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NEW YORK (AP) — Bret Sa-
berhagen of Kansas City, coming
back royally from a season of in
jury and frustration, will lead a
nine-man pitching staff chosen
Thursday by Manager John Mc
Namara for the American
League All-Star team.
The staff has four left-hand
ers, including Bruce Hurst, the
only member of McNamara’s
Boston Red Sox’s staff on the
team. The other left-handers are
Mark Langston of Seattle and re
lievers Dan Plesac of Milwaukee
and Dave Righetti of New York.
The rest of the staff includes
right-handers Jack Morris of De
troit and Mike Witt of California
and relievers Tom Henke of To
ronto and Jay Howell of Oakland.
Saberhagen won the American
Cy Young award in 1985 with a
20-6 record, then slumped to 7-
12 last year with a sore arm. He
was on the disabled list from Aug.
10 to Sept. 1, 1986. This year, Sa
berhagen has won 14 of his first
17 decisions with a 2.56 ERA.
Saberhagen, however, was
Manager Billy Gardner’s sched
uled starter for Saturday at To
ronto, probably leaving the start
ing job to Morris, 12-3 and 3.56.
Morris has said Saberhagen de
serves the startingjob.
“There ain’t no way I should
start,” Morris said last weekend.
“Saberhagen deserves to start.
Fourteen and two (at the time)
and he’s not going to pitch?
C’mon.
“Tell them to change Saberha-
gen’s schedule. Saberhagen is the
best pitcher in the league this
year. No one is supposed to have
a first halflike he’s had.”
McNamara will announce his
starting pitcher and batting order
at a news conference Monday
morning in Oakland.
At the same time, McNamara
also named the reserves that will
fill out the American League
team, which plays the National
League All-Stars Tuesday night
in Oakland.
George Brett of Kansas City
was selected to be the backup
third baseman, behind Boston’s
Wade Boggs. This will be Brett’s
12th consecutive All-Star game,
making him the senior member
on either squad. Brett’s previous
11 All-Star selections were by fan
vote.
Dave Winfield of New York,
who was elected to start in the
outfield, has been selected to 11
All-Star teams.
Rookie Mark McGwire, who
led the major leagtxes with 31
homers at the time of his selec
tion, and Pat Tabler of the Cleve
land Indians were selected at first
base to play behind Don Mat
tingly of New York, who was
elected in fan balloting to start.
Lou Whitaker of Detroit will
back up starter Willie Randolph
of New York at second base, and
McNamara chose Alan Trammell
of Detroit and Tony Fernandez
of Toronto to spell Cal Ripken Jr.
of Baltimore at shortstop.
Kirby Puckett of Minnesota,
Larry Parrish of Texas, Harold
Baines of the White Sox and
Dwight Evans of Boston were the
backup outfielders. The elected
starters were George Bell of To
ronto, Rickey Henderson of the
Yankees and Winfield.
Matt Nokes of Detroit, another
rookie, was selected as a reserve
catcher.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rick Sut
cliffe of the Chicago Cubs, the
National League’s only 11-game
winner, heads the eight-man NL
pitching staff named Thursday
for major league baseball’s All-
Star game by Manager Davey
Johnson.
Sutcliffe, who was 11-4 with a
3.54 earned run average going
into Thursday afternoon’s with
Los Angeles, will be joined by 10-
game winners Mike Scott of
Houston and Orel Hershiser of
Los Angeles, 9-game winner Sid
Fernandez of the New York Mets
and Rick Reuschel of Pittsburgh,
who has a 7-4 record and leads
the league with a 2.32 ERA.
The other three pitchers are
relievers — Steve Bedrosian of
Philadelphia, who set a major-
league record with 13 saves in 13
straight relief appearances. Lee
Smith of Chicago and John
Franco of Cincinnati. Fernandez
and Franco are the only left
handers on the staff.
Omitted from the team was an
other 10-game winner, Neal
Heaton of Montreal; Terry Leach
of Johnson’s own Mets, who is 8-0
with a 2.08 ERA in a mixture of
starting and relief roles and
Houston reliever Dave Smith,
who has an ERA of 0.52 with 15
saves and has allowed just 11 hits
in 34% innings.
Johnson also named backups
for the eight starters, who were
elected by vote of the fans.
They include catchers Ozzie
Virgil of Atlanta and Bo Diaz of
Cincinnati; first baseman Keith
Hernandez of the Mets; second
baseman Juan Samuel of Phila
delphia; shortstop Hubie Brooks
of Montreal and third baseman
Tim Wallach, also of the Expos.
The six backup outfielders are
Pedro Guerrero of Los Angeles,
Tony Gwynn of San Diego, Jef
frey Leonard of San Francisco,
Willie McGee of St. Louis, Dale
Murphy of Atlanta and Tim
Raines of Montreal.
None of the pitchers has been
on more than one previous All-
Star roster. It will be the first ap
pearance for Bedrosian and
Hershiser, the second for the
rest.
Johnson has not indicated who
his starting pitcher will be for the
game to be played next Tuesday
in Oakland, Calif.
But Sutcliffe, who is not sched
uled for any more starts before
the All-Star game, is one possibil
ity and Scott, last year’s Cy Young
Award winner, who is scheduled
to start Friday against the Mets, is
another.
The starters for the NL, an
nounced Wednesday, include
catcher Gary Carter of 1 New York,
first baseman Jack Clark of St.
Louis; second baseman Ryne
Sandberg of Chicago, currently
on the disabled list; shortstop Oz
zie Smith of the Cardinals; third
baseman Mike Schmidt of the
Phillies and outfielders Eric Davis
of Cincinnati, Darryl Strawberry
of the Mets and Andre Dawson of
the Cubs.
Every team is required to have
at least one player on the All-Star
team.
The Mets and Cubs have the
most players on the 28-man ros
ter, with four each. The Reds, Ex
pos, Cards and Phillies have three
each; the Dodgers and Braves
two and San Diego, San Fran
cisco, Pittsburgh and Houston
one.
L’s Giamatti says severe steps
will be taken to halt player fights
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NEW YORK (AP) — National
President Bart Giamatti
all teams in the league
hursday that he will take severe
leasures, including suspensions,
Igainst players involved in “acts
clearly intended to maim or injure
another player.”
I Reacting to the rash of beanball
incidents in both leagues, Giamatti
ent a message to all National
eague team presidents, general
aanagers and managers with the
arning.
“Any act that in my opinion is in-
endeu to cause severe physical
larm to an opposing player . . . will
icnceforth result in the most severe
icnalties, possibly including suspen-
|Sion,” he said.
I Among those acts, Giamatti listed
g to ®|§f‘throwing intentionally at a batter’s
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The Royals-Indians fight began in
Cleveland when Kansas City pitcher
Danny Jackson threw two pitches
near Brett Butler’s head. The two
teams also fought over an alleged
beanball Tuesday night, and there
were charges of beanballs in Monday
night’s game — all in response to
home runs.
“The game of baseball is, of
course, a physical one, highly com
petitive, involving contact,Giamatti
said in his communique. “It must be
played hard and aggressively. It
must also remain baseball ana not
become something else.
“Beanballs and similar acts are
highly unsportsmanlike,” he said.
“Acts clearly intended to maim of in
jure another player have no place in
a profession that wishes to maintain
its dignity and its credibility with the
general public,” Giamatti said.
head, fighting on the field, or sliding
with a ‘rolling block.’”
On Tuesday, Andre Dawson of
the Chicago Cubs was hit in the face
by a pitch from Eric Show of the San
Diego Padres, resulting in a bench
clearing brawl and a succession of
brushback incidents. Five Cubs play
ers, Manager Gene Michael and
bullpen coach Johnny Oates all
eventually were ejected from the
game.
Dawson took 24 stitches around
his mouth and sustained a contusion
of his left cheekbone. He sat out
Wednesday’s game with a swollen
face.
Show said the beaning was unin
tentional.
In the American League, the Kan
sas City Royals and Cleveland Indi
ans got into their second fight in two
nights over beanballs Wednesday.
Ueberroth says baseball will take lead
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NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
pledged on Thursday that baseball
would surpass the other major
sports in hiring blacks and other mi-
tority grf ip member 1 ' .gh-level
nff-the-field jobs.
“Baseball will get its job done,”
eberroth said at a joint news con
ference at the NAACP convention
ith Benjamin Hooks, the civil
ights group’s executive director.
| “It’s our job to say ‘look at us.
'We’re ahead of the law of the land
and ahead of everyone else.’”
Hooks said that he. has met with
he owners of more than 20 of the 26
earns, although he acknowledged
hat there had been some resistance
from three, who he did not name,
e said later that they agreed to
eet with him.
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world out there,” Ueberroth said.
“There is some resistance. It’s my job
to intervene when it’s proper.”
Hooks has been meeting with the
commissioner’s of all the major
sports in an effort to open up off-
the-field jobs for blacks.
But baseball remains in the most
sensitive situation because of the re
marks in April by A1 Campanis, then
the vice-president of the Los An
geles Dodgers, who said on ABC-
TV’s “Nightline” that blacks lacked
“the necessities” for front-office
jobs. Campanis was forced to resign
shortly afterwards.
Both Ueberroth and Hooks noted
that even before Campanis’ remarks,
the commissioner was interested in
enhancing the off-the-field role of
blacks. Hooks noted that last Decem
ber, Ueberroth proposed celebrat
ing this year as the 40th anniversary
of Jackie Robinson’s becoming the
first black player in baseball.
Ueberroth acknowledged that the
nut 'her of ,r We jobs is limited
He said the 2b teams average 110
employees among them, about 90 of
those in the non-baseball category
ranging from secretary to attorney.
He said his office would make sure
that a representative number of
blacks and Hispanics would fill jobs
in both those categories in the next
few years.
denied suggestions
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Ueberroth
that some teams have declined to
fire losing managers this season be
cause they are afraid they would be
pressured into naming blacks to suc
ceed them.
Dave Smith
gets snubbed
from All-Stars
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s
Dave Smith, one of the most domi
nant relievers in the majors this sea
son, said he doesn’t know why he
was left off the National League All-
Star team.
“Unless you’re voted in by the
fans, you can never be sure,” Smith
said Thursday, soon after the NL’s
eight-man pitching staff was an
nounced.
Smith has 15 saves and a 0.52
earned run average without any vic
tories or losses. In 34% innings, he
has allowed just two runs on 11 hits,
and has struck out 48.
“I’m not going to put up any bet
ter numbers than I have,” Smith
said. “I don’t think I can do any bet
ter.”
“Not everybody is going to make
the All-Star team. A lot of players
are going to be disappointed this
year.”
New York Mets Manager and NL
President A. Barlett Giamatti an
nounced the pitching staff that in
cluded relievers Steve Bedrosian of
Philadelphia, John Franco of Cincin
nati and Lee Smith of Chicago.
“He (Dave Smith) should be on it.
He deserves it, but so does Lee
Smith and Bedrosian, and Franco
has a couple mo^ saves ar i about
the same ERA,” Johnson said.
Bedrosian, who set a major-league
record earlier this season with saves
in 13 straight appearances, is 3-2
with 23 saves and a 2.89 ERA.
Franco is 5-3 with 17 saves and a
1.52 ERA and Lee Smith is 2-5 with
22 saves and a 2.94 ERA. Bedrosian
and both Smiths are right-handers
and Franco is left-handed.
Dave Smith tried to downplay his
disappointment and said he was fo
cusing on the Astros’ four games
against Johnson’s Mets that precede
the All-Star break.
Alford's shot in NBA will be as backup
,ccu|>2® INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Steve
ing JBUford, who made his reputation as
tne): a shooter, has been told he’ll likely
2 who] .'Spend most of his first two years in
Into#/. the NBA on the bench and then be-
. the)? i Com e the Dallas Mavericks’ backup
atth^ jtpoint guard.
oS ekii» Alford, a two-time All-American
ofoJwvho led Indiana to the NCAA
jctffchampionship last spring, was a sec
ond-round draft pick by Dallas.
“Steve would do well to look at
films of (Boston’s Jerry) Sichting and
(San Antonio’s Jon) Sundvold if he’s
looking for role models,” said Rick
"und, the Mavericks’ vice president
or basketball operations.
“Those are the kinds of players at
east that he should be trying to em
ulate. Neither one of them are your
classic point guards, but they’ve ac
cepted a kind of hybrid role where
they run the offense and still get
some shots.”
Sund told Len Pasquarelli of the
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel that Al
ford will likely see little playing time
his rookie year. He’ll play more his
second year, but wont see regular
action until the 1989-90 season,
when he should be prepared to be
the backup point guard.
Veteran Brad Davis now is the
backup to starter Derek Harper.
“Since I’m pretty much convinced
that he’s accepted this change men
tally, I’ve told Steve he’s now got to
accept it physically, too,” Sund said.
“More than anything else, I want
him handling the ball. I know he can
shoot it.
“Basically, I told him, ‘Steve, I
don’t care where you’re playing the
YMCA, on a playground, in a
pickup £ame I want you bringing
the ball up the floor.’ I don’t care if
he has to steal it from his own team
mate, that’s what I want him to do.”
Under Indiana’s motion offense,
Alford mostly ran his defender into
a bigger body, then popped out for a
jump shot. He rarely created his own
shots and averaged fewer than five
trips a game to the foul line.
As a point guard in the NBA, he’ll
be expected to create offensive op
portunities for the other players on
the floor and pass the ball, some
thing he didn’t always do well at IU,
where he averaged only 3.1 assists a
game in four years.
“I honestly think he’s been under
rated in some ways,” Sund said.
“In person, you get so caught up,
kind of mesmerized actually, in
watching him do the things he does
well, like shooting the ball, that you
tend not to concentrate on the other
aspects of his game. Then, you go
home and your perception is that he
can’t do the other things because you
don’t remember him doing them.
“I think he’s got the potential to
make the transition, mostly because
he’s got a mental toughness about
him that’s just tremendous.”
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