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Fuesday, September 8,1992 Texas A&M SPORTS The Battalion Page 9 >ber8,l er arid hard ill lost it an: he wai o was jus 'ancisco, tthrew, ped. the con- /emed. I nsent is puts the mcil in coundl League Nation al White e Autry lolomay Forth of >f Balti- i of St. nnesota, Boston )iego. h some ope we ful way g base- contad- tis tour- sion to Tor all aseball, ad solu- at con- e been xossible , presi- tail and nmittee >en efly f® 1 year-oil ower much b ex I the thirl also wa; :t it r: McLane handles spotlight that comes with ownership THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ayt 11 i vlcLane Jr. is not a baseball nut -■openAil j U th e learned a lot about it in the nonths leading to his purchase of he Houston Astros. , Still, despite advice from As- napwte I0S owner j 0 h n McMullen and i*? V v 'is own years at the helm of a Washing nu itibillion-dollar company, ^ McLane wasn't quite ready when he spotlight hit the day in July his «snap os ?urc hase was announced. "We've had 50 times more oublicity in the last six weeks than n the past 33 years in business," 1t*P dcLane said. "I missed under- •'■A vBitanding the magnitude of that." The Houston City Council has eted him. Radio talk show hosts lave called. And mail from As- os fans has poured in. "It's endless, from uniforms to vho should sing the national an- hem at the Astrodome," McLane aid. Major league owners are ex acted to approve McLane's bid or the Astros, along with one by )etroit pizza entrepreneur Mike litch for the Tigers, at a meeting nSt. Louis this week. The Astros deal, reportedly alued at $115 million, begins a najor transition for McLane, who s tall and gregarious and still alls himself a "humble little gro- :er." Early next year, he will step iside as chief executive officer of 4cLane Co. Inc., which he has led or 27 years. The company grew from a gro- :ery started by McLane's grandfa- her 98 years ago to become one of he nation's largest grocery dis- ributors and the biggest supplier o convenience stores. Revenue ivill exceed $4.5 billion this year. In McLane's place will come oe Hardin Jr., executive vice pres cient of logistics and personnel idministration at Wal-Mart Stores re., which bought McLane Co. in 1990. Wal-Mart reportedly paid McLane 10.4 million shares of stock valued at more than $300 million at the time, but worth over $560 million today. The deal made McLane one of the wealthiest men in Texas. Forbes and Texas Monthly have estimated his for tune to be over $300 million. McLane declines to discuss the figures. Hardin will be the first Wal- Mart executive to work at McLane's headquarters, a Frank Lloyd Wright-styled building on a bluff at the edge of this central Texas city. McLane had initiated the tran sition before his talks with Mc Mullen on the Astros turned seri ous in June. But a company to run the National League team and an other to run the Astrodome, which McLane is also getting from McMullen, will be the first two units of his new venture, the McLane Group. He eventually hopes to acquire seven or eight enterprises in vari ous industries and operate them independently. His role: "head cheerleader." "I want to apply the principles of leadership, honesty, integrity and get people excited, really ig nite them," McLane said. "I want them jumping up and down like a football team when they score." His first challenge, though, is baseball. McLane enters the sport at a critical time: attendance at major league games is flat, a lockout is possible in the spring because of exploding player salaries and the network TV contract is to be rene gotiated next year. McLane's speech quickens at the prospect. "That's why I like business. I've always said the more compli cated it gets, the better it's going to be," he said. "I thought 'Gee, wouldn't it be fun to get involved with some thing where there would be dif ferent issues, newer issues and you would get to meet a lot of highly successful people?"' he said. "You've got 28 owners and they are highly successful, strong- willed, want to be winners. I thought that would really, really, really be fun." McLane plans to stick with the Astros' current management, in cluding general manager Bill Wood and assistant general man ager Bob Watson. But he may open up the team to the free agency market, which McMullen refused to. "We're exploring that. We don't own it yet," McLane said, declining to be specific because of the league's "meddling" rule that prevents non-owners from talking to players. "They've got a young, scrappy group of players," McLane said of the Astros. "They need two or three more strong, impact players that can make a difference for them, particularly in pitching and hitting." But his assessment is based on months, rather than years, of fol lowing the team, or the game, closely. McLane estimates he's only been to about 15 major league games. "I'm a sports fan, have never been a giant baseball fan, so I'm really no great strategist," McLane said. "I have really been overwhelmed at what a compli cated game baseball is — unbe lievable strategy in baseball." Key in McLane's strategy will be to keep the trust of Astros fans, who were glad to see McMullen go despite two division titles dur ing his 13-year ownership. "We need to make decisions to protect our financial investment but we need to make decisions for the public. The public really gets wrapped up in these teams. They're kind of the mood of the city." Barone to host golf tournament, dinner FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS d of theii vvas tali' the net th Couii' t the first y pass^ t all look Lj resume! ^ -eiyfafp d after 2 ^ Courier ^ •t witl 1 > ' 4>7 S; e map , rain at gervin? , adv an ' k 7-0,61 ^ ^lalee- ^ Texas A&M head basketball :oach Tony Barone will host the Barone Bash golf tournament and dinner, featuring basketball hall of famer A1 McGuire, on Friday, Oct. 2. "We're trying to take every oppor tunity we can to get people inter- asted in Texas A&M basketball," Barone said. "Being a very poor but avid golfer myself, I know most golfers will play any chance Barone they get. This gives them a chance to play Pebble Creek and to sup port our program." The tournament will begin at 12:30 p.m. at Pebble Creek Coun try Club in College Station, the site of the 1993 Southwest Confer ence Men's Golf Championships. The dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the Col lege Station Hilton, with cocktails served at 7 p.m. The tonament will have a scramble format, and the $115 en try fee will include green fees and cart, lunch, ditty bag, dinner and two tickets to the Dec. 5 basketball home opener against Missouri. Additional dinner tickets may be purchased with the golf package for $20 Tickets for the dinner are $25. McGuire, former head coach at Marquette and basketball analyst for NBC, will be the featured speaker. The dinner also will fea ture a highlight video of the golf tournament along with a presen tation of awards. "A1 McGuire is probably one of the last true dinosaurs in the bas ketball business," Barone said. "He has experienced every possi ble success in college basketball, topped by his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame this year." For golf and dinner reserva tions, please contact Kevin Hurley at the Texas A&M Basketball Of fice (409) 845-4531. Clemens out-duels Ryan, 3-0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARLINGTON, Texas- The marquee matchup between Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens was everything it was supposed to be Monday night. For seven innings, they du eled with three-hit shutouts. In the eighth, Boston broke through for two runs and went to beat the Texas Rangers 3-0. Jose Canseco, making his home debut for the Rangers, went 1 for 3 and made a leap ing catch against the right-field wall. Still, he was reduced to third billing as baseball's most popular pitchers faced off for just the third time ever. They split decisions in early 1989. Clemens (18-8) gave up only three hits in eight innings, and lowered his league-leading ERA to 2.18. He struck out nine, including a streak of sev en in a row in the middle in nings. He walked three and also threw a pitch that hit Juan Gonzalez, who left the game with a bruised left forearm. Clemens did not allow a fair ball to be hit from the end of the fourth inning until the eighth. He came within one of the AL record he shares with Ryan and Ron Davis for most consecutive strikeouts. Ryan (5-9) is winless in his last eight starts, going 0-6 in that span. He allowed two runs on six hits in 8 1-3 innings. Ryan took himself out of the game with a strained muscle in his lower left back. Matt White- side relieved and gave up a run on Tony Pena's single. Neither team put a runner on third base until the eighth. Herm Winningham led off for Boston with a single, was sacri ficed to second and took third on a wild pitch. Rookie John Valentin fol lowed with his second double of the game for a 1-0 lead. With two outs, Scott Cooper hit a grounder that glanced off the first-base bag, and Valentin scored on the single. Clemens left after the eighth, and Tony Fossas began the ninth. The Rangers had runners on first and third with no outs. Joe Hesketh, the third Boston pitcher of the inning, got a game-ending double play for his first AL save. 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