European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Guerrero finds his Garden of Eden tired of the old Are you had it up to Here with the pressures of the Job dread going to the office every Day afraid of what will happen next everyone knows what you a change of Sce a new Outlook on new a fresh usually this Calls for a trip to a Long Ocean a visit to the great cities of the South at Palm Springs or Scottsdale or maybe flying Down to Rio to bask under sugar a geographical that what Pete Guerrero he didst have to change time no change of he didst need a new Golf a matched set of lug he didst even need in he could throw it Pete Only had to move about 90 feet to get his new lease on but it was the most important hunk of real estate this Side of fifth Avenue for it was like going from devils Island to the Bois de from Hudson Bay to it was like lifting a 100pound Anvil from his Pete didst have to go to a timeshare Condo where Palm Trees Are waving and the surf is Pete just went to left some people May not think of left Field As a Paradise on its not to be ranked with the Moonrise Over Cladah or the greek Isles at its not even Piso to it looked like the Garden of or one of the great tourist Stop overs of the South Rodgers and Hammerstein should write a song about petes old position was not exactly like catch ing hot rivets in a pail or walking girders 80 stories but third base is not exactly the executive its the baseball equivalent of answering three phones at of being on 24hour of having dinner with the at third so to sleep with your clothes youre never More than 90 feet away from breaking your losing your even cracking your its a hardhat baseballs come out there at velocities up to 140 and there dipping and even the slow up photo left fielder Pedro Guerrero they need his Bat More than his Glove ones can make you turn your pop your knee or Jerk your Elbow its the boiler room of left on the other is a place where you can hear the Birds watch the grass theres very Little traffic you can Check out the pretty enjoy the fresh air and there Are Days you could bring a third base clutters up the you never know when that sly sneak at the plate is going to try to make a fool of you by dropping one Down the foul line at the last instant after faking hitting if you sneak cheat a step or you May find him hitting away after All and the Ball sailing right through your prize Guerrero remembers his Days at third the Way red Adair remembers Oil Well fires at it became a matter of Pride to him to get Good at it Pete it required hours away from the activity which he really excelled at striking a moving base Ball with a not a the precious time Pete should have been solving the slants of the batting practice he was solving the slants of hard fun Gocs hit at him by Monty Bas the dodger infield the record shows Pedro Guerrero became a quite skilled third and Napoleon might have made a Good ribbon and babe Ruth was a but it was Chipping away at the thing he really did Pete Guerrero is one of the great strikers of the Ball in maybe in but the dodgers were spending More time trying to make pie Traynor out of him than Henry it was like casting John Wayne As a faithful old Indian theres a punch line in an old football joke that if Calhoun aint got the you done made your first big if Pete Guerrero aint hitting a instead of trying to Icahn to catch the team done made its big it occurred to manager Tom Lasorda one Day at the end of May that one of the Best hitters in was batting with four Home 16 runs batted in and 18 runs it was at a time when the team was leaving so Many men on base the infield looked like a bus Lasorda called his third baseman and sent him on a Short voyage to a romantic 1 need your Bat More than i need your he told and an outfielder was to say nothing of a Pennant its a funny recalls last he was begging me to take him off third this he was beginning to get the hang of he didst want to he wanted the hotter Heads prevailed and Guerrero was Given the historic change of scenery every Over worked employee should Pete insists it was not a Case of if the team wants me to go Back to they pay me to play where they want me and that where id he insisted stubbornly in the locker room sunday when someone suggested it would take an act of Congress and a company of marines to get him Back to but in the month of Pedro out set the National league record for that month with 15 Home he batted close to for the putting him on third base is like putting Liz Taylor in a in in wondering whether i should get off this hot Corner and onto the society pages if that far that los Angeles times padres trying to win converts in Mexico by Hilmer Anderson san Diego up theres no de Nying Fernando Valenzuela of the Dodg ers is a hero in but the san Diego padres plan to become that country favorite there is no major league baseball in said Manny head of the padres mexican affairs so we Are considered the Home team the Effort has paid off in the form of brisk sales at their Tijuana ticket and a 25station radio network in the padres Are serious about the his panic he they should be nestled in the Shadow of los the location of san Diego makes Mexico an important element in the padres san Diego county has nearly two Mil lion but it is a virtual to the East is sparsely populated Imperial a Rural Region of desert and irrigated truck to the West is the Pacific there Are plenty of people in the los Angeles metro area to the but their attention is focused on the rival dodgers and the California so the padres looked South and saw a nation of baseball fans open for the there Are two million people alone in to which sprawls just across the Bor in the padres hired Castillo and launched an Active Campaign in Baja Cali fornia to capture some of that when i went deep into the Interior of Mexico for the first time i found the dodgers were kind of the Cas who added that san Diego in creased exposure was winning the mexican fans follow their idol he but we were kind of their favorite the season highlight film is dubbed in Spanish and Castillo appears every Spring on Mexico City television to show it and talk about the teams underprivileged mexican kids Are bused North to attend games while players and manager Dick Williams travel South of the Border to talk with the often through an they think its great that a manager would take the time to come across and say hello and sign Castillo theres not a Booster club per but i get a lot of support from the various Chambers of they Are forever bringing groups up the padres radio network today consists of one English speaking station and a Spanish network stretching from Tijuana to the guatemalan according to right now we Are talking to Nicara Castillo they would like to broadcast to All of Nehemiah has mixed emotions about future san Francisco a Renaldo Nehemiah said monday that International Amateur athletic federation panel ruling allowing pro football players to com Pete in track and Field has left him undecided whether to stay with the san Francis co 49ers or return to Ive waited three years for this ruling and now Ive got mixed emotions about what ill Nehemiah its a final and binding ruling that Al lows me to go Back to track right now if i he the question for me now is whether to play football and run track to Gether or give up one for the Nehemiah and his Ron said they Felt the Isaaf ruling was a spokesman for the athletics governing body of track and Field in the United said he believed the Isaaf Council must still approve Nehemiah is in the option year of an fou year contract As a wide receiver for the super bowl but he said he could quadruple his salary by returning to he set the world record of seconds in the 110meter High hurdles in a Threeman panel of the world sanctioning group for track and decided june 25 in Nehemiah favor on his Chal Lenge of Isaaf Rule according to Ollan tacs executive the Rule states that the Isaaf Council can declare eligible an athlete who com petes As a professional in one provid ing that the practice of that sport is of no direct help for any track and Field the arbitration panel of attorneys from Jamaica and Senegal concluded that football does not Aid a track and Field that ruling now goes before the Isaaf Council at its meeting in Greece july