European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes april a secret baseball files no longer secret by Dave Anderson new York not their secret files Are no longer in the Elias sports Bureau began supplying major league baseball teams with computerized each several Hundred pages the re ports detailed the performance of every major league player in specific game based on the presence or absence of base their position on the bases and the inning and the but now this years reports Are available to the Public in the Elias baseball Collier a 407page Monument constructed by Seymour Steve Hirdt and Peter Hirdt to what baseball fans treasure More than do those of any other sport the significance of like All such the Elias baseball analyst tells you More than anybody really wants to but somewhere in All those numbers is something that some body wants to for new York fans anticipating opening the analyst raises two will the now 20yearold Dwight the mets develop into another Bob or will he deteriorate into another Gary Nolan or Wally Bunker would the Yankees be better off using Willie Randolph As their Lead off Man instead of Rickey Henderson in dazzling the National league with his 179 record and 276 strikeouts in 218 innings last Gooden was Only the fourth Pitcher in major league history to work More than 200 innings in a season at the age of in one Gooden was robbed of his proper acclaim because of his age and because he was a Steve Hirdt Gooden averaged a record strikeouts per nine two thirds of a strikeout higher than Nolan Sandy Bob Feller and Walter Johnson in their what we dont know is How his Arm will react to but we do know that of the three other pitchers with More than 200 innings at age says Peter two developed Arm a husky was 195 with a earned run average for the Baltimore orioles in 1964 As a Rookie he had 96 strikeouts in 214 in each of the next two years he won 10 games and in 1969 he was 1211 for the Kansas City royals with a career High of 130 but 1971 was his last then Only he finished with a 6052 career also a husky had a 148 record with a earned run average for the Cincinnati reds in 1967 As a Rookie he had 206 strikeouts in 226 the most strikeouts he would Ever he had an 187 record in 1970 in each of three later seasons he won 15 but at age after being traded to the California he was through with a 11070 career but then there was Bob who joined the Cleve land indians in 1936 As a 17yearold Iowa he had a 53 record that season and a 97 record the next at the 185pound right hander had a 1711 record with 240 strikeouts in 277 but for that was merely the at age 20 in he was 249 with 246 strikeouts at 21 he was 2711 with 261 strikeouts at 22 he was 2513 with 260 he missed the next three seasons because of Navy duty during world War then rejoined the indians late in the 1945 season for a 53 the next he had a 2615 record with 348 then a major league with a 228 record As late As he pitched until he was finishing with a 266162 record and strike outs even though world War ii had deprived him of three prime the mets Davey is Wise in plan Ning to use Gooden with four Days of rest instead of Gooden is Only As Good As his treat that Arm with the respect it As for the their new Centerfield is considered baseballs Ideal Lead off but when the Yankees open in would he be better batting behind Willie Randolph instead of in front of him with the Oakland athletics last Henderson batted when leading off an but when not leading off an he batted mean had an on base average of when leading off an put that on base ability of Randolph As a Lead off Man ahead of hendersons higher average when not leading off and the top of the Yankees batting order might produce More were not inventing new categories in this Seymour Siwoff were simply examining the old in examining old the analyst has not Only defined what a clutch hitter it also has defined the Best clutch hitters during the 10 seasons of these previously secret stats Eddie Steve Garvey and Reggie Jackson As if october needed by detailing a batters production in a pressure Situa from the seventh inning on with his team tied or trailing by three runs or less or four runs if the bases Are the analyst has created its definition of a clutch the True clutch the analyst is he who demonstrates a greater degree of improvement when the game is on the since joining the Baltimore orioles in the 1977 sea Murray batted in such clutch 25 Points higher than his career Garvey has batted a clutch a 10point increase Over his career Jackson has batted five Points higher than his career eos Pilot out of work and if Weaver Busy doing what he wants West Palm a Earl Weaver Hast attended a Baltimore orioles game yet this but he intends Hes too he doing whatever i want to when 1 want to do that playing puttering in his Garden and going to dinner with his i was going to go to the stadium to Weaver but i played in a Golf tournament Over the 1 played 27 holes 27 holes and today i played 18 More with a Friend of in there just Arent enough hours in the Weaver spent seasons managing the he won an average of games each year until retiring after the 1982 sea making Baltimore the most successful franchise in baseball during that last year he worked As a color commentator in 23 games for a ctr before being re now Hes out of work and enjoying every minute of lets say you had an income of a month and you had to spend Weaver what would you want to do would you want to stay Home with your go a photo retired Earl Weaver not enough hours in Day to the club and play a Little then come Home at night and go out to dinner with your wife or would you want to go to work i enjoyed but it was Weaver lives on the seventh Fairway of the West course at the country club of some he he never even puts on a pair of Street i sit around in the morning with my bedroom slippers when i get a game of Golf i go out to the get into the Golf slip on my spikes and drive out to the Weaver when i come i just drive the cart in the garage and put my slippers Back who is said he would go Back to work Only if he ran out of he says he turned Down six offers to one for More than Ive said this if i Ever have to say to my we cant afford then i go Back to Weaver it takes a lot of Money to get up out of bed every morning and do exactly what you want to when youre you cant spend any when i was id go a whole week sometimes without spending although he has no desire to get Back into baseball he wont Rule out the possibility of that desire i dont know if ill get the itch he but in much better off now than when i was going Down to Miami where the orioles train every Weaver signed a professional contract to play baseball when he was 17 years that was greatest thing in the when i graduated from High school and signed a pro baseball Weaver i worked my Way up from class d Ball to triple As a player and a i was in the minors for 10 that an awful Long but i loved but As soon As i quit playing and became a it was you get a thrill when you hit a Home but that not there in you get a feeling of satisfaction when you win a but the thrill int he said he want really disappointed when he lost the television Job last septem but the income from Abc for the amount of work i did was id like that he both he and the network realized that television was not in weavers future i didst want to make a career out of and Abc knew Weaver i was Happy being an going to the Ball Park 23 times a but certainly what i did want Worth the Money i was contraction under Way in chivas first Golf venture peking a a japanese Surveyor inspected a Sandy tree farm on the Banks of the Chaibai River Northeast of while peasants Hoed nearby Fields for Spring the unlikely an hours Dusty drive from the is destined to be come the 36hole peking Golf a sino japanese joint venture being designed by Golf course architects from san even More unlikely in a land where officials refer to 72 pairs instead of Par 72 is that a rival course is already under construction about 15 Miles away the Ming tombs Golf and country another japanese joint the Golf Boom is not initially aimed at not even the Rich peasants mentioned in the press under the governments current Market Force economic its for tourists and resident foreigners in a recreation explosion that will provide peking with a Kublai Khan equestrian Disneyland Type amusement Park and underwater san Jose Golf architects Bradford Benz and Jay Michael Poellot will design the million peking Golf club near with two 18hole the China sports service construction starts in May with a mid1986 opening Golf is virtually unheard of in and we want to promote of for chinese cant possibly afford said the firms Chen China Hopes to enter International petition in and the club will be a training he peking has been chosen As the site for the 1990 asian and Chen said he Hopes Golf will be added As an official chivas first Golf course is at Huangdong adjoining portuguese Macao and accessible to Hong it opened last with membership fees of More courses Are planned in Tianjin and Dalian in North