European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Oldfield commentary a Greaf unknown athlete no in Brian Oldfield was dying for a he borrowed a it up a inhaled blew smoke out his nose and immediately Felt much the trouble he was in the Center of the Munich olympic stadium at the people were looking to say nothing of Abc and millions of viewers in America and Brian Oldfield was in the midst of the olympic shot put if anyone needed any further proof that smoking was harmful to Brian Oldfield could furnish it he should have asked for a Blindfold with that Cigar because it put him squarely before the firing f history stamped him Brian big As weight men Brian Oldfield is not the worst of the by any he didst throw a whole platoon of swedish cops into the icy Waters of a Stockholm he didst turn a japanese cab Over its he didst steal a steam shovel in Germany or hold a Friend by his heels out a hotel weight men Are the free spirits of athletic compete they Are Gruff loners usually Given to doing whatever it is they wish to when they wish to do they Are not team their Competition is solitary and is their life but Brian Oldfield raised the Art of alienating the establishment to such a degree that he May be the most unknown great athlete in the give Brian enough time and exposure and hell talk himself not Only into obscurity but a Friend once this would be quite an accomplishment because Brian is about As invisible As a Rocky Mountain Griz Zly which he most closely at 275 he wears the perpetually annoyed expression of a Guy who just dropped a Bookend on his big just because Oldfield has never thrown any cops off a River Bridge is not to say he wont if sufficiently but Oldfield is actually entitled to his faintly exasperated Brian Oldfield is a wronged figure of history of the dimensions of the doctor who fixed John Wilkes Booths the count of Monte Cristo or Joan of its not a role he Brian Doest go willingly to the he Calls his in that another headache for the establishment which likes its athletes without Brian in Point of has thrown the shot farther than any Man in in More than two feet farther but dont look for it in any of the record Brian Oldfield is the big  As far As the International governing bodies of track and Field Are Bob Beamon jumped almost two feet farther than anybody and they All but made him a statue in the Brian cant get a free Brian Oldfield threw the shot in a meet in Elpaso in May of that didst break the existing world it obliterated in Fortuna Brian was competing for something called the International track association at the it you should Pardon the a professional or it come you  want the kids to hear this paid its what the Ita did was charge admission to its track meets and distributed the proceeds among the if you cant see any difference Between that and what the tag or the Mcaa for All of go to the head of the the difference is the Ita did it they subtracted the this of was unforgivable to the reigning Amateur somebody had to and Brian was As Rood a candidate As someone said at a federation didst he smoke on the Field at the olym pics brians record throw which was made under allowable scrupulously measured and calibrated was not Only it was it never track and which Falls All Over itself certifying some mysterious Mark set in the bowels of Siberia by a soviet vaulter nobody Ever heard of before an audience of two Kab colonels and a Guy in a fur threw old Fields record As far As it could it was not quite far it made the guinness Book of albeit in the a a Section right by the goldfish swallowing and the number of students who could pack into a but even though lots of athletes left the folds of the Ita which soon left put ashes in their hair and were Oldfield want one of i went to see Melvin the but 1 got the one who is still trying to grow his first the Brian recalls 1 figured i better drop the Case before i got in the weird Hal life of Amateur Brian was eligible domestically but not International he dropped Over to a meet in san Jose in 1983 and casually tossed american record of 729 Only one Inch Short of the world did this mean he got in the olympics i went to court to get the International federation to let me in the they said it was to be continued on the Calendar till i said hey the olympics will be Over they said exactly adds Oldfield what was i going to do the olympics but Oldfield Hast disappeared he was highly visible last week at san Jose he was the one los Angeles times Al from Page 21 figured out what he wanted to its the Way the game is or should be Mcnamara i told Bill Buckner and Rice in the dugout that if the situation came up to Lay it to bunt until they had two strikes on the Home run made a loser of and a Winner of Ojeda pitched a Complete game and gave up seven including a two run Homer to Cecil Cooper in the third in other monday games tigers orioles 7 Detroit Lance who had homered lined an rib single to Cap a two run rally in the Bottom of the Lith inning to lift Detroit Over visiting Lee Lacys second Home run of the game had Given the orioles a 76 Lead in the top of the but Barbaro Garbey led off Detroit half of the inning with a Home run against reliever Sammy Stewart to tie the Lou Whitaker then singled and took second on Alan trammels after Kirk Gibson was intentionally Parrish singled to left Field for his third rib of the Baltimore sent the game into extra innings when Floyd Rayford hit his first Home run of the season with two outs in the ninth off Willie the tigers tied a major league record for sacrifice flies in one game with Yankees Blue jays 2 new York Bob making his first Start of the limited Toron to to one run on six hits Over 6to innings to win his first game of the was pressed into service because of a Back injury to Joe reliever Brian Fisher out of a seven thinning and Dave Righetti got the final four wild pitching a run Home in the for his 11th Doyle took the it was Only his ninth loss in his last 40 Deci Sions Over three As royals 1 Oakland Kansas City second baseman Frank White could not handle Bruce Boches bad hop grounder with two outs in the 10th and that Al Lowed Mike Heath to score the winning run from third with two Heath and Alfredo grif Fin singled against reliever Dan Quisen Bochte hit a hard grounder that bounced off Whites Glove and into right Field As Heath raced White was charged with an error on the Heath sent the game into extra innings in Oakland with a Pinch single with two outs in the eighth that drove in Dusty Baker from twins indians 4 Cleveland Tom Brunansky three run Homer highlighted a five run uprising in the second inning and Frank Viola pitched 716 innings to make the Early Lead stand up in with the score tied Tim Teufel led off the Minnesota second with a double and Greg Gagne followed with a Mark Salas delivered an rib single and Kirby Puckett also Jamie Easterly relieved starter Keith but Brunansky connected for his 14th gave up four runs on seven Angels rangers 1 Kirk in his eighth Start of the won his first major league game by scattering seven Mike Brown led the California driving in three runs with three Juan Beniquez had four hits for the visiting an and also helped spark a Bench Clear ing incident in the ninth inning involving Texas reliever Dave struck out seven and walked Only one in his first Complete Mike took the loss for the in the Gary Pettis singled and Stewart then threw a pitch that sent Beni Quez sprawling and also broke his Bat for a foul Beniquez hit the next pitch for a and when he got to third began Yankees baserunner Dave Winfield caught in a rundown by Toronto Tony Fernandez exchanging words with the two players started walking toward each other and both benches but no punches were thrown and no one was mariners White sox 4 Seattle Floyd Cele Brating his 30th birthday in where he enjoyed some Success earlier in his Ca pitched Chicago Over his ext am gave up three runs in five the White sox scored four times in the first inning against Matt with two Young gave up singles to Harold Baines and Ron Kittle and hit Carlton Fisk with a pitch to Load the Tom Paciorek followed with a single to driving Home and when mariners Catcher Bob Kearney let the relay get past him for an Kittle and Fisk also