two bedroom? WILLOWICK has it for *265!! UMITEO TIME CEEEE Oh yes... WILLOWICK has loads of amenities! Come look us over... You will lease TODAY! WE BUY BOOKS EVERY DAY! 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