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Thursday, November 16,1989
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They may be free
as a bird, but they
have a lot to lose
Deadlines, deadlines.
Quite frankly, I dig ’em.
If it weren’t for deadlines, not only
would I never get anything done around
here, but my body would be deprived of
a great deal of stress and nervous energy
that is normally reserved for diet pill
abusers.
But the deadline that caught my
attention most this week was one that
expired Monday.
Yes, by Monday 90 major league
baseball players (a new record) had filed
for free agency.
Ninety! Ninety ballplayers feel they
need to seek a better deal if their present
clubs don’t cough up enough cash.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation of general managers (and
managers) turn their lonely eyes to you.
Can you imagine how a guy like Tony
LaRussa must feel?
He’s poised at the helm of a club that
has appeared in back-to-back World
Series, one that steamrollered the Giants
in the last one but has more free agents
than any team in the big leagues.
Storm Davis, Dave Parker and (feel
LaRussa shudder) Rickey Henderson
are among the seven from Oakland that
have filed.
Can you imagine the last Series
without Rickey Henderson? And can the
A’s imagine themselves in another Series
without him?
But, in your wildest imagination did
you or the A’s ever think you’d see him
in pinstripes again?
That’s right, the Yankees, the same
team he was paroled from in the middle
of last season, is the team in hottest
pursuit of Henderson.
That’s what confuses me about free
agency. Why would Henderson want to
return to a team he.cquldn’t leave
quickly enough? Why would he want to
See Free Agents/Page 11
KC’s Saberhagen nabs Cy No. 2
World Series MVP Stewart snubbed again after 20-win year
NEW YORK (AP) — Bret Saberhagen of
the Kansas City Royals won his second Cy
Young Award in four years on Wednesday,
beating Oakland’s Dave Stewart with ease.
Saberhagen, a 25-year-old right-hander
who went 23-6, got 27 of 28 first-place votes
from a panel of the Baseball Writers Asso
ciation of America and one second for 138
points.
Stewart, the Most Valuable Player of the
World Series, got the other first-place vote,
24 seconds and three thirds for 80 points.
Mike Moore, his teammate on the World
Series champion Oakland Athletics, was
third with 10 points, followed by Bert Blyle-
ven of California with nine and Nolan Ryan
of Texas with five.
Jeff Ballard of Baltimore, Dennis
Eckersley of Oakland and Gregg Olson of
Baltimore, the AL Rookie of the Year, got
three points each and Jeff Russell of Texas
got one.
Saberhagen, who won the Cy Young in
1985, led the majors in victories, earned-
run average (2.16), winning percentage
(.793), complete games (12) and innings
(262 1-3). He threw four shutouts, three
three-hitters and two four-hitters.
Kansas City was 29-6 in his starts and he
beat every club in the league at least once.
But perhaps his most impressive statistic
was tnat he won 20 of his final 22 decisions.
He was 6-1 in September with a 0.98 ERA.
He allowed eight runs in his last 80 innings
and had a streak of 31 consecutive innings
without an earned run.
He allowed more than three earned runs
just three times in 35 starts and not once in
his final 14. In his six losses, the Royals
were shut out three times and scored one
run twice.
Saberhagen is 92-61 in six seasons with
Kansas City. He was 20-6 in 1985, then
went on two pitch two complete games as
the Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals in
the World Series.
He is the fourth pitcher to win the AL Cy
Young Award more than once. Denny Mc
Lain (1968-69), Jim Palmer (1973-75-76)
and Roger Clemens (1986-87) did it pre
viously. Saberhagen has lowest ERA for an
AL Cy Young winner since Palmer 1975,
when Palmer’s ERA was 2.09.
Stewart failed to win the Cy Young de
spite winning 20 games for the third con
secutive season. He was 21-9 this year and
lost to Saberhagen. Last year he was 21-12
and lost to Frank Viola, then of the Minne
sota Twins.
Four West German cities give Berlin
preference in race for 2004 Olympics
FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) —
Four West German sites are willing to drop
out of the running for the 2004 Olympics to
clear the way for a bid by East and West
Berlin, a West German official said
Wednesday.
Among the West German sites that had
expressed interest in holding the games
were Frankfurt, Hamburg, the Ruhr valley
and Stuttgart.
“All have said they would drop out of
contention if Berlin applies to host the
Olympics,” said Wolfram Kratzat, Frank
furt’s top Olympics project director.
Manfred Seeger, West Germany’s na
tional Olympic Committee spokesman, said
East Germany’s lifting of travel restrictions
made a Berlin Games a possibility.
“The main problem was the (Berlin)
Wall, and that problem is now gone,”
Seeger said. “But we must still wait and see
how the situation develops in the German
Democratic Republic (East Germany).”
East German officials, in a dramatic
move permitting its citizens freedom of
travel to the West on Nov. 9, opened the
Berlin Wall and sections of border barriers
to West Germany.
The unexpected development in rela
tions between the two German states has
spurred speculation about holding the 2004
Olympics in Berlin.
Willie Daume, National Olympic Com
mittee president, said the signs were en
couraging.
“These plans have been around for a
long time,” Daume said. “Even (former)
U.S. President (Ronald) Reagan said that
Berlin should hold the Olympics. The
chances are better now after all that has
happened.”
But Daume, who has been West Ger
many’s Olympic Committee president since
1961 and has been a longtime proponent of
holding the Olympics in Berlin, cautioned
against hurried optimism. “A lot can hap
pen in the next 15 years,” he said.
Asked about the prospects of West Ger
many and East Germany forming a single
German Olympic team, Daume said: “That
is absolutely not a theme because of political
developments since 1946. There are now
two separate Germanys.”
Holding the Games in Berlin also has the
backing of International Olympic Commit
tee president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
Samaranch was quoted in the French
sports daily L’Equipe Wednesday as saying
that for Berlin to host the Games “is no
longer a utopian ideal.”
“This ides (of Berlin) is appealing be
cause it is a symbol of peace even if between
now and then there are many changes in
the present day situation,” L’Equipe quoted
Samaranch as saying.
If the Games are to be held in Berlin, it
would take the agreement of both East Ber
lin and West Berlin officials to make it
work.
West Berlin Mayor Walter Momper’s
Olympic advisor, Ulrich Eggestein, said the
Games would be discussed soon by Momper
and East Germany’s new premier, Hans
Modrow.
Berlin hosted the Olympics in 1936,
when Jesse Owens of the United States won
four gold medals in the face of Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler’s “Aryan” theories on white su
premacy.
Owens, a black, set world records in the
broad jump (now the long jump) and the
200-meter dash and tied the world record
in the 100 meters. His fourth gold medal
came in the 400-meter relay.
Timberwolves
muzzled by
San Antonio
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Frank
Briekowski, Vernon Maxwell and Willie
Anderson sparked a 14-3 surge early in
the fourth quarter Wednesday night as
the San Antonio Spurs rallied from
three quarters of lethargy for an 86-76
NBA victory over the Minnesota Tim
berwolves.
The Spurs barely made it past their
lowest-scoring game ever, a 78-point
showing 16 years ago when they were in
the American Basketball Association.
It was the low game for the expansion
Timberwolves by seven points.
San Antonio trailed 60-59 with 11:29
to play before Brickowski made a 15-
foot jumper and dunked in a rebound to
put the Spurs ahead for good, 63-60.
After Sidney Lowe’s jumper pulled
Minnesota within one, the Timberwolves
missed 12 straight shots as the Spurs
built a 73-63 lead. Maxwell hit a reverse
SAN ANTONIO
layup and assisted on baskets by David
Robinson and Anderson, who scored the
last six points of the spurt.
Losing 78-68 with two minutes left,
Minnesota scored six straight points. But
Anderson’s layup and Terry Cummings’
slam quashed the Wolves’ rally.
Cummings led San Antonio with 22
points, and Anderson added 16. Tony
Campbell and Sam Mitchell had 23 each
for the Timberwolves.
The first half featured terrible shoot
ing, poor passing and generally haggard
play by both teams. San Antonio, which
led 40-39 at halftime, shot 43 percent
and committed 10 turnovers. Minnesota
missed two-thirds of its shots and had 11
giveaways.
Play didn’t improve in the third quar
ter, after which Minnesota led 58-57 de
spite 41 percent shooting and four turn
overs. San Antonio shot 44 percent and
committed seven turnovers.
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