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NEW YORK (AP) — The New
lYork Yankees’ chief accountant says
[he wasn’t offended when team
[owner George Steinbrenner called
[him a “young black boy” on national
Itelevision.
Warren Atkinson, 30, said he
[hasn’t experienced any racism from
[Yankees management since he be-
[gan working for the team in 1984.
“I wouldn’t say I have been
[treated differently,” Atkinson told
[the New York Post. “I have no gripes
[over race. I don’t think the Yankees
[are really race oriented.”
On “Face the Nation” Sunday,
Steinbrenner defended his minority
hiring policies by saying that “the
head accountant that I have in my fi
nance department happens to be a
young black boy.”
Steinbrenner later defended his
use of the word “boy,” considered
offensive by many blacks.
“I have been using the term ‘boys
and girls’ since my parents taught
me what it meant on restroom doors
in my grammar school,” he said.
“I’ve always referred to my team as
the ‘varsity’ and to my players and
the younger members of the front
office as my ‘boys and girls’ — and I
ain’t about to change for nobody.”
Atkinson said Steinbrenner fre
quently adopted a fatherly tone and
often called younger men “son.” He
also said the Yankees “seem to be
making some effort to include mi
norities, including myself, in man
agement decisions.”
Appearing with Steinbrenner on
“Face the Nation,” former San Fran
cisco and Cleveland manager Frank
Robinson said there are former
black players “just dying” to get
front-office jobs in baseball.
“If you can give me the names of
three young men ... give them to me
now and I’ll be in touch with them
Monday morning,” Steinbrenner re
plied. Robinson mentioned the
names of former major league play
ers Ray Burris and Don Buford.
Burris, 36, was hired by the Mil
waukee Brewers last April as a spe
cial assistant to General Manager
Harry Dalton. He is also attemping a
comeback as a pitcher with the Class
A Stockton (Calif.) Ports.
Buford, 50, is an assistant baseball
coach at the University of Southern
California.
Cash not the typical
Wimbledon champ
WIMBLEDON, England (AP)
— Pat Cash, a product of the lib
erated 1980s, aoesn’t want to be
compared with the Australians
who built a tennis dynasty in the
’50s, ’60s and early ’70s.
“I don’t think Harry Hopman
would wear a diamond in his
ear,” Cash, who does, said Mon
day in a reference to the late Aus
tralian coach, a tough taskmaster
who developed most of his coun
try’s players 20 and 30 years ago.
“Tennis has become a bit more
professional world. It’s a com
pletely different lifestyle now. It’s
a full-time job,” Cash said.
On Sunday, Cash became the
first Australian man to win
Wimbledon since John New-
combe captured the title in 1971.
Newcombe was the last in a long
string of champions from Down
Under although Ken Rosewall
was the last to make the Wimble
don finals, losing- to American
Jimmy Connors in 1974.
Although Cash said he had no
heroes when he began playing
tennis, the names of Newcombe,
Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Neale
Fraser, Lew Hoad, Norman
Brooks and Ashley Cooper,
among others, gave him a thrill at
Sunday night’s champions din
ner.
Still, he said, things are differ
ent these days.
“I’m in a different era than
those guys,” Cash said Monday, a
day after his 7-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory
over Czechoslovakia’s Ivan Lendl.
“The way I play and the way I live
is different/’
Of his victory at Wimbledon-
,Cash said:
“It really hasn’t sunk in prop
erly yet. It started to sink in last
night when I was sitting at the ta
ble with the trophy right in front
of me. I was very, very proud of
my name being on there with
those great champions.”
Cash said he had received hun
dreds of letters and telegrams
from Australia, including one
from Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
“He said, ‘You did yourself and
your country proud,”’ Cash said.
“He’s a big sports fan and I’ve
seen him at Davis Cup many
times.”
Blue Jays
top Rangers
with six-hitter
TORONTO (AP) — George
Bell and Ernie Whitt hit consec
utive homers in the fifth inning
and Jimmy Key pitched a six-hit
ter for seven innings as the To
ronto Blue Jays snapped an eight-
game losing streak Monday night,
defeating the Texas Rangers 6-4.
Key, 9-5, retired 12 straight
Rangers following Pete Incavig-
lia’s solo homer, his 17th, gave
Texas a 1-0 lead in the second in
ning. Bob Brower broke the
string with a check-swing single in
the sixth.
Toronto scored four times off
Charlie Hough, 9-4, in the second
inning. Fred McGriff, Garth lorg
and Tony Fernandez had RBI
singles and Kelly Gruber had a
sacrifice fly in the inning for To
ronto, which was helped by two
passed balls charged to Texas
catcher Mike Stanley.
The Blue Jays pulled ahead 6-1
in the third when Bell and Whitt
connected for homers. It was the
28th for Bell and the sixth for
Whitt.
Texas chased Key with three
runs in the eighth after he took a
three-hitter into the inning.
Incaviglia doubled, Stanley
walked and Don Slaught doubled
in the first run. When Steve Bue-
chele singled home Stanley to
make it 6-3, Tom Henke replaced
Key and got the last six batters for
his 14th save, although Gino Pe-
tralli made it 6-4 with a sacrifice
fly.
Hough, 39, failed in his at
tempt to become the Rangers’ all-
time leader in victories with 94.
He is tied at 93 with Ferguson
Jenkins.
Thon says future with Houston uncertain
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston As
tros shortstop Dickie Thon, plagued
by vision problems since a 1984
beaning, said Monday he is not re
ady to retire but he doubts he will
ever play for the Astros again.
Thon, who left the team Friday
and returned to Houston because of
his eye problems, said he plans to
continue therapy and hopes for
some improvement.
“I feel sad because I wish I could
have done more for the team,” Thon
said at a news conference at the As
trodome. “I feel a lot for this team. I
feel I’ll always be one of them.”
Although he said he doesn’t know
what is going to happen to his base
ball career, he added, “I don’t want
to say I’m going to retire.”
Thon said continuing to play
baseball with the vision problems
posed a threat to him and he was
afraid he would get hurt again.
In April 1984, Thon was hit by a
pitch in the left eye. He has since
suffered vision problems and has
left the team several times, including
during spring training earlier this
year.
Thon, whose contract expires at
the end of the season, has been
placed on the disqualified list and
the Astros have recalled Bert Pena
from Tucson to take his place.
The 29-year-old Thon said he -
talked to General Manager Dick
Wagner on Monday about his deci
sion to leave the team, but team
spokesman Chuck Pool said he did
not have a statement from Wagner
about the meeting.
When asked if he thought he
would return to the Astros, Thon re
plied, “I don’t think so. The way
(Wagner) has been dealing with my
situation, I won’t be around here
anymore.”
Thon said he plans to stay in
Houston for awhile where he will
talk to his family about his future.
“It’s difficult to walk away from a
game I’d do anything to play,” Thon
said. “I’d do anything to play again.”
Thon said he knows he has the
ability and could play major league
baseball again if his vision improved.
The vision problems have made
playing baseball scary because he
could not see the ball like he once
did, Thon said.
“I don’t know how I did it,” he
said.
In 32 games, Thon was hitting
.212 with one homer and three RBI.
Gibson says increase in homers
related to rule changes in 1969
NEW YORK (AP) — The theories
for the increase in home runs this
season have ranged from the lively
ball to changes in the cosmos. Bob
Gibson has a much simpler explana
tion.
Gibson says too much has been
done in the past 20 years to help the
hitter.
Gibson, a Hall of Earner who won
251 games in a 17-year career with
the St. Louis Cardinals, was a com
petitor to whom every batter was an
enemy. An intense figure on the
mound, he mowed down batters as a
marksman might clay pigeons.
His career reached its zenith in
1968 with a season that may never be
matched.
It included a 1.12 earned run av
erage, the best since the introduction
of the lively ball in 1920. Of his 22
victories that season, 13 were shut
outs. He struck out 268 batters and
completed 28 of 34 starts.
But there were great pitchers just
about everywhere that season. . . .
Juan Marichal, Ferguson Jenkins,
Jim Maloney, Don Drysdale, Tom
i Seaver, Denny McLain, Dave Mc
Nally, Lius Tiant, Mel Stottlemyre,
Catfish Hunter, and Mickey Lolich
to name a few.
In 1968, five of the National
League’s 10 teams hit less than .240
and the Chicago Cubs led the league
with 130 home runs. The league to
tal was 891 in 1968, an average of
1.02 homers per game. The overall
major league batting average was
just .237.
This year, in 480 NL games
through Sunday more than 900
homers had been hit and the aver
age was up to 1.95 per game. Cincin
nati, San Francisco, the Chicago
Cubs and New York Mets have al
ready hit at least 100 homers.
The changes began the next sea
son.
“In 1969 they took five inches off
the mound. It went from 15 inches
to 10 inches and everybody blames it
on me,” Gibson said.
There was also a change in the
strike zone. Instead of a strike being
from the batter’s knees to the top of
the shoulders, it was changed to top
of the knees to the armpits.
That led to higher averages, .248
overall in 1969 and .253 in 1970.
In 1968, four of the 10 teams in
the NL hit 100 or more homers. The
next season with the changes and ex
pansion to 12 teams, nine clubs
reached 100 or more homers, led by
Cincinnati’s 171.
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