European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday March 5, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 Parker Holland will play pay by the associated press Dave Parker the Cincinnati reds slugging outfielder and Al Holland the new York Yankees Relief Pitcher said monday they would comply with the penalties handed Down by baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth and avoid suspensions for their involvement in drugs. At the reds Spring training Camp in Tampa Fla., Par Ker wearing a Han band that said Ueberroth said he plans to play this year and would leave any challenges to the commissioner s decision up to the major league play ers association. Parker and six other major leagues were handed one year suspensions by Ueberroth unless they agreed to pay 10 percent of their salaries to drug rehabilitation pro Grams accept periodic drug testing and perform Public service work. In Parker s Case his Fine would amount to about $120,000. Parker testified in a Federal drug trial in Pittsburgh last year that he used cocaine while with the pirates the club he left As a free agent after the 1983 season. He said he stopped using the drug before signing with the reds in december 1983. Last year Parker batted .312 with 34 homers second in the National league and led the league in runs batted in with 125 and in doubles with 42. At the Yankees training Camp in fort Lauderdale Fla., Holland said he would accept Ueberroth s penalties As an alternative to a 60-Day suspension. Holland was one of four players who could be suspended for two months under the commissioner s action on drug involvement. However those players instead can agree to donate five percent of their 1986 salaries to a drug Preven Tion facility or program random drug testing for the remainder of their careers and 50 hours of drug related Community service this year. I wanted to wait until i had All the ins and out of it Holland said. Now i have a grasp of everything that happened. I feel part of it in t fair but you can t have your cake and eat it too. The most important thing is we want to put it behind us. We were Holland was the third of three Yankees penalized by Ueberroth to accept the commissioner s action. Previously infielder Dale Berra and Pitcher Rod Scurry said they would not Challenge Ueberroth s decision. In another baseball development reds outfielder Eddie Milner suffered an injured left wrist in a minor two car Auto Accident while in route to a team workout. After undergoing a rays at a Hospital and having the wrist wrapped in a plastic Bandage Milner participated in most of the daily workout skipping batting practice. First baseman Glenn Davis signed a one year contract with the Houston astros leaving the club with three unsigned players Catcher Mark Bailey infielder Bert Pena and Pitcher Julio Solano. Davis set an astros Rookie record with 20 homers in Only 100 games last year when he made the minimum salary of $60,000. He was asking for $160,000 for the 1986 season. The astros were offering $105,000. Salary terms were not disclosed. Veteran second baseman Jerry Remy trying to make a comeback after seven knee operations reported to the Boston red sox training Camp at Winter Haven Fla. With swelling in his left knee. For or. Baseball his no. 24 was enough by Dave Anderson Scottsdale Ariz. Not out near the Chain link Fence in right Center Field at Indian school Park where the san Francisco giants go through their Early Spring training drills Willie Mays was talk ing with Jeff Leonard. When you go into the Fence you use the Fence to come Back throwing Mays said. Don t let the Fence use unlike most major league teams the giants Don t put a player s name on the Back of his Prange and Black trimmed uniform. And with what has recently been a lease on last place in the National league West the giants Don t have Many players with familiar numbers. But for Mays his 24 was enough. When he emerged earlier from the clubhouse door marked coaches with his Black Cap with the of tilted Back on his head he had been surrounded immediately by autograph seekers. One to a customer he had said. When the giant players appeared a few minutes later he looked around for the out fielders then joined them in his new role As a special assistant to Al Rosen the giants new president and general manager. The warning track he was saying now to Leonard out in right Center Field is just what it says it is a As they talked Mays who played the Fence As Well As any outfielder Ever has remembered having seen Leonard crash into the Fence with his hands and arms extended to soften the Impact. You can break your wrist doing that Mays said. You Don t always have time to turn but when the warning track lets you know you have time you be got to Leonard hurried toward the Fence pre tending to catch a Fly Ball with his Back to Home plate. Quickly the 30-year-old out fielder turned his body so that he backed into the Fence then let the Fence s recoil propel him toward the plate As he pretended to throw to a cutoff Man. That s it Mays said. Now you Are coming off the Fence All these years Leonard said nobody Ever told me that All these years Mays was t there to Tell him. And now at age 54, More than a dec Ade after having hit the last of his 660 Home runs Mays appears More comfortable in his role As an instructor. As a mets coach and roving minor league instructor from 1974 until 1979, he was Little More than an Orna ment. He disenchanted his employers As Well As the players by leaving Shea stadium before a game began. I tried to explain that to or. Grant he said referring to Donald m. Grant then the mets chairman. Not playing was eat ing me up. I could t watch the games. It was hard to adjust to not playing. You never really accept it but i be adjusted Mays sounded As if he were More Corn Willie Mays Back in a giants uniform gives tips on playing the Outfield to Jeff Leonard at the giants training Camp. A photo portable wearing a giants uniform again rather than a mets uniform or any other uniform. He began wearing a giants uni form As a Rookie in 1951, the year that Bobby Thomson s Home run climaxed the Little Miracle of Coogan s Bluff and he wore it in new York and san Francisco until he was traded to the mets in 1972. The difference he said is that i was a tradition with the giants but i was t a tradition with the that s the reason Rosen wanted Mays to be around the giants to be in uniform out on the Field before As Many games in candlestick Park and to make As Many Road trips As he can fit into his schedule. Willie is More than or. Giant he s or. Baseball the giants president said. He s helping our outfielders and hell be helping our hitters. There was no greater Rosen spoke from personal experience. As the Cleveland indians third baseman in the 1954 world series he was on first base in the eighth inning of the opener at the Polo grounds when Vic Wertz drove a Fly Ball off Don Liddle Over Mays head. I saw it All the Way Rosen recalled. I was past second base when Willie outran the Ball and caught it. I had to hurry Back to before joining the giants late last season Rosen had been the Houston astros Gener Al manager and earlier the Yankees presi Dent and general manager. Coincidentally he had recommended Mays for the Job As a Public relations ambassador at Bally s Park place Casino in Atlantic City that prompted Bowie Kuhn then the commissioner to ban the Hall of Famer from any salaried connection with baseball Billy Weinberger called me Rosen said referring to Bally s Boss and asked me to give him a sports name who would be Good for that Job. I told him to get Willie then i helped negotiate Willie s about a year ago commissioner Peter Ueberroth rescinded the ban on Mays along with a similar ban on Mickey Mantle also employed by an Atlantic City Casino. Then last september at the Pittsburgh drug trials John Milner a former mets first baseman outfielder testified that Mays kept a bottle of what ballplayers called red juice an amphetamine laced liquid in his mets locker. I Don t know Why Milner would say that Mays was saying now. But after Milner said that i called up or. Jackson in san Francisco who gave that liquid to me. Or. Jackson told me he gave me that liquid maybe twice a year when i got tired. It was like cough syrup. I guess the commissioner saw a to tape i did and was convinced there was nothing to it. The commissioner never said anything to me about Mays was not mentioned in the commissioner s disciplinary drug statement Las Friday. I thought the commissioner did the right thing in his decision on drugs Mays said. He left something open so the players could play without being one of those players was Leonard his Pupil now in Spring training. Communication the three outfielders need to communicate with each other Mays was saying to Leonard. That communication starts from the Catcher then it goes to the infielders then to the Alvin dark was the giants shortstop during the Early years of Mays career. Before every pitch Alvin would put his right hand behind his Back and let me know what the pitch was. He d stick out one Fin Ger for a fastball two fingers for a breaking Ball. That s How i got a jump on the
