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Mike Schmidt, the 37-year-old
Jiird baseman of the Philadel-
omic {>| 1 i||i eS) was named tlie Na-
countn* oria j L ea g Ue ’ s Most Valuable
su$taiKiMi a y er on Wednesday for the
ird time, and said he wanted to
Bin once more next year before
tiring.
“I’m gearing up for next year
in hopes of being at this podium
<J[ 0 again,” Schmidt said at a news
inference. “I’m going to try aw
fully hard.”
I Schmidt, who led the league in
home runs and runs batted in,
ssaid he was not looking beyond
11987, adding that his thoughts
about retiring had not changed
since the season ended.
I He said three things might
convince him to change his mind.
"If my knees are OK, if my
ife and family can cope with an
other year or two and the club is a
contender .... But unless I fall
fWfat on my face next season, I
t • ftS ant to s° ° ut ° n to p- i’ ve * n *
^*sted and done well and I’m able
" ’ s to leave.”
viSKMisajl Schmidt, who also captured the
award in 1980 and 1981, became
11 I 1 '/ t ^ ie sev ^ n, h three-time MVP
" as '1 Winner in the major leagues since
u’I the award began in 1931. He
1 ::: joined Stan Musial of the St.
, Bouis Cardinals, who won in
shui 1940, an( j 1948, anc i K () y
iGampanella of the Dodgers, who
•wort,*()„ in 1951, 1953 and 1955, in
m : the National League,
elepuj Four America n Leaguers,
Jimmy Foxx of the defunct Phila-
Belphia A’s and Boston Red Sox
rcn ^ land Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra
^Bid Mickey Mantle, all of the
New York Yankees, won the
award three times.
■ | Schmidt totaled 287 points to
ipC beat runner up Glenn Davis, out-
IVW fielder for the Houston Astros,
who collected 231 in voting by
members of the Baseball Writers
Association of America.
Schmidt polled 15 first place
votes, five seconds and four
thirds. Davis received six first-
place ballots in voting by 24 writ
ers in the 12 league cities. Catcher
Gary Carter and first baseman
Keith Hernandez of the New
York Mets finished third and
fourth. Carter, with 181 points,
had one first-place vote and Her
nandez, at 179 points, the other
two.
Schmidt is the second oldest
player to win the award, two years
younger than Pittsburgh’s Willie
Stargell, who was 39 when he
shared the honor in 1979 with
Hernandez.
Schmidt described the 1986
season as the most enjoyable of
his 14-year major league career.
Schmidt, who needs only five
home runs to join 13 others who
have hit 500 career homers, said
he was looking forward to reach
ing that milestone early next sea
son.
“It will be the pinnacle of my
career,” he said.
Schmidt hit .290 with league-
league leading totals of 37 home
runs and 119 RBI in 1986 as the
Phillies finished second in the NL
East, 20*/2 games behind the
Mets. He was tied for second in
runs scored at 97 and led the
league with a .547 slugging per
centage.
In the field, the nine-time Gold
Glove winner made only eight er
rors — six at third base, two at
first base — and did not make an
error in his last 58 games.
Schmidt is the first NL MVP
from a team that did not win its
division since Dale Murphy of the
Atlanta Braves in 1983.
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Lady Aggies to open schedule
against Yugoslavian 6-footers
By Doug Hall
Sports Writer
The Rockets have the Twin Tow
ers.
The Lakers have Kareem, and the
Celtics have the Bird.
But the Red Star Club of Yugosla
via, which will square off against the
Lady Aggie basketball team Friday
at 7:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Col
iseum, has the Seven Sixers — seven
players who are over six feet tall.
For A&M Coach Lynn Hickey and
her young Aggie squad, the Yugosla
vian team’s size will present quite a
challenge in its season opener.
“They have great size,” Hickey
said, “and we won’t be able to match
up with them, but we hope to utilize
our speed and quickness.”
Hickey, who has played and
coached in Europe against similar
international teams, said the Yugo
slavian women are very big, but have
good shooting range. Some of their
players, she said, still use the two-
handed set shot instead of the more
modern jumper.
“It will be a real physical game,”
she said. “And if it’s a typical game,
then it should be a very fast game al-
Although she said the Aggies have
not seen many scouting reports on
the Red Star team, Hickey said they
will probably run a zone defense as
well as a man-to-man.
But all is not grim for the under
sized Aggies, who finished 16-13 last
year in Hickey’s second season at
A&M.
First, Hickey said, the Yugosla
vians have agreed to play by NCAA
rules, instead of international rules.
Secondly, she said the Red Star
team, which is being sponsored by
Athletes in Action International, is
on a grueling two-week, 11-game
tour of the Midwest.
“One of the main things we’ve got
going for us is that they have a really
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rough road schedule,” Hickey said.
“We’re hoping they’ll be a little bit
pooped.”
For the first time in four years,
the Lady Aggie squad is without the
services of Lisa Langston, A&M’s ca
reer scoring leader and last year’s
team captain.
In order to fill that gap, Hickey is
hoping for an improved team effort,
led by the starting five of Donna
Roper, Evelyn Sanders, Beth Young,
Lisa Jordan and Paula Crutcher. All
five of these players were regulars
on last year’s team.
“Basically, we have four of our
five starters off of last year’s team,”
Hickey said. “Donna Roper (who
participated in last summer’s Olym
pic Festival) has a lot more experi
ence. We’re hoping she can get us
some quick points.”
Unfortunately, though, the Ag
gies have not had a healthy fall.
Hickey said Nette Garrett, a soph
omore who averaged 7.1 points a
game last year, is recovering from
shin surgery and Roper also has
been sick.
“We haven’t been healthy at all,”
she said. “Right now we really need a
Nov. 28-30
Southern Invitational Tournament
Atlanta Ga. (A&M, Georgia Alabama, South Al-
abamaGeorgia State, Florida A&M, Grambling,
University of Alabama-Birmingham)
TBA
Dec. 5-6
CONVERSE LADY AGGIES TOURNAMENT
(A&M, Nebraska, Mississippi College, Lamar)
6,8 p.m.
Dec. 12-13
Dial Classic
Long Beach, Calif. (A&M, Long Beach, Montana
State, Arkansas)
TBA
Dec. 19
LOUISIANA STATE
7:30 p.m.
Dec. 21
NORTHERN ILLINOIS
3 p.m.
Jan. 6
SOUTHERN METHODIST
7:30 p.m.
Jan. 10
Texas Christian
3:30 p.m.
Jan. 13
TEXAS
7:30 p.m.
Jan. 17
TEXAS TECH
7:30 p.m.
Jan. 19
HOUSTON
5:15 p.m.
Jan. 21
Rice
6 p.m.
Jan. 24
Arkansas
4 p.m.
Jan. 27
BAYLOR
7:30 p.m.
Jan. 30
LOUISIANA TECH
7:30 p.m.
Feb. 4
Southern Methodist
5 p.m.
Feb. 7
TEXAS CHRISTIAN
7:30 p.m.
Feb. 10
Texas
7:30 p.m.
Feb. 14
Texas Tech
7:30 p.m.
Feb. 18
Houston
5 p.m.
Feb. 21
RICE
5:15 p.m.
Feb. 24
ARKANSAS
7:30 p.m.
Feb. 28
Baylor
5 p.m.
March 4-7
SWC Tournament
(Dallas — Moody Coliseum)
TBA
HOME GAMES IN CAPS
Dates and times are subject to change
game so the players can see them
selves. After a while, they can’t see
what I’m talking about in practice
unless it happens in a game.”
Before the season ends next
March with the Southwest Confer
ence tournament, however, the Lady
Aggies will have plenty have of
chances to see themselves in action.
“We hope to move in to conten
tion (for the SWC title) this year,”
said Hickey, who spent five years at
Kansas before coming to A&M.
“This year when we talk about win
ning 20 games and the SWC title, I
think we’ll sound much more legiti
mate.
“We’re trying to continue to build
on last year. However, we just found
out we’ve got the 10th toughest
schedule (in the nation). So we’ve
put them in a difficult spot. We hope
it will pay off in March.”
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