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Tuesday, April 12, 1994
The Battalion
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The No. 25 Texas A&M men’s tennis team
vill host the Texas Tech Red Raiders in a dual
natch at 12:30 p.m. today at the Omar Smith
Tennis Center.
Head coach David Kent said A&M could
ot discount Tech.
“Texas Tech is a vasdy improved team and
hey will be a challenge for us,” Kent said.
‘They have talent throughout their lineup and
don’t have many weak spots. This is an im-
ortant match for us if we want to keep pace
■vith Texas and TCU, so we have to come out
dazing against Tech.”
A&M comes into the match with a 18-2
ecord (3-1 in the Southwest Conference),
fk&M’s best start ever. But the Aggies fell to
'Jo. 25 after being ranked No. 22 hy the In-
ercollegiate Tennis Association last week.
Individually, A&M senior Mark Weaver fell
three places to No. 28 in singles and sopho
more Blake Arrant fell out of the rankings af
ter previously being ranked.
The doubles team of Weaver and Bernardo
Martinez improved five spots to No. 24.
Lady Aggies to play Southwest Texas,
to honor seniors at final home game
By Kristine Ramirez
The Battalion
Kyle Burnett/ The Battalion
Heather Hayden (left) runs to third during the UTA Inter-Colle
giate tournament in South Grand Prairie in February.
The ninth-ranked Texas A&M softball team
will play its final home game against ’“scrappy”
Southwest Texas State University in a double-
header beginning at 5 tonight.
Seniors Jennifer McFalls, Kim Gonzalez and
Sara Stout will be recognized prior to the first
game.
The Lady Aggies are 42-16 after winning
this weekend series against Sam Houston State
University and St. Edward’s University. They are
6-0 at the new Lady Aggie Softball Complex
SWTSU is currently in a slump losing 14
out of the last 1 7 games they have played in
cluding a season-high 10 consecutive. Their
record is 9-3 2- 1.
Southwest Texas is lead by two freshmen
who are the only players currently batting over
.250. First baseman Kami Phillips is batting
.284 and shortstop Meredith Curry is batting
.27 5. SWTSU pitchers have posted a combined
3.67 earned run average.
Aggie Head Coach Bob Brock said it will be
difficult series against SWTSU. He said they al
ways save one of their best games for A&M.
“They’re always a scrappy little team.” he
said. “I’m looking forward to a tough double-
header.”
Brock said the team has had a tough sched
ule but they are still in pretty good shape.
He said Gonzalez and Christy Bunting will
pitch and possibly Kassie Wilcox. Gonzalez
leads the team with a 24-9 record and a 0.92
ERA: Gonzalez was ranked second in last week’s
national statistical rankings with 22 victories.
“She has done very well.” he said. “She’s not
giving up may runs. She’s having a great year.”
Bunting is 22-13 with a 1.45 ERA and
Wilcox is 8-5 with a 2.30 ERA.
Brock said the team is looking forward to
tonight’s games, especially because it is the last
home game. He said the team is always excited
to play at home especially in the new softball
complex.
“We’re looking forward to playing.” Brock
said. “We hope everyone will come out to see
us.”
Today’s sluggers do not have drive, desire to break Aaron’s record
wenty years ago last week, an ab
solutely unthinkable thing happened,
Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron shattered
Babe Ruth’s 41-year old career home run
lecord of 7 14.
No. 715 for Aaron came off Dodgers’
itcher Al Downing in front of a packed
ouse in Adanta. Aaron went on to hit 41
more home runs in his storied career,
bowing out with a career total of 7 5 5
lingers.
Twenty years after the fact, and Aaron’s
ecord looks just as unattainable as Ruth’s
nark must have in 193 5 when the Bambi-
io called it quits after a short stint with the
Boston Braves.
Considering all the fantastic players who
have come and gone in the 40 years be
tween Ruth’s retirement and Aaron’s ac
complishment, the Hammer’s feat is sim
ply amazing. Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays,
Frank Robinson, Reggie Jackson and Mike
Schmidt all made their runs at the top of
the list both before and after Aaron’s
achievement, but to no avail.
Fast forward to the 1990s, a decade
that has been hailed so far as the playing
grounds of a new breed of very young su
perstars. With the anniversary of Aaron’s
record-breaker last week, inevitably come
the questions on who will be the one to
break Aaron’s mark.
The answer, in a nutshell, is no one.
This doesn’t mean that one of the current
crop of superstars, mainly Ken Griffey Jr.,
Frank Thomas and Juan Gonzalez, could
not conceivably break the record.
It won’t happen because not one of the
three will want to break it.
Why not? The answer, the one-word
bane of the sports world in recent years, is
money.
In the last ten seasons, the major league
leader has averaged about 44.5 home runs.
A player averaging that total (a phenomenal
feat) would need 1 7 seasons to shatter
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Aaron’s mark. A more mortal player who
averaged, say, 3 5 home runs per season
would need 22 seasons to pass 75 5.
Who needs the kind of money that that
many seasons of play would entail? The
three superstars mentioned above all make
around $6 million a year.
Multiply that by 15-20 years, and you
get around SI 00 million, or the equivalent
of a good-sized empire. Dedication to the
game is tough when a guy is pulling that
kind of money.
With the average salary of a major lea
guer going over S1 million dollars a cou-
E le of years ago, even marginal players are
eing able to enter the comfort zone of fi
nancial security at a relatively early age.
Whereas 20 years ago, those same play
ers were attempting to constantly better
themselves and attempting to hang around
a team as a coach or manager to keep a
constant paycheck coming in.
Even if money were not a factor,
longevity would be.
Most players’ appearances in the big
leagues ,are fleeting. The recent marathon
careers of Nolan Ryan, George Brett, Carl
ton Fisk and Dave Winfield are exceptions
to the rule set by the thousands of other
major leaguers whose playing days are cut
short by injury and diminishing of skills.
But even longevity is no guarantee of
huge career numbers. Winfield, a perenni
al All-Star throughout the 1970s and
1980s, and now 43 years old, only reached
the 3,000 hit plateau last season.
Winfield will need two or three more
solid years to attain 5 00 home runs, not
even two-thirds of Aaron’s record.
Even Ryan, in his 27 seasons as a pitch
er, barely passed the 300-win mark, and
finished his career tied for 1 2 th place on
the all-time win list with 3 24 victories.
The bottom line of it all remains the
same, even after 20 years.
Ruth will always be the Sultan of Swat,
despite the fact that his two greatest
records have been broken.
Gonzalez, Griffey and Thomas may be
three of the greatest athletes to ever swing
a Louisville Slugger, and will probably all
end up in Cooperstown somewhere down
the line.
But Aaron’s record will be one for ages,
lasting as long as the game of baseball it
self.
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