European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 14,1987 the stars and stripes Page 25 Low profile Kelly hits the Heights by Richardl. Shook Detroit up Tom Kelly is theman nobody seems to know. Kelly is a Low profile person in a High profile Job manager of the Minnesota twins. These Days a lot of people want to know just what kind of Man has masterminded Minnesota to the american league championship. The same Way he is around you that s the Way he is around us say Minnesota Center fielder Kirby puck Cut. I m Dull Kelly told a Small group of reporters on the eve of the playoffs. And i m  Kelly 37, keeps distance from his team reporters and even his coaches. But he s still bold in a managerial Way and has the same kind of understated wry humor As former twins and Kansas City royals manager Billy Gardner. His humor is More on the order of Ben Blyleven s fastball not Juan Bering cur s. Sneaky fast so it might get by you before you recognize it. I thought about setting up my pitch ing for the playoffs last week. 1 thought i d worry about winning the division first is an example of Kelly s humor. I know him strictly from the Field first base coach Wayne Terwilligor says. He s got a great sense of humor and he has great rapport with the  he s a very secure person inside Detroit manager Sparky Anderson said. He was Well schooled in the minor leagues. And he s a genuine person. He s not a Fly by night kind of Guy Kelly was a Veteran minor league Oul fielder who batted and threw left handed. In 1973 he batted .181 in 49 games with Minnesota. Two years later Kelly s managerial Ca reer began. His teams finished first in part of a split season three years in a Row and in 1983 he became the twins third base coach being named interim manager when Ray Miller was fired with 23 games left in the 1986 season. The Minnesota players the majority of whom played for Kelly either in the minors or in the Florida instructional league were nearly unanimous in urging club management to make him the per Manana it manager last october. That can sometimes be the kiss of death. Management often equates being Well liked with softness. This in t a team with a lot of egos Veteran Utility Man Roy Smalley said. This is a team in the True sense of the word. A manager with an ego would t work  he s always himself Minnesota third baseman Gary Caielli said. Retreats us like human beings. He does t put himself on a Pedestal like some Man agers do. And he always lets us know exactly what s expected of  he asks our opinion on things and he actually considers it Terwilligor said. Many limes he docs not go along with it but sometimes he docs. That s rare these  ill Tell you Terwilligor added he a Genius with lineups. He comes up with a lineup that sometimes looks like it does t make sense. But somehow the people he puts in As substitutes seem to come through the particular Day he plays  Kelly will undoubtedly loosen up As his career lengthens and he becomes More comfortable with the Public. Hut he s never going to be Hob Hope. Nor would he want to he. He is basically a quiet shy Type of person who prefers the backstage to the spotlight. That s the Way Gil Hodges was an Derson said. I knew him Well. He did that on purpose kept players away from him. He did not want them to know him. That s of if that s the Way he is. Waller Alston was that Way. I am not Anderson said smiling. Win from Page 21 could t compare the feeling of 1987 with that of 1979and 1970. In 1979, he was with the we Are family Pitts Burgh pirates who won the world series in seven games Over the Baltimore orioles. I was fortunate to be with the pirates that year said Blyleven who was greeted outside the dressing room monday night by former pirates Captain Willi Stargell. In 1970, the twins won the Al West their last division title until this year. Blyleven was a 19-year-Oldrookie who was reduced to tears when his game 3 Start was Given to Jim Kaat. Kaat was shelled by the Ori Oles and the twins were swept. I was a Young Punk then he said. I Learned How to win that year. And How to  he did t like the feeling of losing. So when he thought he had used up his Best stuff monday he asked pitching coach Dick such to take him out of the game after six innings. I fell that my breaking Ball was getting a Little Flat the cur Mcball artist said. I was Only going on three Days rest so i threw As hard As i could As Long As could. After six innings with three left handed hitters coming up i let the bullpen take  lefty Dan Schatzeder pitched one perfect inning Juan bar Coguer pitched two thirds of an inning allow ing diet Lemon s Solo Homer and Jeff Cardon pitched the final i / innings. The pitching of Blyleven and the performance of the much maligned twins bullpen were but two of the team s playoff Success stories. Other Minnesota Success stories against Detroit included third baseman Gary Gatti s attention grab Bing offensive and defensive performances the coming of age of shortstop Greg Gagne right fielder Tom Brunansky s nine Bis. And the managing of Rookie skip per Tom Kelly. Gatti was named series most valuable player. He went 6 for 20 with five Bis including two tone set Ting game 1 homers called for a key Pickoff throw from Catcher Tim Laudner in game 4, and made Sev eral big defensive plays. The map is Nice. But those things really Don t concern me he said As Brunansky doused him with a a photo Minnesota s Randy Bush slides safely across Home plate on Tom Brunansky s double in second inning monday cup of Beer during the twins jubilant dressing room Celebration. The people i want to know me knew me already. This moment. It s what i be been playing for the last 20 years. I love it. It s exciting and exhilarating. It s definitely a dream come True. Exciting. Awe some. Just a feeling of a lot of love for  Gagne was a defensive Star and also hit two important Home runs. He was asked if he was worried that the twins might be complacent after taking a 3-1 so Ries Lead sunday. I Don t know if i Ever get overconfident he  have enough trouble just getting  Brunansky who was sending blasts of Champagne cups of Beer and buckets of ice All Over the dressing room said things were in slow motion  in Mon Day s game until Cardon starting mowing the Tiger Down. When you re looking out there from right fill and they got runners on base everything seemed like i look hours and hours said Brunansky whom the twins tried to Trade during the of season. Once Jeff got that big first out Only then did things Start to pick up a Little  Kelly became the sixth Rookie manager Ever to win a playoff series. One of the others was Detroit s Sparky Anderson whom Kelly unquestionably out managed in this series. A lot of people Don t know what Tom Kelly is about Gatti said. He s  reds rep Ace Bergesch with sex expo pm Cook Tampa Fla. A Cincinnati reds majority owner Marge Schott named Murray Cook As general manager tuesday in an attempt to snap the team out of its second place rut. The reds officially announced at an evening news conference that general manager Bill Bergesch had been fired and replaced by Cook the former Mon Treal expos general manager. Reds officials were in Tampa their previous Spring training site for an an Nual organisational meeting this week. Cook. 46, worked Wilh Borg sch in the new York Yankees Organ Atton bar Gusch came to Cincinnati three cars ago after serving As vice president of baseball operations for the Yankees for five years. Cook was the expos general manage from sept. 5. 1984, until he resigned last aug. Ii. Bergesch was told of his firing sunday night by Schotl s attorney. The move stunned Bergesch. Who said he had no previous indication he would t return for 19k8. Nothing was Ever said to me to Indi Cate i Koukl not be  Bergesch said. In Tate we had Hail several meetings along the lines of getting ready Lor next  the filing was up Hng As Well As sur prising. Just one week ago Schott told the Cincinnati enquirer that Berge Schand manager Pete Rose were resuming for 1988. Bergesch said that when he spoke with Schott at the end of last week everything seemed just Fine. It was quite a Shock to  he Saidof the firing. Bergesch built the reds from a Sec Ond division club into a contender that finished second each of the last three sea sons. Schantl was unhappy with the dub failure to win the National league Vesi this car after feat Ling the division from late  until Lite August. A Corgi Seh was Antii i re for choosing not to  the i Lub s Oung stars for pitching while the san Francisco giants made several major deals on their Way to overtaking the reds and winning the division. He said he decided not to Trade away what he Calls the franchise s Crown jewels late in the season be cause he could t gel a fair Trade and a Pitcher would t guarantee a division mile for the slumping club. Arn sports l  am Hautio Waschull  league championship series san Krane Sui at St. Smut .inie7, if Nee Tessari . Thur Sdiey