European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary won talk to you so there All miss take a letter to the commissioner of All if you watch out for the spelling of his its a Mark it eyes ready dear commissioner its Only fair to warn you that there Are some people in baseball that in not talking to this in putting them and you on in not talking to Steve George Hen maybe Dave i Haven made up my mind Cecil a couple of Guys on the i cant think of their names right Brian Downing of the this last is kind of Tough because Ive always gotten along Well with Brian kind of liked in still talking to Pete Rose and Reggie i ask Steve Garvey How the kids Are All the with Cecil in sorry it had to come to Cecil asked for you these Are on a list of Guys who have announced they Are not talking to the and i think its about time they found out this is a two Way i you think writers dont have a slump you think there Arent nights when we think do i have to go to a locker and talk to these Guys again when they dont know How it is we dont have any training room to hide let me Tell you Ball players Arent the Only ones who have the thing we cant take ours out on the you think there Arent nights when i cant get around on a couple of easy adjectives you think we dont pop up a hanging adverb you think we dont dribble a modifying clause Back to the Pitcher get Good Wood on a transitive verb Only to have it die at the warning track you think our prepositional phrases dont pull a hamstring some columns Limp in like Pete i once got in such a slump i used two semicolons in one on my bad i run out of you think its Tough when a manager comes out to yank the Pitcher when Hes got Good stuff what about when the editor says Wail a dont you want to rewrite this junk and you say 1 got Good stuff i had a no hitter going when that Banjo hitting predicate was guessing curve on we cant sulk in the cant get dressed in the trainers room and sneak out the we got to suck it up and go downstairs and say what kind of a pitch was it you hit or As the Case May i May add other people in not talking to As the season Ive got my Eye on the whole left Side of the Cleveland for and one of these Days when George Steinbrenner in going to say no and hang in fed up with these i never once in my whole life said take a hike1 to an athlete who wanted to talk to and this is the thanks i get for let me ask you something let me ask them something where do you think baseball would be today if babe Ruth had refused to talk to reporters what if you find out what Mickey Mantle had eaten for or Felt about the infield Fly Rule in your paper in the morning ill Tell you where it would be about where soccer or softball arc in this baseball owes a lot to babe but it owes a lot to ring you think Dean would have jammed All those ballparks if Roy Stockton haunt let the world in on what a wonderfully Wacky character we were dealing with docs George Hendricks think All these million Dollar contracts arc handed out because the world needs people who can manage three hits every 10 times at Bat it May conic As a Shock to but tie world Doest even need another if he thinks the game itself is so intrinsically inter have him drop in on a Twilight league game in Visalia some or even a trip la game in Paw nobody would even notice whom George Hon Dricks want speaking americans have a right to speak or not speak to whom they my Point theres this symbiont tic relationship Between press and player that works Well for both for the publicity is part of a players often convertible later on in life when he cant Hil the curve quite apart from there is the obligation to the talk or television gives the game the big but Tele vision cannot make a lord its it did everything in could Wilh inc without the daily reams of free the daily chronicling of Star slugger As a Friend of the television might As Well beam Tysl i want it to be known that its not that these Guys Are not speaking to in nol speaking to one other thing i May strike this Tell them and see How icy like seasoned scribe los Angeles times Al from Page 21 Moore and Jim Gantner added rib Oglivie had a run scoring grounder in the Ruppert Jones singled Home the Angels first run in the California scored twice in the eighth on a two run Homer by Doug his twins orioles 4 Minneapolis Kent Hrbek Sec on Dinning grand his second grand slam Home run in four lifted Minnesota Over the twins filed a protest in the fourth inning after Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected for arguing after Minnesota Randy Bush made a running catch of Fred Lynns line Weaver spent several minutes arguing with after he was marched Bush in left Weaver was led Back to the dugout by two umpires and then bowed to the Minnesota manager Ray Miller announced his club would play the game under protest because starter Mike Smith was not allowed to warm up Dur ing the royals Yankees 4 Kansas Hal Mcrae and Willie Wilson stroked base loaded sin Gles to fuel a five run rally in the fifth inning that swept Kansas City past new it was Only the third loss in 11 games for the who had surged to within games of Toronto in the american league the checked on one hit through four broke through against Den Nis Rasmussen and Rich Bordi in the fifth to overcome a 30 Steve Balboni led off with a double and took third when Darryl Motley doubled on a Ball that bounced off the Glove of hard charging Cente fielder Rickey after Jim Sundberg struck Lynn Jones was hit by a loading the and Wilson singled Home two Bordi relieved and surrendered an rib single to Lonnie Smith that tied the game at George who began the night with the highest average in the majors at was walked intentionally after Frank White popped Mcrae singled Home two More Brett went 0 for 3 and had a 12game hitting Streak stopped As his average dipped to Henderson went 2 for 5 and took Over the batting Lead with a Mike who relieved starter Mark Gubicza with two outs in the pitched innings for the Dan Quisenberry worked the final yielding a on out triple by Scott Bradley and an rib groundnut by Henderson in the for his 19th White sox tigers 4 Chicago Carlton Fisk hit his league leading 26th Home Matching his career and Gene Nelson pitched seven shutout innings to lift Chicago Over Fisk led off the second inning with an upper deck Home giving Chicago a 1 0 Lead against Randy Fisk has hit eight homers since july eight of his last 13 hits have been Home Chicago has won six of its last seven games while Detroit has lost seven of allowed five relievers Juan Agosto allowed three runs on four hits in the eighth reliever Mike Stanton walked Barbara Garbey with the bases loaded in the Jerry Gleaton got the final out for his first rangers indians 1 Texas Edibe Mcdowell homered leading off the eighth in giving Texas a Victory Over Cleve Mcdowell connected on an 01 pitch from Vern for his sixth Home run of the Mcdowell also had two Yount selected new York up Robin who hit for the Milwaukee Brewers during Allstar monday was unanimously named the american league player of the was 10 for 17 Over four it didst take Lacy Long to make his Mark on Al by Gordon Beard Baltimore a after recovering from a thumb injury that caused him to miss the first 28 games of the sea it didst take Long for Lee Lacy to establish himself in the american As the Baltimore orioles launched a seven game Road trip in Minnesota monday the 36yearold outfielder was the leading hitter on the club with a aver and was just three a bats shy of qualify ing As the leagues fourth est in proud to be playing like this after coming from the National Lacy especially coming off the thumb in in not one to thrive on individual a bul Ive got to be Lacy was signed As a free agent by the orioles after he batted last season for the Pittsburgh he was impressive in the clubs Spring training Camp even after hurting his right thumb while diving to make a Lacy continued to play exhibition but the pain grew he finally underwent surgery for ligament and cartilage damage and Bone when he returned during the regular Lacy continued to favor the bandaged for the first few weeks he hit almost everything to the right Side of the playing the setback made me work even hard said who sprayed the Ball to All Fields during a career High 20game hit Ting Streak that came to an end under trying circumstances on with a Chance to drive in the tiebreak ing run in the seventh Lacy fouled off a 32 pitch that was wide of the strike he finally walked when the next delivery from Bud Black was Way Over his head As the Kansas City Pitcher tried to tempt the free the base on Only the 14th of the season for continued a rally that file photo Lee Lacy proud to be playing like this culminated with a Gam winning bases loaded double by Eddie despite his late Lacy already has had 22 multiple hit stroking four hits on four occasions and three hits in seven other during his 20game which fell just two Short of the club record shared by Murray and Doug do Lacy hiked his average 80 in a firm believer that i can do any thing i set out to Lacy pitchers dont get me i get myself if i do the right things at the ill get you try to thrive on and if you do youll accomplish a
