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5309 A2322 v. 105 mo 14T ic ie Battalion Sports Page 3 • Wednesday, June 2, 1999 sal risen oi: admiiiji] to cauiil is of | ney| remaicl residential astimes Take a sed his i breatf, Ixhibit showcases history o Bush’s baseball career BY NONI SRIDHARA The Battalion I Former President George Bush and America s-fa vorite pastime fit together like a hand and a glove. The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum is displaying a baseball exhibit honoring Bush s fas cination with the sport to tie in with the Texas A&M j9Hsehall season. The display highlights Bush s base- BBIii “career,” from his days of intercollegiate baseball at Yale University to his appearance in an Old timers baseball game in 1984. At the age of 60, Bush suited out in a Denver Bears uniform to man first base. V Along the way, Bush was elected to serve as cap- Jin of a Yale team that reached the World College Se ries two years in a row. He then went on to lead the Baseball A Team of Andover, Mass., once carrying a IBtting average of .476 through a four-game series. ■ In the early 1950s, Bush played outfield on the Mid land Shell Oil softball team, even though Bush never ^Worked for Shell. ■| Shell teammate Hilton Ladner said Bush showed HBajor-league skills, even in softball. I “He could throw, catch and hit,” Ladner said. “He had what it takes to be a good ballplayer. We knew ab- sblutely nothing about his background, but we want ed him on the team.” I In his book, Looking Fonvard, Bush said he idol- iied Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig as an athlete. I “Gehrig played college ball at Columbia and set a standard of excellence on and off the field, Bush said lib the book. “No hotdogging — the ideal sportsman, ['.'■e could field, hit, hit with power and come through as a great athlete and team leader.” I Even during his presidential term, Bush s passion fipr baseball never waned. He kept a Rawling mitt in i fts drawer and a Baseball Encyclopedia next to his ijlesk in the Oval Office. k ■ The exhibit contains many artifacts of historical sig- b niticance. Us \ Brian Blake, public relations officer for the Bush Li- brary, said the artifacts havejbeen in the Bush collection the but have never been displayed together before. I “Many of these were gifts that Bush received dur- Aggies ready for Tigers in Super Regional play BY REECE FLOOD The Battalion MIKE FUENTES/The Battauon Nine-year-old Trevor Meadows shows his four-year-old brother, Dwight Stockman, the new baseball exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library Tuesday afternoon. ing his presidency,” Blake said. Items include a first baseman’s glove autographed by ^Cardinals great Stan Musial and baseballs auto graphed by Yankees star Joe DiMaggio, Musial and the 1994 A&M Baseball Team. There is also an engraved U.S. Navy Lou Gehrig bat used by the crew of the USS Finback, the submarine which rescued Bush after he was shot down near the island of ChiChi Jima. Blake said one of the most unique items on display is an autographed picture of Bush, legendary out fielder Ted Williams and DiMaggio. A&M has the honor of being the only place to car ry limited-edition commemorative George Bush base ball cards featuring his photo and statistics from Yale. The first 1,000 visitors who visited the museum when the exhibit opened May 22nd received a free card. Blake said the exhibit will run through the end of this summer. nc Study reveals findings on andro Results suggest dietary supplement may not help muscle growth 'efaresj CHICAGO (AP) — The dietary es ee rl supplement used by Mark McG- artnisf«j re qogg nothing to boost men’s a 111311 strength and instead might pro- Biote breast enlargement, heart dis- WjIL e L se anc j C a ncer> a study suggests. emandB The study, published in !ads^Wednesday’s Journal of the Amer ican Medical Association, com- phred androstenedione (pro- andu 1 npunced an-droh-STEEN-die-ohn) Bith a dummy pill in 20 men ages s istxp i i) to 29 during an eight-week e numl weightlifting p r0 g ram inthis® T] ie supplement, a steroid, is ;anDoi® a d e 0 f a naturally occurring hor- , Bone the body uses in tiny own ia amounts to make the male hor- ordingi ntone testosterone, business I Androstenedione supplements / 4.6ps contain many times the amount ldressii1f(| unc i i n the body naturally, and trim b McGwire has said he uses the sub- it by ^stance to speed recovery from mi- Texas-t n L r injuries. lodesni In the study, androstenedione irsonif hbd n o effect on testosterone levels in the blood, and no difference in strength could be found between the two groups of men, Douglas King, an exercise biochemist at Iowa State University in Ames who led the research, said. "Some of the leading people in the field, along with the players' association, [are] looking at the issue: — Pat Courtney Spokesperson, Major League Baseball But the men who took the sup plement — 300 milligrams daily — showed significant declines in lev els of the “good” cholesterol that helps prevent heart disease. The androstenedione also raised the men’s levels of the female hormone estrogen, King said. Elevated levels of estrogen in men are known to promote breast enlargement and are also associ ated with a higher risk of pancre atic and possibly other cancers, he noted. The study did not measure breast size. King said such an effect proba bly would take longer to occur. McGwire, who hit a record 70 home runs last year, had no com ment on the findings. A furor erupted last year when The Asso ciated Press reported he used an drostenedione. Major league baseball spokesper son Pat Courtney said the league has “some of the leading people in the field, along with the players’ associ ation, looking at the issue.” The hormonal effect of an drostenedione in men is the oppo site of what has been reported in women. In a paper 37 years ago, re searchers reported that two women who each took 100 milligrams of androstenedione on a single occa sion had four- to sevenfold in creases in their blood levels of testosterone. Clemson University baseball coach Jack Leggett hopes to take his team to the College World Se ries in Omaha, Neb. The only thing standing between him and that goal is the Texas A&M Baseball team (50-15), which Clemson will face in the College Station Super Regional. Last weekend, Texas A&M fought its way back through the loser’s bracket to defeat Long Beach State University in a dou bleheader to win the Regional. A&M baseball coach Mark Johnson said he was pleased with the way the team came together to earn the victory. “We had a lot of guys have good tournament,” he said. “We had a lot of guys (nine) make the tour nament team.” The key to winning the Region al for A&M came in the first cham pionship game. With a thin bullpen after three games, the Ag gies went to freshman pitcher Khalid Ballouli, who pitched a complete game. The performance allowed sophomore Chris Russ to pitch most of the second game. “The guy (Ballouli) was huge because he didn’t get us in the bullpen,” Johnson said. “He gave us a ‘W.’” Junior rightfielder Daylan Holt said the Aggies are excited about winning the Regional but know there is no time for celebrating just yet. “It’s one step closer for us to reach one of our goals, and that is to get to Omaha,” Holt said. To get to Omaha, the Aggies will have to win two of three games against the Tigers (41-25) this weekend in the College Station Su per Regional. After losing their opening game in the Fayetteville, Ark., Regional last weekend, the Tigers swept doubleheaders Saturday and Sun day to take the title. Clemson had three players named to the all-tournament team. Freshman third baseman Khalil Greene led the way, batting .611 with 11 hits, five doubles and 10 RBIs on the weekend, while Patrick Boyd hit .429 with two home runs and six RBIs. Ryan Mot- tl pitched a complete game against the University of Delaware to win, 17-3, giving up nine hits for two earned runs and two walks while striking out five. Johnson said Clemson and A&M both proved they could win clutch games after losing early in their respective tournaments. TERRY ROBERSON/Thh Battalion Aggie junior second baseman Sean Heaney turns the double play during fourth-inning action of the Texas A&M Baseball team’s game against Long Beach State Sunday at Olsen Field. “They came back through the losers’ bracket and gutted it out, so I was very, very impressed with that,” he said. Holt said playing at Olsen Field is a big advantage for the Aggies. “We talked to one of their (Clemson) players the other day, and they said that the biggest fans they played in front of was about 3,000, so you know right there we’re going to have at least 7,000- 8,000,” he said. This season, Olsen Field has had an average attendance of over 6,735. The largest crowd of the year, 7,310, was for the second championship game Sunday against Long Beach State. A&M junior centerfielder Steve Truitt said he also was appreciative of the Aggie crowd. “If we’re down, they help us come back and stay focused,” he said. This is Johnson’s 11th appear ance in postseason play since he began his head coaching career at A&M. In 1993 he took the Aggies to a 1-2 finish in the College World Series. The first game of the Super Re gional is scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. Clemson’s Mike Paradis (6-1, 4.43 ERA) is slated to face Aggie junior Casey Fossum (10-6, 3.39) on the mound. Saturday’s 7 p.m. match-up will see Tigers pitcher Ryan Mottl (4-7, 5.58) go against A&M junior Chance Caple (8-4, 4.21). A third game will be played Sunday afternoon at 2 at Olsen Field if needed. In other Texas Super Regional action this weekend, Baylor Uni versity will host Oklahoma State University in Waco and Rice Uni versity will play Southwestern Louisiana State University in Houston. National Super Regional match-ups (1) Miami vs Wake Forest (2) Florida St. vs Auburn (3) CS Fullerton vs Ohio St. (4) Baylor vs Oklahoma St. (5) Alabama vs LSU (6) Stanford vs USC (7) Texas A&M vs Clemson (8) Rice vs SW liter ion E* is Iditor ony 0® puck* national' rsafeS 1 " i. fiistt®! e ,. Toi»t Want to ^TK,* O I I » Motivate The Class of 2003? 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