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Tuesday • July 11,19)
All-Stars try to shine through storm clouds of strike
□ Big crowd sees Thomas
win Home Run Derby.
ARLINGTON (AP) — When it
came to the All-Star home run derby,
major leaguers didn’t have a million-
doll ar swing Monday.
While no one came close to hitting
the scoreboard above the right-field
porch at The Ballpark, a target more
than 500 feet away, Frank Thomas of
the Chicago White Sox beat Cleve
land’s Albert Belle in the final, aver
aging 432.5 feet per homer.
“I think I was sitting with six or
seven outs without a homer,”
Thomas said. “I thought I had a
chance of going the whole contest
without hitting one. I slowed my
body down and things fell into place.”
With injuries to Ken Griffey Jr.
and Mark McGwire, there was only
one left-handed hitter in the con
test: Boston’s Mo Vaughn. He hit
three homers in the first round, his
best a 460-foot drive into the right-
field upper deck.
On top of the home run porch — de
signed as a tribute to Tiger Stadium
in Detroit — is a Sony Jumbotron
scoreboard. To the right is a white
sign that reads “HIT IT HERE & WEN
A FREE SUIT 501 FT.,” a takeoff on
Abe Stark’s “Hit Sign Win Suit” bill
board on the right field scoreboard at
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
The Texas Rangers and Pinnacle
Brands, a Dallas-based trading card
company, said they’d contribute $1
million to charity if any player hit
the scoreboard, the four billboards on
it or the roof of the office building in
left or right fields.
No one came close.
In 1993, Griffey hit the B&O
Warehouse adjacent to Camden
Yards. Last year, when Griffey edged
Thomas at Three Rivers Stadium in
Pittsburgh, Thomas hit the most dra
matic blasts, including a 519-foot dri
ve into the upper deck. He averaged
495.5 feet for his four homers.
On Monday, in a new format, he
averaged 438.9 feet for eight first-
round homers, while Belle was sec
ond with a 421.9 average for seven.
Each player swung until he made 10
“outs” — swings that weren’t
homers. After the first round, the
field was cut to four, and another
round left just Thomas and Belle.
Belle, who didn’t speak to re
porters after the contest, entered as
a substitute Monday after Oakland’s
McGwire was forced out of the All-
Star game because of a concussion.
1995 ALL-STAR GAME
THE BALLPARK IN ARLINGTON
On July 11, the Texas Rangers will host the 66th annual All-Star Game. It will be the
very first time that the Mid-Summer Classic will be held in the Dallas-Fort Worth
Metroplex and the third time the game has been played in the state of Texas. The
1968 and 1986 All-Star games were played in the Houston Astrodome.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE STARTERS
p,a y er Votes
Ivan Rodriguez, Texas 1,151,708
Frank Thomas, Chicago 895,576
Carlos Baerga, Cleveland 1,152,652
Wade Boggs, New York 884,651
Cal Ripken, Baltimore 1,698,524
Albert Belle, Cleveland 1,056,134
Kenny Lofton-x, Cleveland 975,801
Kirby Puckett, Minnesota 997,623
x- replaces Ken Griffey Jr. (injured) 1,204,748 votes
Future All-Star games
Year Sites
1996 Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
1997 Jacobs Field, Cleveland
1998 Coors Field,-Colorado
1999 Site to be determined
2000 Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami
NATIONAL LEAGUE STARTERS
Position
Catcher
First Base
Second Base
Third Base
Shortstop
Outfield
Outfield
Outfield
1995
Honorary
Captains
American League
Nolan Ryan
National League
Ferguson Jenkins
Player
Mike Piazza, Los Angeles
Fred McGriff, Atlanta
Craig Biggio, Houston
Vinny Castilla-x, Colorado
Barry Larkin-y, Cincinnati
Barry Bonds, San Francisco
Lenny Dykstra, Philadelphia
Tony Gwynn, San Diego
x- replaces Matt Williams (injured)
y-replaces Ozzie Smith (injured) 1,
All-Star Game wins
Votes
1,195,136
871,904
825,062
604,823
948,945
1,392,130
903,952
898,951
1,029,519 votes;
367,518 votes
1 tie
AP/Ed De Gasero
□ Bargaining leaders left;
home as on-the-field stan
take center stage.
ARLINGTON (AP) — The stars*:
negotiated for the baseball union l-
winter aren’t All-Stars this summer.
Cecil Fielder, Tom Glavine, Bir
Butler, Paul Molitor, Orel Hersh
and Jay Bell dominated the spo:
pages as the players’ associat:
fought owners. Since the end oft
232-day strike, they’ve struggled
dropped from their usual level.
“The funny thing is, through;:
winter, the people who were reguk
attending were talking about ways
try to find time to work out, to mi
sure that doesn’t happen,” Toror.:
Molitor said. “Now we look bad
nearly half a season and you wore
if it did have an impact.”
Molitor is hitting .236 with sev
homers and 32 RBIs, down fro:
.341 average, 14 homers and 751
in the abbreviated 1994 season.
Butler, cut loose by the Los k,
les Dodgers during the strike, sip
with the New York Mets forS2:
lion. He’s hitting .255, s downfe:
.314 last season.
“Many fans have reacted tousr.
atively, management has. I know
come down on me in a negatives
Butler said. “Some of us conside:
retiring. But I don’t have any rep
in getting involved. I got involved
cause I thought I could help. I wo.
n’t change a thing that I did.”
Before the strike. Fielder hit.
last season with 28 homers anc
RBIs in 109 games. Prior tot
year’s All-Star break. Fielder was
ting .255 with 20 homers anc
RBIs. Tigers fans even booed him
“It took the fun of the first par
the season for me,” said Fielder, *
seemed uncomfortable in a suit!:
winter as he lobbied on Capitol!
“I’ve started slow before and I ak
tried to not get too up or too do*
but I was not really concentratin'
baseball and it took the fun outoflk
game for awhile. Now it’s resurfaq
I’m a ballplayer now. I justdoi
want to have to go through anyth::
like that again.”
Tigers manager Sparky Anders:
thought the strike set back Fielder.
“He’d been going throu^A s
much and it wears you down me:
tally and physically,” Andersi
said. “By the time they gottospr:
training they felt like they had:
really had any time off.”
AL All-Star Stats
Starters
AVG AB
R
H
HR
RBI
Rodriguez, Tex
.332
211
29
70
6
31
Thomas, Chi
.325
228
49
74
21
53
Baerga, Cle
.327
281
43
92
11
45
Boggs, NY
.295
207
26
61
2
28
Ripken, Bai
.284
264
34
75
7
35
Belle, Cle
.312
260
52
81
14
51
Lofton, Cle
.313
249
43
78
5
27
Puckett, Min
Reserves
.280
264
36
74
10
40
Alomar, Tor
.316
256
37
81
10
37
OiSarcina, Cal
.324
250
44
81
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33
Martinez, Sea
.363
240
58
87
14
56
Seitzer, Mil
.323
232
24
75
2
: 37
Vaughn, Bos
.290
262
52
76
24
60
Edmonds, Cal
.291
261
54
76
13
52
O'Neill, NY
.346
185
35
64
11
39
Ramirez, Cle
.320
231
44
74
18
52
Stanley, NY
.260
181
28
47
7
34
Pitchers
W
L SV
BB
SO
ERA
Appier, KC
11
5 0
45
120
3.04
Finley, Cal
7
7 0
4.4
97
3.56
Hanson, Bos
7
2 0
21
77
3.61
Johnson, Sea
9
1 0
34
152
2.88
Martinez, Cle
8
0 0
16
48
2.37
Mesa, Cle
1
0 21
8
25
1.84
Ontiveros, Oak
8
3 0
18
50
3.09
Rogers, Tex
8
4 0
37
64
3.05
Smith, Cal
0
2 20
16
21
3.22
Wells, Det
8
3 0
31
66
3.00
Baseball needs big show tonight
Nick
Georgandis
T he tension will be so
thick at tonight’s All-
Star Game at The Ball
park at Arlington, one would
think the Rangers were in the
World Series.
The intensity won’t be on
the field, but rather in the
stands as the players try to
woo back fans who have been
so disillusioned by the recent players strike.
With basketball and hockey seasons over
for nearly a month and pro football’s train
ing camp still three weeks away, baseball
takes center stage tonight, and will attempt
to use one of its crown jewels to reheat
America’s love for its national pastime.
Baseball officials have pulled out all the
stops for tonight, even for the ceremonial first
pitch. When former Ranger and baseball leg
end Nolan Ryan takes the mound one more
time to toss a fastball, expect to hear the Ar
lington crowd’s roar in College Station.
But Ryan retired the season before the
trouble really came to a hilt in the major
leagues. True, Ryan did strike along with
the players’ union three times during his
phenomenal 25-year career, but fans re
member him as a symbol of the good old
days of baseball.
Although many superstars will be shining
bright tonight for baseball, three of its
biggest ones will be conspicuously absent.
and the fans will un-
doubtably notice.
One is Ken Griffey Jr.,
who has been out of the
Seattle Mariners’ line-up
since breaking his hand last
month while crashing into a
centerfield fence while catch
ing a fly ball. Seattle has
sorely missed Griffey’s bat
ting and fine fielding, but tonight’s game
will miss his grace and his wonderful smile.
Also missing the action will be Atlanta
Braves ace Gregg Maddux, who strained a
groin muscle over the weekend. Maddux,
with his 9-1 record and 1.64 earned run av
erage, easily could have been the National
League’s starting pitcher tonight. Although
the Los Angeles Dodgers’ standout rookie
Hideo Nomo surely will dazzle the crowd
with his funky delivery, he will also surely
feel the butterflies in his stomach when he
takes the mound.
Maddux has seen this scene before and
would have been at his very best against the
powerful American Leagne line-up. With a
nervous Nomo on the hill, the game could
get ugly.
Perhaps the saddest no-show of them all
is St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie
Smith, who was voted in by the fans but has
been injured all season. The All-Star game
See Georgandis, Page 4
NL All-Star Stats
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Starters
AVG AB
R
H
HR R8i
Piazza, LA
.377
162
32
61
13
37
McGriff, Atl
.279
251
46
70
11
45
Biggio, Hou
.280
264
55
74
10
41
Castilla, Col
.31 7
262
41
83
17
48
Larkin, Cin
.289
225
44
65
6
25
Bonds, SF
.306
248
52
76
16
53
Dykstra, Phi
.262
191
23
50
0
15
Gwynn, SD
Reserves
.364
269
43
98
6
52
Bonilla, NY
.315
260
37
82
13
40
Grace, Chi
.340
262
46
89
10
45
Morandini, Phi
.282
227
33
64
4
21
Offerman, LA
.303
251
43
76
1
18
Bichette, Col
.336
274
43
92
13
48
Conine, Fla
.322
227
40
73
14
48
Gant, Cin
.291
230
51
67
20
54
Mondesi, LA
,315
270
52
85
13
40
Sanders, Cin
.311
251
48
78
15
5t
Sosa, Chi
.273
278
37
76
15
54
Dauiton, Phi
.221
213
29
47
6
31
Pitchers
W
l SV
BB
SO
ER 1
Green, Phi
8
4 0
41
58
2f
Henke, StL
0
0 17
8
21
lit
Maddux, Atl
8
1 0
8
86
1.f4
Myers, Chi
0
1 21
13
33
2.4.
Neagle. Pit
9
4 0
21
71
33
Nomo, LA
6
1 0
46
119
1*
Perez, Mtl
7
2 0
14
53
3.?
Slocumb, Phi
1
0 20
18
29
2.1*
Worrell, LA
2
0 12
5
26
0.3.
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