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BY NONI SRIDHARA
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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.
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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
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