European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday july 11.1986 the stars and stripes Page 23. Vis1 commentary but where s the fairy tale ending struck out for Mcdowell in six of the Saddest words in baseball. Six words to describe the denouement of a baseball legend. Mickey Mantle struck out for Sam Mcdowell inthe eighth inning of the 1968 All Star game. You could look it up. Better to read about it than have seen it. Pathetic is the word. The switch hitting slugger walked slowly to the plate. Back in his younger Days he would have started the game. But the Days when his Rabbit legs Cannon and whip like Bat terrorized opponents were gone. Still when he left the dugout for the Batter s Box. The fans in the Astro dome stood and applauded the Yankee great. But there was nothing to applaud a few minute Slater. Tom Seaver was on the Mound and the aging Yankee outfielder was no match for the Youthful met hurler. Mantle walked Back to the dugout with nothing to show for his Effort. By 1968, Mantle was used to that. Steve Carllon was one of the players who watched Mantle s mind Varna. Carlton was 24 years old then trying to establish himself in the cardinals had pitched one inning of shutout Ball in the game and watched from the dugout As Mantle flailed Way in the eighth inning. It has been 18 years since that game. Mantle re tired by that year s end after hitting .235. Carlton is still pitching. Why there s no Point asking him. Carlton who has Yetto realize what the press says is usually right but often irrelevant does t usually speak to the press although he broke his silence last week when the giants picked him up. His record used to speak for itself but like mantles his last two years have been nothing to talk about. Lefty As he is known around the game use to demand lots of explanation. How do you explain 318 career victories 5,000 innings 55 shutouts,4,000 strikeouts six 20-Gamc seasons six one hitters and four by Young awards those numbers speak for themselves. But it s not Carlton s past that s up for present commands attention. It s the sort of attention every player fears that reserved for aging veterans at the end of the line. For Yean Carlton seemed to have found base Ball s Fountain of youth. While younger players were forced to find other lines of work Carlton continued to make big Bucks working from the Mound. In 1982, at age 38, he posted a 2j-11 Mark with the Phillies the team that acquired him in a 1972 Trade for right hander Rick Wise. Rumours of Carlton s demise surfaced in 1983when he slipped to 15-16. But the National league Pennant winners still figured that Carlton could Holdback the hands of time. As the clock ticked away in 1985, so did lefty effectiveness. He spent most of the season on the disabled list where he did less damage to Phila Delphia than when he took to the Mound. He finished the Campaign at 1-8, but neither he nor the Phillies wanted to admit that Carlton s time had starting the 1986 season at 4-8, the going nowhere Phillies released him Only to see the maybe we be got a Chance giants ask for his serv marked Carlton s Mound debut for the gains. The stage was set for. One of those baseball fantasies. Could the Veteran hurler in his first appearance in a new uniform show his old stuff against St. Louis More than 40,000 paid their Way to find they saw won t be found in a record Book. No decisions Are rarely recorded except in Small print in a baseball Box score. That s where Carlton s Hing line will be found a 3 a inning Effort marked by eight hits two walks and three earned was a sad opening for Carlton s closing chapter. It would have been More fitting had left mowed Down the no champs for nine innings Whiz zing fastballs and curve balls past players 20 year younger than he. Carlton like Mantle after the 1 968 All Star game will have a few More chances at glory. The giants paid plenty for Carlton s services and would like Roget something for their investment. But like the Yankees in 1968, the giants have paid a lot of Money for a player whose moments of glory Are a thing of the past. . Blanks o a snaps losing Streak by the associated pres Kansas City to. Is did t have the same National Impact As the birth of Drew William Saberhagen last october but the Kansas City royals have goo reason to remember the Day Brandon Neal Jackson was october a Day after his son was born Bret Saberhagen pitched the Roy als to an 11-0 Victory Over the St. Louis cardinals and the world wednesday night is hours after 8-Pound, 8-ounce Brandon first saw the Light of Day the royals saw some Light at the end of the Tunnel when proud papa Danny Jackson teamed with Bud Black on a three hitter blanking the Baltimore orioles 3-0 and snapping Kansas City club record 11 game losing d almost forgotten How Good it feels to win said infield or Greg was the first Victory for the royals since june 26, when they beat oakland9-2. That was almost As Long As Jody Jackson was overdue. She had gone tothe Hospital five times with false labor As doctors revised their estimate of bran Don s arrival from june 24 to july 2. I d have to say my wife was More Al Roundup overdue than the team Jackson i know How great it feels for every body to gel this losing Streak behind , s4, allowed All three Balti More hits while walking three and strik ing out three. Black came in with two on and none out in the seventh and Pitche Whitless Ball the rest of the Way. I d had about three hours sleep an that s not much on a Day you re pitch ing Jackson said. I got Home about 1o clock tuesday night and took Jody to the Hospital about 3 30. The baby Waskom a Little before 7 . I got Home about 9 and slept until about Bordle 3-1, making his first Start after 26 Relief appearances allowed sin Gle runs in the first third and sixth in other Al games Angels 6, Brewers 1milwaukee Don Sutton 8-5, and Donnie Moore combined on a six hitter As California won its. Fourth straight and opened a in game Lead Over second place Texas in the Al West. The Victory was the sixth straight and303rd of his career for Sutton. Who Al Lowed one run on four hits in 7% 5, rangers 4 Arlington Texas Mike Page a Rulo hit a three run Homer in the fourth inning and Dave Righetti pitched out Ofa bases loaded none out Jam in the ninth to lift new Yankees took a 4-3 Lead against Jose Guzman 8-9, in the sixth on Clau Dell Washington s two out rib single and made it 5-3 against Mitch Williamson the eighth on a walk and Dave win Field s Pinch hit double.redsox7,a s6 Boston third baseman wad Boggs atoned for two costly errors with three hits and Boston scored six times inthe fourth inning to erase a 4-0 deficit. Rookie Jeff Sellers 3-3, survived thre Boston errors and scattered six hits Over 7vi innings. Joe Sambito retired All five batters he faced for his ninth save. Bine jays 6, mariners 5toronto Cliff Johnson keyed Toronto s three run rally in the eighth inning with a two run Pinch hit single. Bil Caudill 2-0, was the Winner. Mike Moore 5-8, took the 6, while sox 3 Chicago Joe Carter hit a two run double and Mel Hall followed with a two run Homer in the fifth inning while Julio Franco went a for a and Phi Niekro scattered six hits for his third consecutive Victory evening his recordat6-6. Cleveland entered the fifth Trail ing 3-2. Tony Ber Nazard and Franco started the Rall with one out singles Julio Franco and Carter s double chased loser Richard Dotson 7-8. Hall greeted Bill Dawley with his 15th Homer. Tigers 7, twins 0minneapolis Jack Morris 8-6. Pitched a six hitter. Lance Parrish hit two Home runs and Darnell Coles also homered. Parrish s homers gave him 21for the season tying him for the major league Lead with Oakland s Jose Cansec and Toronto s Jesse Barfield. Free based Coke killed Bias official says Baltimore a University of Maryland basketball Star Len Bias died after apparently smoking a pure form of free based cocaine rather than from in Haling the drug in powder form the assistant state medical examiner said wednesday. Redness in the lining of Bias wind pipe caused by the inhalation of heat and unusual congestion in the Throat indicate Bias had free based the drug said or. Dennis f. Smyth the assistant medi Cal examiner. _ lining inthe Windpipe usually present in fire High concentration of the drug in the blood 6.5 milligrams per liter also pointed toward the use of free base Smyth said. It was believed earlier that bins had inhaled the drug in powder form. Smyth said it was not possible fro the autopsy to determine the method of free Basing used. Free base is manufactured by freeing the cocaine base from the adulterated powder form thereby reducing the melt ing Point of the drug and allowing the smoking of almost pure cocaine vapor. Bias suffered a seizure collapsed an died june 19 in his dormitory room just two Days after the Champion Boston cel tics made him their first round Choice. The Maryland medical examiner or. John Smialek said cocaine interrupted the electrical activity to Bias brain end ing the flow of signals to the heart an causing it to Stop beating. A water pipe which is commonly use to smoke free based cocaine was found in a dumpster behind Bias dormitory. Yale h. Caplan the slate Lexicology strho tested the water pipe said it showed no traces of the drug but added that would be expected when free based co Caine is smoked at its maximum efficiency police found eight Grams of powdered cocaine in Bias car. In the garbage bin outside his dormitory police also recovered straws containing cocaine residue that apparently were used to inhale the drug and a Small Glass vial containing150 milligrams of hard cocaine chips or pellets Caplan said. The Washington Post reported tha Caplan also said tests of the cocaine found in the vial indicated that it Proba Bly was not crack. Crack an increasingly popular form of free base cocaine resembles Small Pel lets. It is cheaper and easier to produce than earlier forms office base which re quire larger quantities of powdered co Caine Anda solvent such As Ether. More than 70 prospective witnesses Are being called to appear before a grand jury looking into Bias death As Well a drug use on the University of Maryland s College Park Campus. The grand jury ses Sion opens july 21
