European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sports Seaver and Guidry the game in t Over by George Vecsey now York times there were lists f of Stiver remembered when he would come Back to the dugout i Ler Chr first inning do he would say to himself that s it. The  is Over. Forget  sometimes he  right and sometimes he was wrong but that was t the Point. The feeling was the main thing the feeling that everything was Good everything was working  he does t expect to Ever have that feeling again because that feeling was based upon the expectation of a nine inning game. But a starting Pitcher never forgets going out to the Mound and realizing he has total control. Ron Guidry and Tom Seaver did not forget that feeling during their Idle springtime. They wailed out the legalities and the financial questions and the phenom pitchers and the injuries to other people and now they will both try to recapture that total control that Only a starting Pitcher can feel. No athlete quite dominates a game the Way .1 starting Piker Dors the Way  remembers it not so much that you take it for granted but you know what is possible you know you be got your Best  the salaries Are not a bad Imp live and in these Days of advanced Medicine Tommy John with his bionic Elbow plugs Back from a Brief career As a College pitching coach to run up a fi-1 record with the Yankees much to his amazement. A plodding Lowboy like Rick Reuschel who missed All of 1982 with shoulder injuries pitched into the eighth for the pirates sunday before Don Robinson another repaired Pitcher lost the first game in Relief. And the list goes on of pitchers who blended courage and Gall and cunning Dennis Leonard came Back from the most major knee surgery for one season Steve Carlton keeps going like Hillary climbing my. Everest because it was there. Old gaffers like the Niekro boys keep Fobbing up the Knuck Leball wherever there is a spot on a Rosier Cleveland for Phil now Minnesota for Joe. Ron Guidry winding up to mow them Down in Days of old. Mets general manager Frank Cashen right asked Tom Seaver to come Home. They All remember what it is like to strut or trudge depending on their style to the Mound for the first inning and feel their Best pitch snap or hum or flutter whatever it does Best and thinking a la Seaver the game is Over and then doing it. In the Bronx and Queens this month two grand competitive pitchers heroes by any sports definition Wilt try again to dominate a game from the first Pilch. Their Battles will be As stirring on a personal level As any Pennant race. With Rickey Henderson on the disabled list and rumours swirling that Don Mallin Gly May have disk trouble Guidry made his first Start of the season for the new York Yankees tuesday night allowing six hits and four runs in four innings and losing a 7-2 decision to Toronto. The stadium rocked to chants of Gator Gator Gator when Guidry s Heater rescued the Yankees in the old Days. But he is coming off a 9-12 season and a Layoff this Spring after the Yankees would not sign him and every other club shunned him. Seaver says he thinks he could be ready to pitch for the new York mets by june 20, but first he must pitch in an exhibition this week before the mels officially sign him. With his suitcase packed for one More Road trip sunday he enjoyed being Back in the met clubhouse on his third tour of duly but he made no promises for his 42-year-old body. If i can t do it Fine i la retire he said. Obviously i think i can still Start or i would t be  he had almost Given up. The Yankees and iwo other teams turned him Down this Spring and the mels went out and got David Cone when Dwight Gooden went Down with cocaine problems. When the mets pitching staff started to crumble Seaver did not take each injury As a personal signal to stay by the Telephone he said. Of i d look at the Box scores to see How Bob Boone and Mario Solo and Carlton Pisk were doing Alt the people i be been associated with Over the years. I never thought something would happen. I was t really watching that Many games on  Guidry was farming in Louisiana. Seaver says he spent his springtime wondering where the hours  when he Calls did not come Seaver began making plans for the end of june a trip to England and France the first they had Ever taken in the warmer months. But then came the Call from mets general manager Frank Cashen bringing Back the memories of the first inning knowing everything was working. Last year Seaver had a 7-13 record with the Chicago White sox and Boston but his knee was injured and he had Arthuo Copic surgery after he could not finish the season. I did not get romantic about my last game which happened to be in Toronto Seaver said. Too Many outstanding things have happened. I was getting ready to retire looking for a Day after the Une draft but that was no big Deal. One Day is As Good As another to  asked if he had begun thinking like a Pitcher again Seaver smiled politely and said i be been pitching since i was 9. It s really like a computer. You push a Button and All thai information is  the fans have memories too. The remember watching Guidry and Seaver claim a Ball game with their first audacious pitches. New York fans will bi1 rooting for it to happen again not once but twice this month. 16 gripes Magazine june 11,1987