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From the Bleachers
BATTALION READERS:
Battalion sports needs your help, Aggies.
We have made a couple of executive decisions
that, we think, will help our section immensely. The
trouble with both is that we can’t do either one our
selves.
That’s where you come in.
Those of you who read our section last spring will
remember the “12th Man Scoreboard.”
It was an effort to do what sports editors at the
Batt had said for years could not be done — effecti
vely cover club and extramural sports.
We want to continue that tradition this fall.
If you are on a team that is having tryouts, compe
titions, or some other function, let us know about it.
WeTl do our best to include it.
We have to emphasize that this is no guarantee of
coverage. It is only a guarantee of an effort on our
part if you provide some effort on your part.
The second decision involves the new feature you
see across the page — “From the Bleachers.”
If you are from a major metropolitan area (mean
ing at least slightly larger than Bryan-College Sta
tion), you may have noticed a letter section that ap
pears in major dailies’ sports sections abou.t once a
week.
We would like to try that here.
Now, I don’t know every one of you out there, but
the ones I do know tenet to have strong opinions
about sports, and lots of them.
And no matter what you may think after reading
our columns, we consider your opinions just as valu
able and important as our own.
Just because you don’t get paid to voice them like
we do doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be allowed to do it
for free.
Give it a shot, Ags. After all, why should you let
Anthony Wilson, opinion page editor and sports
desk defector, get to have all the fun and attention?
Bucky’s still our man
SPORTS EDITOR:
Since Saturday night’s football game against
Nebraska, I can’t count the number of times
I’ve read about or heard someone complaining
about Bucky Richardson’s performance and
the performance of the offense in general. All
of the armchair quarterbacks have been
screaming, “What about Lance and Chris?” In
my opinion, the decision to leave Bucky in the
whole game was based on several things.
First, since Bucky is the best scrambler of the
three, he probably had the best chance of
dodging or outrunning Broderick Thomas and
company on pass plays.
Second, there were several cases of receivers
running the wrong routes. Even John Elway
won’t complete many passes to receivers who
run wrong routes.
Finally, I think the coaches realized that
there wasn’t much anyone could do against the
Nebraska defense in the second half. So, they
opted to stay with the more experienced
Richardson.
The people who wanted a change aren’t
crazy, though.
Lance and Chris are both talented and
deserve some playing time in the near future.
But I still think the man who is going to lead us
to the Cotton Bowl wears #7.
Robert Brown ’89
Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words in length. The editorial staff reserves the right to
edit letters for style and length, but will make every effort to maintain the author’s intent. Each
letter must be signed and must include the classification, address and telephone number of the
writer.
Owners guilty of collusion
to ax baseball free agency
NEW YORK (AP) — For the sec
ond year, baseball owners were
found guilty Wednesday of collusion
to destroy free agency. An arbitrator
said the clubs engaged in a “patent
pattern” of bid-rigging that defied
fair play and a free market.
Damages involving such stars as
Montreal’s Tim Raines, Detroit’s
Jack Morris, Philadelphia’s Lance
Parrish and the Chicago Cubs’
Andre Dawson will be determined
after this season, avoiding any dis
ruption of the pennant races.
Arbitrator George Nicolau, in a
harshly worded 81-page opinion,
found “there was no vestige of a free
market” between the 198b and 1987
seasons. It was replaced, he wrote,
“by a patent pattern of uniform be
havior” in "deliberate contraven
tion” of baseball’s collective bargain
ing agreement.
He found that communications
between clubs were designed to fur
ther the free-agent boycott.
Nicolau’s decision will precipitate
another round of multimillion-dol-
lar damage hearings and will allow
several of the free agents in the case
the opportunity for free agency.
Another arbitrator, Thomas Rob
erts, ruled last Sept. 22 that clubs
conspired against free agents be
tween the 1985 and 1986 seasons.
Nicolau’s opinion was much more
expansive and, among others things,
accused baseball of ficials of making
offers “for public relations pur-
xises” and of having “remarkable
apses of memory” in their testi
mony.
He also found that American
League president Bobby Brown and
two AL club owners pressured Phila
delphia Phillies owner Bill Giles not
to sign Parrish, one of the two pre
mier free agents who switched teams
by taking pay cuts.
Donald Fehr, executive director
of the Major League Baseball Play
ers Association, said “the owners
stand exposed as willing to make a
contract and then deliberately vio
late it, to collude and conspire to vio
late their solemn contractual com
mitments to the players; to avoid
their obligations to the fans to put
the best possible team on the field.”
Barry Rona, executive director of
the owner’s Player Relations Com
mittee, maintained the teams were
innocent.
“Not only was the conduct of the
owners consistent with guidelines es
tablished in the Basic Agreement,”
Rona said, “such conduct, it should
be noted, in no substantive ways dif
fered from that of player agents and
other representatives of the play
ers.”
Economic experts hired by the
union have proposed damages of be
tween $20 million and $30 million in
the first collusion case, according to
information obtained by the Asso
ciated Press. The experts wil argue
the damage in the second case was
between $50 million and $60 mil
lion, according to a source with
knowledge of the reports.
Rona said Wednesday that he and
Fehr have had settlement dis
cussions but would not discuss how
much the owners were willing to
ay. He also said that there is a possi-
ility that the remedy phases of the
1985 and 1986 cases would be con
solidated.
The union filed the second collu
sion grievance on Feb. 18, 1987. Of
the 79 free agents, 37 re-signed with
their former clubs, 21 switched
teams and 21 didn’t return to the
major leagues. The union alleged
that except for Dawson and Parrish,
the free agents who changed clubs
were not wanted by their former
teams.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis
Cardinals acquired utilityman Denny
Walling from Houston Wednesday
and sent veteran right-hander Boh
Forsch to the Astros, who are trying
to stay in the race in the NL West.
Forsch, 38, ranks third in St.
Louis history with 163 career victo
ries, 1,079 strikeouts and 2,658 in
nings pitched. He is 9-4 in 30 games
with a 3.72 E^RA this year as both a
starter and reliever.
“Forsch brings us a quality starter
and a quality major leaguer, and he’s
had a good year,” said Houston
manager Hal Lanier. “The bottom
line is you never have enough pitch-
ing.” •
Lanier said that Forsch could re
ceive his first start in an Astros uni
form as early as Friday, when Hous
ton opens a three-game series at the
Astrodome against the Cardinals.
He also said that how Forsch is
used depends upon whether Mike
Scott is recovered sufficiently from a
hamstring injury. If Scott can pitch,
Forsch’s first start for Houston will
be next Tuesday against the Cincin
nati Reds, the Astros’ manager said.
Houston, which lost 3-1 to the
Chicago Cubs Wednesday, entered
the day trailing NL West-leading Los
Angeles by fi'/a games.
St. Louis general manager Dal
Maxvill said Forsch, a Cardinals
pitcher since 1974, is “a fine gen
tleman and competitor who will al
ways be remembered as one of the
Cardinals’ all-time greats.”
Walling had 81 pinch hits for the
Astros, a franchise record. The total
included a pinch single on Tuesday
night against Chicago and a pinch
double that produced their only run
Wednesday.
“I really enjoyed the last two at-
bats,” said Walling, who hatted .244
in 65 games for Houston. “It (trade)
was a business decision; I under
stand that.”
Forsch, whose approval was re
quired for the trade, compiled a 5-1
record with a 2.25 ERA in six Au
gust starts for St. Louis.
Forsch said he had been contacted
by Maxvill concerning the trade and
had also spoken to Lanier, a former
Cardinals coach, and to Houston
general manager Bill Wood. He said
he surmised from Maxvill that “it
doesn’t sound like I was going to be
here (in St. Louis) next year.”
Walling played in 110 games last
season, batting .283. In 1986, his
best season, he batted .312 with 13
home runs and 58 RBI. He played
mostly at third base a year ago, but
Buddy Bell lias been the starter since
being acquired earlier this season.
Forsch, who was playing under a
one-year contract that paid him
$400,000, said he had mixed feel
ings about the trade.
“It’s not that I didn’t expect it.
Maybe it even took longer than I
thought,” he said. “I would have
liked to have pitched (for the Cardi
nals) some more, but it didn’t look
like it was going to work out.”
Forsch’s accomplishments for St.
Louis included 20-7 record in 1977
and no-hitters in 1977 against the
Philadelphia Phillies and 1983
against the Montreal Expos.
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