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Clay Rasmussen
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11-Star matchup could mirror
1990 baseball season’s highlights
CHICAGO (AP) — So if the first
, , na\i of the season is any indication,
( what will the All-Star Game bring?
Maybe a no-hitter, for starters.
Randy Johnson, who pitched one
f six no-nos in the majors this year,
/ill be at Wrigley Field on Tuesday
tight. But the fewest hits a team has
ver gotten in All-Star play is three,
ast done in 1968 when Don
rysdale, Juan Marichal, Steve Carl-
on, Tom Sea ver, Ron Reed and
erry Koosman held the Americans
focheck. A
Or, maybe a lot of hjyme runs.
Home runs are up in both leagues
so far, especially in the National.
Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson
of the Chicago Cubs each have a
i chance to become the first players to
It| homer in their own park at an All-
JV Star Game since 1972 when Hank
J Aaron did it in Atlanta.
d Perhaps a fight, instigated by a
brushback pitch. There have been a
lot of those this year, but there hasn’t
ever been a basebrawl at the All-Star
Game — although Rickey Hender
son did stare at Nolan Ryan after
getting knocked down in the 1985
event.
There’s always a chance for an in
jury. Orel Hershiser, Rick Reuschel
and Glenn Davis are among several
All-Stars last year who have been
hurt this season, and Ted Williams,
Dizzy Dean and Harmon Killebrew
are among the Hall of Famers have
been injured in All-Star Games.
How about something surprising?
On opening day, few would’ve
thought the Chicago White Sox or
Cecil Fielder would’ve been doing so
well. Baltimore reliever Gregg Olson
was a good bet to do well, but not At
lanta rookie catcher Greg Olson —
maybe they’ll face each other.
Some New York-style commotion
might fit in nicely. Already man
agers Davey Johnson of the Mets
and Bucky Dent of the Yankees have
been fired, and Yankees owner
George Steinbrenner’s meetings
with Commissioner Fay Vincent
have been the talk of every town.
“That is not baseball,” Vincent re
minded everyone this week, trying
to keep the focus on the field.
And that’s where it will be when
the Americans, hoping for their first
three-game winning streak since
1946-49, attempt to dent the Nation
als’ 37-22 edge.
At least for a day, off-the-field
matters won’t matter. No one will
care about Jose Canseco getting $23
million; the fans will only wonder
whether he can get around on Rob
Dibble’s fastball.
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There won’t be any comment
when Gal Ripken Jr. doesn’t play ev
ery inning. Seeing Alan Trammell
replace him at shortstop will be fine.
Of course, even at the All-Star
break, there’s bound to be trade talk
— about the deals that were made
and the ones that might be, like the
hot Mike Marshall-to-the-Orioles ru-
How interesting now that John
Franco and Randy Myers are on the
same team for one game and that
Cleveland’s Sandy Alomar Jr. will be
facing his brother and former team
mate, San Diego second baseman
Roberto.
LSU freshman shuns pros,seeks degree instead
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Had he
been so inclined, Shaquille O’Neal of
San Antonio could have been count
ing his money now and thinking up
ways to spend it.
Instead, he’s sweating out the hot
test part of the summer in an aging,
stuffy fieldhouse just for the fun of
At 18, O’Neal is the nation’s hot
test pro basketball prospect. Al
though the Louisiana State center
tias only one year of college behind
lim, many think he would have been
he first pick in last month’s NBA
raft.
But O’Neal insists he never gave
( the pros a second thought this year.
And he’s equally insistent about re-
tnaining at LSU for four years.
“Most players come out because
jheir family has financial problems,”
j&aid O’Neal, playing for the South at
J the U.S. Olympic Festival. “My fam-
ily is doing real fine. We don’t have
any problems. So I want to stay in
school and get my degree.”
| The pros have been drooling over
Vl1 , O’Neal since he left high school.
C jj He’s a remarkable physical specimen
- 7-foot-1 and 285 pounds, power-
ul yet agile. Seconds after one of his
hunderous, two-handed dunks, he’s
uick enough to be in position at the
ackof the press.
As a freshman, O’Neal was sixth
nationally in blocked shots (3.6),
ninth in rebounds (12.0) and aver
aged 13.9 points a game while shoot
ing 57.3 percent. He blocked 12
shots in one game and a set a school
record for blocked shots in a season
with 115.
And the scary thing, says LSU
coach Dale Brown, is that O’Neal is
just scratching the surface.
“Shack’s got unlimited ability,”
said Brown, coach of the South.
“This may sound self-serving, but
Shack has a wonderful talent, atti
tude and mentality. He’s not the
kind who’s going to be a prima
donna and stop.”
For his part, O’Neal says he
doesn’t plan to stop.
“I’m the kind of player that gets
better, not worse,” he said. “If I keep
working hard and keep practicing,
the best will come later.
“I don’t have any trouble working
out on my own and pushing myself.
I just say to myself T want to be the
best, I want to sign the biggest NBA
contract.’ I just work on things I
have to work on.”
That work ethic comes from
growing up in a military family.
O’Neal’s father is an Army drill ser
geant and his word around the
house is final.
“Back when I was 8, 9 and 10,
growing up in Newark (N.J.), my fa
ther used to tell me not to do things
and don’t ask why,” O’Neal said.
“He’d say don’t go to school and act
like a clown.
“Sometimes, I’d go act like a clown
because I wanted to make a girl
laugh. If my father would come and
catch me, he used to tear me up —
spank me. He told me to do some
thing and I didn’t do it, so I got pun
ished for it.”
TANK MCNAMARA
Soccer celebration
triggers violence
EAST BERLIN (AP) — A day af
ter cheering their soccer team to vic
tory in the World Cup, Germans
woke up Monday to hear of deaths,
broken glass and looted shops, the
aftermath of extremist rioting in
both German states.
Four people were killed and hun
dreds hurt when jubilant street cele
brations turned reckless and violent
following West Germany’s 1-0 vic
tory over Argentina in Rome on
Sunday.
Bands of neo-Nazi skinheads and
other hooligans brawled with police
in East Berlin and in the West Ger
man cities of Hamburg and Biele
feld.
Foreigners were singled out for
attacks, and stores were looted and
vandalized nationwide, police said.
More than 120 people were ar
rested and at least 60 police officers
were among the injured.
The celebration was far more vio
lent and nationalistic than the good-
natured euphoria that followed
%yest Germany’s last cup
championship in 1974.
It was also the first shared by East
Germany, which is on the threshold
of unifying with its Western neigh
bor and rooted strongly for its
neighboring team.
“I was astonished by what had
happened last night,” said Detlev
Liepmann, a sociologist at West Ber
lin’s Free University. “There is a spe
cial group at the right side of our
spectrum who are searching for any
occasion to do these sort of things.”
About 20,000 cheering, flag-wav
ing fans greeted the West German
soccer team when it returned to
Frankfurt Monday after taking the
championship.
The peaceful display of pride was
in sharp contrast to the ugly scenes
of random violence that broke out
the night before and lasted into the
morning.
Hundreds of thousands of people
poured into the streets, fireworks
streaked the skies over several cities
and a concert^ of honking horns
lasted into the morning.
But in East Berlin, about 5,000
youths watching the game on a huge
television screen across from the
Parliament building began hurling
bottles and demolishing concession
stands when it ended.
A group of 500 neo-Nazis shout
ing epithets against foreigners ram
paged on the main square, Alexan-
derplatz, chasing Vietnamese
workers and ransacking a bar fre
quented by homosexuals, police and
witnesses said.
A group of about 200 skinheads
later tried to attack a house occupied
by a leftist group, and fought
pitched battles with police.
Twelve were arrested and three
people were seriously hurt, police
said.
In Hamburg, about 400 hooligans
and skinheads clashed with police
with rocks and bottles. Fifty-four po
lice officers were injured and 88
people were arrested, according to
police.
Pistons’ Rodman lauds
inmates at commencement
MILAN, Mich. (AP) — No robe.
No pomp and no circumstance. Den
nis Rodman came to the Milan Fed
eral Prison dressed more for a
pickup basketball game than a com
mencement speech.
But Rodman, the NBA’s De
fensive Player of the Year, had
words for the 36 inmates receiving
associate degrees and 21 inmates re
ceiving bachelor degrees through
Cleary College’s Prison Extension
Program.
“You can’t quit,” Rodman told the
graduates, other inmates, Cleary
“T
I his world needs you,
they don’t need you six feet
under.
—Dennis Rodman,
Detroit Piston star
College faculty and about 40 visitors
and guests at the June 20 com
mencement.
“There is no place like the outside
world. You have to realize that. You
are lucky to have people here to help
you and steer you in the right direc
tion.”
The 57 graduates were the most
receiving post-secondary degrees at
one time in the history of federal
prisons, Dan Dunne, a spokesman
for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in
Washington, D.C., said Tuesday.
Dressed in tennis shorts, a black
T-shirt, sneakers and a black base
ball cap that bore the inscription,
“Pistons Champs: Back to Back,”
Rodman talked a language that
could be understood on the inside.
“There is no other world but this
one, man, and there is a great world
out there waiting for you. This
world needs you, they don’t need
you six feet under,” he said.
Rodmari, a key to the Pistons sec
ond-straight NBA title last month,
filled in at the prison for teammate
William Bedford, who had a sched
uling conflict. Rodman happily ac
cepted the invitation.
“A lot of guys are afraid to come
in here,” he said. “Not me. 1 love it. 1
love talking to these guys. Hell, man,
it could just as easily have been me in
here.
“I’m just like you and you are just
like me,” Rodman told the inmates
Seven years ago, Rodman spent
• two weeks in a Dallas jail for stealing
20 gold watches. It was 1983; Rod-
man was making $3.50 an hour
working the midnight shift at the
Dallas-Fort Worth International Air
port. He was bored, frustrated and
unhappy.
Because Rodman never sold the
watches, and all were recovered,
charges against him were dropped.
Rodman told inmates how he
twice was thrown out of his house by
his mother and how he lived on the
Dallas streets for three and four
months at a time. “Most of my old
buddies from back home are either
dead, in prison or running,” he said.
He told the graduates that Milan
didn’t have to be the end of the
world.
by Jeff Miliar & Bill Hinds
Denne
Freeman
Associated Press
Relaxing game
of golf too trying
for most duffers
As it just me or do
golf courses seem more crowded
with slower players these days?
Is there anything worse than a
S'/z-hour round where you have to
wait five minutes to hit every
shot?
What’s happening to the sport
we love, that was invented to be
played in a leisurely three hours?
Television is to blame for some
of the delay. There are too many
PGA Tour copy cats with 20
handicaps plumb-bobbing putts
and looking at the line from four
directions before they hit the ball.
They do it on television, so Doug
Duffer thinks it will improve his
sorry stroke. The rest of us have
to suffer while Duffer stalks his
putt like Lee Trevino.
How about the duffer who
takes so many practice swings
you would swear a helicopter was
in the area. Two practice swings
before you hit a ball are plenty.
Any more than that and you need
practice on the driving range.
Mulligans off the first tee are
fine. Ideally, we’d all like to hit a
bucket of practice balls before we
play, but often there isn’t time as
we rush to the course from work.
But mulligans on every hole?
Anyone caught hitting a mulligan
other than the first tee should be
shackled and escorted from the
More pet peeves
Do you love playing with a guy
who babbles on your backswing?
Not me. You learn a lot about
people on a golf course. Some are
so self-centered they have to tell
jokes or make excuses for their
last shot while you’re trying to
concentrate on a swing.
Ever play with someone who
refused to leave the course in at
least the same condition he found
it? This guy never fixes a ball
mark on the green, rakes the sand
after a bunker shot, or replaces a
divot. That’s how some greens
and fairways and bunkers get
enough pock marks to qualify as a
rnoon.
What about the wild cart
drivers? I saw a guy who thought
he was A.J. Foyt and drove too
close to a green, running his
machine into a bunker.
King for a day
If I was the commissioner of
golf for all the world. I’d also:
-Ban railroad ties around
greens.
-Ban any par 4 over 400 yards,
any par 5 over 550 yards and any
par 3 over 200 yards.
-Ban sandbaggers to a life
without golf.
-Install the YPY factor. Every
player 50 and over would get a
yard per year difference over his
competitor. Say if he played
somebody 30, then the senior
player would get 20 yards
difference on each tee box.
-Plow up any golf course over
6,500 yards long.
-Insist every course have at
/ -
least six par 3s.
-Ban orange, lime and yellow
: !? 3
golf balls.
: 7/0 5.
-Ban slow greens.
-Ban blind holes.
-Ban fairway traps.
Of course, I haven’t been
elected golf czar for the world
yet. Your support would be
appreciated.
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