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Monday, May 3,1993 The Battalion Page 5
Minor leagues
hold key to true
spirit of game
T he recent
d e m o 1 i -
tions of
Toronto's Exhi
bition Stadium
in 1989 and
Chicago's Old
Comiskey Park
in 1990 marked
the passing of
an era in profes
sional baseball.
Change, howev
er, is looking
back to the rel
ished days of
baseball's past.
Say goodbye
to the cathedrals of baseball like
Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds and
Shibe-Mack Stadium. These venera
ble establishments, which hold the
true history and lore of the game,
have been replaced by multi-pur
pose, cookie-cutter arenas such as
Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium,
Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium,
San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium,
and Veterans Stadium in Philadel
phia. These parks are not for the
game of baseball, but are solely for
the purposes of revenue all year-
round.
When the new elaborate stadiums
are erected, few will reproduce the
mystique of the Wrigley Fields, the
Tiger Stadiums and the Fenway
Parks. Gone are the unique ball yards
with advertisements splashed across
the walls. Gone are the organs, the
grass playing surfaces and the play
ers who play the gam,e because of
their love for it. All of these baseball
legacies are replaced by high-tech
scoreboards, synthesized, oversam
pled sound machines, astroturf and
See Rush/Page 6
Aggies no longer bridesmaids
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
A&M's Trey Moore dives back to the bag as Texas first Kieschnick. Moore earned the victory in the Aggies' second win
baseman Braxton Hickman takes the throw from pitcher Brooks over the Longhorns Saturday in Austin.
A&M earns first
outright SWC
title in 15 years
By MICHAEL PLUMER
The Battalion
AUSTIN - The Texas A&M baseball
team came within two bristles of sweep
ing the University of Texas at Disch-Falk
Field Sunday, but fell to the Longhorns
by a score of 3-1.
The Aggies (47-7, 15-3), though, were
merely playing for pride. A&M had
clinched the outright Southwest Confer
ence championship with a victory over
Texas (44-12, 11-7) Friday night, winning
6-2 at Olsen Field. That was followed by
a 9-1 A&M win Saturday night in Austin,
although the Aggies suffered a loss in
personnel during their second win of the
series.
Rightfielder Stephen Clay brook sepa
rated his shoulder in the second inning
while sliding into second base. His sta
tus is day-to-day.
The Longhorns also found themselves
short one player for the third game. First
baseman Braxton Hickman was hospital
ized with viral meningitis, and his return
See CKamps/Page 6
Granger's field of dreams comes true in SWC clincher
By DON NORWOOD
The Battalion
The weather was perfect. The atmos
phere was perfect. And for Jeff Granger,
the outcome of Friday's game with the
University of Texas was as close to per
fect as it gets.
When the ace lefthander shackled the
Longhorns 6-2 to insure top-ranked Texas
A&M of its first outright Southwest Con
ference Championship since 1978 and
raise his record to 12-2, it marked the pin
nacle of a career full of high points. That
much was obvious on the face of Granger
following the contest, as he remarked on
his and the team's performances with
wide-eyed amazement.
"It can always get better," Granger
said, pondering his future. "But there's
no other feeling that can be better (than
right now).
"It's great to be associated with a win
ning program. It's great to be able to do
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it (win the title) here at Olsen Field."
The numbers more than back up
Granger's dominance in his complete-
game win. He gave up only six hits and
four walks, while striking out twelve. All
of this against the fifth-ranked 'Homs.
The secret of his success was no secret
at all - heat. From the outset. Granger
showcased his array of fastballs and slid
ers, as Texas batters were behind the ball
all night. An as A&M coach Mark John
son said, that ability to blow pitches past
batters kept the Aggies out of trouble.
"I thought he kept them off-balance,"
Johnson said. "He had a good slider,
good velocity. He seemed to pitch better-
in a jam."
Fortunately for Granger, the only seri
ous jam came in the seventh inning, when
he struck out catcher Joel Williamson
with Peter Gardere on third and Stephen
Larkin on second. Texas was able to
scratch out their only two runs in the top
See Clincher/Page 6
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