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tarters set for All-Star contest
Yankees place four members on first squad
Knicks name Bianchi
as general manager
1 VI NEW YORK (AP) — The selec-
J tion of Dave Winfield, Don Mat-
Bhgly, Willie Randolph and Rickey
iewed siJfenderson gave the New York Yan-
ot of kees half of the starting positions
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lly and pcagtie All-Star team in results of
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National League.
The defending world champion
Mets, who have been trailing in the
NL East race most of the season, will
be represented among the starters
by catcher Gary Carter and out
fielder Darryl Strawberry. The St.
Louis Cardinals, with a solid lead in
the NL East, also will have two start
ers — Smith and first baseman Jack
Clark.
Picked as the other infield starters
in the National League were Chi
cago Cubs second basemen Ryne
Sandberg and third baseman Mike
Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Sandberg, out with an ankle injury,
will be unable to play.
Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson,
signed by Chicago as a free agent
this season, was picked for a starting
spot in the outfield along with Straw
berry and Eric Davis of the Cincin
nati Reds.
Wade Boggs of the Boston Red
Sox, the American League’s leading
hitter at .382, drew the most votes in
iamatti: home run upsurge
nay cause more beanballs
ll*.l CHICAGO (AP) — The upsurge
Jllf home runs is at least partially re-
nsible for an increase in bean-
11s this season, National League
esident A. Bartlett Giamatti said
tednesday.
Giamatti said the number of play-
Is being hit by pitches “is very wor-
poine because baseball degenerates
when this happens.”
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resulted in a brawl and seven
sctions.
“I have not seen a tape of the epi-
de, nor have I gotten a written re-
)rt from the umpires,” Giamatti
id in withholding comment on the
cident.
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71ann j c if )n is not a good one. I think I’ll be
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an wassp e c i u bs, then, ultimately, to the
f und L er media.”
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itches thrown with the intent to hit
alters.
“The brushback pitch is designed
not to hit a batter and is a part of the
game. And when you have all the al
legations about lively balls and the
number of home runs, you have a
certain number of pitchers believing
they’ve got to brush people back and
own the plate.
“I understand that, but the mar
gin between a pitch that is a brush-
back and a pitch that hits somebody
is slight.”
Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson,
who was hit in the face by a pitch
from Eric Show in Tuesday’s game,
arrived at Wrigley Field Wednesday
with the left side of his face swollen.
Dawson had 24 stiches around the
mouth and was not in the lineup for
the game against the Padres.
The Cubs won 12-8 for a sweep of
the three-game series. There were
no further incidents in the third
game.
Show, who hit Dawson in the third
inning of the Cubs’ 7-5 victory, re
mained at the team’s hotel.
“1 told him not to come to the
park,” Padre Manager Larry Bowa
said. “There’s no need for him to
come out and have to go through all
of this.”
Both Bowa and Cub Manager
Gene Michael were issued a pre
game warning by umpire John
Kibler, which meant the first pitcher
to throw at a batter would be ejected
along with his manager.
“All I tell the players under the
circumstances is ‘A warning has been
issued,’ and they take it from there,”
Michael said.
Bowa, in his first year as a man
ager, said this is the first time he has
been warned before the start of the
game.
Dawson had homered off Show in
the first inning of Tuesday’s game.
It was his 24th homer of the year
and his seventh against the Padres.
Nevertheless, Bowa and Show
both insisted the beaning was unin
tentional.
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eague and beat out George
Brett of the Kansas City Royals for
the starting third base job. Brett had
started the last 11 All-Star games.
Boggs drew 1,529,819 to Brett’s
699,970.
The struggling Baltimore Orioles
placed catcher Terry Kennedy and
shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. on the start
ing team.
In the AL outfield with Winfield
and Henderson will be George Bell
of the Toronto Blue Jays.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New
York Knicks, after a 12-week search,
named A1 Bianchi their general
manager Wednesday and said they
should have a head coach within two
weeks.
The former Phoenix assistant
coach replaces Scotty Stirling, who
was fired along with Coach Bob Hill
on April 20 after the Knicks finished
the regular season with a 24-58 re
cord. It was the third year in a row
that the Knicks missed the playoffs.
“Sure, we want to make the play
offs,” Bianchi said at a news confer-
NBA enters into agreement
on minority job positions
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA
and NAACP announced a joint
agreement Wednesday aimed at
increasing minority off-the-court
employment in the league.
NAACP Executive Director Ben
jamin Hooks said similar
agreements could follow with
baseball and football.
Although the agreement con
tained no formal guidelines for
accomplishing its purpose, NBA
Commissioner David Stern said:
“This is a mandate that is not be
ing forced on the teams, but one
I’m sure they will welcome.”
Hooks and Stern said no per
centage goals had been set. They
said they would begin meetings
immediately with as many NBA
teams as possible. Hooks said lo
cal NAACP branches already had
been in touch with 12 NBA
teams, 20 major league baseball
clubs and 15 NFL teams.
“I know about goals and
timetables, believe me,” Hooks
said, “but we will deal with the in
dividual teams on that. If I say
we’re going to get two jobs, and
we only get one, then I’ll be pillo
ried.”
“We don’t want to play a num
bers game,” Stern said at a news
conference with Hooks.
Hooks said he had met with
baseball Commissioner Peter Ue
berroth, and they had
agreements with about six major
league teams. Those agreements
have yet to be signed by the
NAACP because they have not
been reviewed.
“I’ll be in touch with Pete Ro-
zelle and we’ll work out some
thing in the next few days,”
Hooks said about the NFL com
missioner.
“I’m not sure our agreements
with baseball and football will be
the same as basketball, but I am
sure they are willing to work with
us,” Hooks said.
While 75 percent of all NBA
players are black, Stern said only
30 percent of office positions are
occupied by blacks. There are
four black NBA coaches and two
black general managers.
ence at Madison Square Garden.
“But we also want a (championship)
ring. We want to win it all.”
Bianchi, 55, and Knicks President
Richard Evans said a new coach
should be named in the next 10 days
to two weeks. Evans said the list of
candidates has been narrowed to
three or four, but he would not re
veal any names.
“The only thing I can say is that
we will get the best man possible,”
Evans said.
Former Dallas Coach Dick Motta
and North Carolina State Coach Jim
Valvano are believed to be two of the
remaining candidates. The Knicks
recently tried to hire Boston assis
tant coach Jimmy Rodgers, but ne
gotiations stopped when the Celtics
demanded a top draft pick as com
pensation.
Bianchi, who will play a major role
in selecting the new coach, said he
would like a coach who emphasizes
the fast break.
“If you look around the league to
day, you see that most successful
teams like to run,” said Bianchi, who
played 10 years in the NBA and
coached in Phoenix from 1976 until
last month.
Bianchi said the Knicks’ biggest
weaknesses are rebounding and
playmaking. The Knicks had those
areas in mind last month when they
picked point guard Mark Jackson of
St. John’s and power forward Ron
Moore of West Virginia State as
their top two selections in the NBA
draft.
One of the Knicks problems last
season was the failure of 7-footers
Patrick Ewing and Bill Cartwright to
form an effective combination in the
frontcourt. But Bianchi said he is
not anxious to break up the “Twin
Towers” by trading Cartwright, a
move often suggested by the New
York press.
“Big guys are at a premium in the
NBA, especially ones who can
score,” he said. “They’re the home
run hitters. If you’re going to trade
one of them, you better get some
thing very good in exchange.”
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