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‘Junior’ will
break record
jOSH
ARTERBURY
Sportswriter
T his is the year of the chase.
Well this is one of those chase
like years. Okay, this year just
like all of the other years that play
ers chase the hallowed records of
baseball with a vengence. But this
year has got to be the one.
Year in and year out we see play
ers scorch through the first two
months of the season only to see
them fall back down to earth after
the All-Star break.
The most recent was Toronto
Blue Jay’s first baseman John
Olerud, who was in search of being
the first player since Ted William’s
to hit .400. Olerud was the center of
baseball’s attention as he flirted
with the mark until mid July in
1993, but slumped to finish the sea
son at .367.
This year’s frontrunner to break
one of baseball’s most legendary
marks is the young powerhouse Ken
Griffey Jr. And like last year, the
baseball world his projecting and
professing the fate of his 1994 sea
son.
The Seattle Mariner center field
er has mounted 32 homeruns faster
than any player in history, and is on
pace to hit 64 by the end of the sea
son. And as long as the eternal
baseball optimists around the coun
try say, “He’s on pace to break that
record,” there is still hope.
And after all, who doesn’t want to
see the “Junior” break the seemingly
impossible homerun mark (except
for opposing pitchers.) Even Roger
Maris, who set the record of 61
homers in 1961, is probably rooting
for the “young one” to swing away.
Maris broke the longstanding
record set by the legendary Babe
Ruth, who hit 60 in 1928. And no
player has come within 8 homeruns
of the Maris mark in 33 years.
The record itself, is as hallowed
as the players who set and broke it.
Only two players in the history of
baseball have hit 60 homeruns. So
the idea of a player from this era of
baseball breaking that record is the
fuel that feeds the fire of every base
ball fan.
But not so fast. The history of
baseball has proven that hitting
streaks turn into hitting slumps. So
counting on a season pace is like de
pending on the Ranger’s bullpen.
Kevin Mitchell hit 31 homeruns
before the All-Star break in 1989,
putting him on pace to hit 62. But
the record haunted Mitchell as he
hit only 16 dingers after the break.
In 1969 Reggie Jackson hit 40
homeruns by August but slumped in
the last two months of the season,
finishing with 47.
And since no player has entered
September with more than 45
Please see Record/Page 4
5 PORTS
The boys of summer go to camp Aggie
Page 3
A&M coach Johnson 'runs' tough camp
By Brian Coats
The Battalion
Aspiring baseball stars from
all over the state and nation are
learning fundamentals from
Mark Johnson and his staff at
Texas A&M this week in the
fifth and sixth sessions of the
Texas Aggie Summer Baseball
Camp.
The campers at Olsen Field
are off and running...and run
ning, and running.
Bill Hickey, an assistant
baseball coach, said the campers
do not do anything other than
play baseball the four days they
are here. When asked what the
kids do apart from baseball, he
laughed.
“What do they do other than
baseball?” he said. “Nothing.
We don’t have a cookout with
burgers and fries, if that’s what
you mean.”
Hickey said the four-day ses
sion is an instructional camp
emphasizing offense.
“The younger kids are on the
field two times a day,” he said.
“They get more hitting repeti
tions here in four days than
they probably get all summer on
their home teams.”
George Bond,12, from
Gainesville, said he has already
noticed a change in his skills be
cause of the camp. He labeled
the camp as “hard work.”
“The camp is really hard
when we run, and we run a lot,”
he said.
Hickey said the camp coaches
are countering the hot weather
College Station has been having
by giving the campers frequent
water breaks.
“It’s real hot, but we give
them cool-down periods,” he
said.
Hickey, who has been doing
the camp all 11 years that he
has been an A&M coach, said
the camp is an excellent oppor
tunity to show off A&M.
“We’ll get 500-600 young
kids on campus this summer,”
he said. “Pretty soon some of
them will fall in love and want
to come.”
The baseball staff running
the camp, which includes high
school coaches and former A&M
players, keeps a tight schedule.
A few hours after this camp
ends today, and new and older
group of campers will be coming
in for another four-day session.
Hickey said the older players
work even harder.
“We have them out three
times a day, once on Kyle Field,”
he said. “We go more in-depth
with the older guys, drilling and
working on game and hitting
situations.”
He said sometimes the A&M
baseball program benefits from
the high school camps.
“Some of the kids that come
through here will get put on a
recruiting list and we will follow
them,” he said. “Paul Barber
and Richard Petru are two guys
now on the team that came to
our camps.”
Bart Mitchell/THE Battalion
One of the players attending the Texas Aggie Baseball
Camp goes through a bunting drill on Kyle Field.
Cotton Bowl to
stay at fairgrounds,
wont go to Irving
DALLAS (AP) — The Cotton Bowl Ath
letic Association voted unanimously Tues
day to keep the traditional New Year’s Day
game at the state fairgrounds rather than
move it to Texas Stadium in suburban Irv
ing.
In a closed door meeting, board mem
bers accepted a counter offer by the city of
Dallas intended to keep the game at the
same site near downtown where it has
been played for 58 years.
The association last week had proposed
moving the post-season game from Fair
Park to Texas Stadium after Dallas Cow
boys owner Jerry Jones proposed putting a
retractable roof on the arena.
The city of Dallas responded with an of
fer that includes $4 million in improve
ments at the Cotton Bowl, plus another $4
million for free food, transportation, lodg
ing and other bonuses aimed at helping
the Cotton Bowl remain a top-ranked, New
Year’s Day college football bowl game.
Commissioners of the National Colle
giate Athletic Association have said they
expect to retain only the Rose Bowl and
three other major bowls for New Year’s
Day.
“Our main objective is to make sure the
Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic survives as a
tier one bowl and I think we Ye arm in arm
and in concert in terms where we would
like to play that game and continue to play
it at Fair Park,” Cotton Bowl Association
FYesident John Crawford said after meet
ing.
A major factor in the aborted decision to
move the game, Crawford said last week,
was the “perception” among college football
and network television officials that the
downtown stadium is too exposed to in
clement winter weather, Crawford said.
Rockets, Spurs, Mavericks looking
for different things in NBA draft
DALLAS (AP) — All three Texas
teams enter Wednesday’s NBA draft
looking for different things.
The Dallas Mavericks need any
thing and everything. The San Anto
nio Spurs need one thing: a point
guard. The Houston Rockets just
hope for something.
Dallas has three picks among the
first 28, giving the Mavericks a now-
or-never chance to turn around the
team that’s been the worst in the
league the last two years.
“It’s very important,” new player
personnel director Keith Grant said.
“When a team builds as we are, this
should make us even better.”
Grant and coach Dick Motta have
a can’t-miss pick at No. 2 and likely
will take Jason Kidd despite his re
cent off-court problems and the ris
ing stock of Grant Hill.
For Dallas, the thought of a 1-2-3
combination of Kidd and previous top
choices Jim Jackson and Jamal
Mashbum is too good to pass up.
The real key to this draft for the
Mavs is at No. 19 and No. 28 where
they must take either a big man —
possibly Marquette’s 7-foot-l center
Jim McDvaine — or find guys who
can be quality backups for many
years.
San Antonio only has one pick at
No. 22, which is fine because the
Spurs may be only one player away
from turning last year’s first-round
upset victim into next year’s top title
contender.
The lack of a point guard may
have cost the jobs of coach John Lu
cas and longtime executive Bob Bass.
So now it’s up to former assistant
Gregg Popovich, the team’s new vice
president of basketball operations, to
find the right person to bring the ball
up the court and get it to scoring
champion David Robinson.
An interesting choice to quarter
back the Spurs’ offense would be
Florida State’s Charlie Ward, the
Heisman Trophy winner bypassed in
the NFL draft.
Other possibilities include B.J.
Tyler of Texas, Tony Dumas of Mis-
souri-Kansas City and Tony Tolbert
of Detroit.
Then there’s the NBA champion
Rockets, who will have to take off
their party hats and scour their rat
ings charts if they’re going to add
anyone to their roster.
Houston’s only pick this year is
No. 53 — the seeond-to-last of the
draft.
The Rockets found starter Robert
Horry and sparkplug Sam Cassell in
the middle and latter part of the last
two first rounds, but even finding
anyone capable of making their 12-
man roster is unlikely unless they
trade up.
Barone enjoys success with
‘94 A&M basketball camp
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
For the past three days, G. Rollie
White Coliseum has held some illus
trious names. The Celtics, the Rock
ets, the Bulls.
Unfortunately for basketball fans,
these aren’t the NBA teams from
Boston, Houston or Chicago. They
are among the many teams that com
prise the first of two sessions of the
Texas A&M Basketball Camp.
Approximately 260 campers from
all over the state and country are en-
joying the tutelage of A&M head
coach Tony Barone and the coun
selors he has assembled.
Barone said the coaches are one of
the key elements of the camp.
“We’ve got some really good coach
es,” Barone said. “They’re hand
picked.”
Barone’s camp had humble begin
nings but has grown in size in his
stay at A&M.
“Irwour first year we had about 100
kids in two camps,’.’ Barone said.
“We have about 600 kids this year.”
The growth of the camp could be
related to the successful year the Ag
gies had during the 1993-94 season,
Barone said.
“The camp has really blossomed,”
he said. “I’m sure [our success] has
something to do with it.
“But, with the Rockets winning
the championship, I think there’s a
lot of interest in basketball in Texas.”
Even though the camp has been
small at times, one camper keeps
coming back year after year. It is
someone Tony Barone is very famil
iar with, his son Brian Barone.
“I go to all of the camps,” Brian
Barone said. “I like them because
you get to meet a lot of different peo
ple.”
The younger Barone also likes it
for the type of competition played at
the camp.
“The good thing is that everybody
is nice,” he said. “There’s no trash
talking. That stuff is taken care of
the first day.
“And, if you win, you don’t take it
back to the dorm.”
At the beginning of the camp the
players divided into different age and
size groups. In those groups the
players tryout for the various teams.
In the mornings the players run
through stations, where they work
with coaches on individual skills.
Then, in the afternoons they practice
with their teams and play scrimmage
games.
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