European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday april 15,1989 baseball from Page 23 Are they take up a Small quota two spots in every lineup. Thai leaves plenty of room for american players mostly army Guys. A few air Force players arc Avail Able after Safe s Continental sports conference killed baseball in 1988. American interest in baseball plus an s Headquarters Here Are just d Cou ple of reasons Helmig Frankfurt s franchise. Frankfurt is an International City he says. There arc a lot of baseball play ers Here they have a Nice Field and pc Ole Here wanted baseball Back. Frankfurt is critical for the league itself and for the popular i y among germans. Frankfurt is a known cily throughout the the old giants folded after the 1983 season partly because their sponsor a laundry outfit called ape lost its Mili tary contract and moved stateside we lost our bus lost our Money lost it All Quick remembers Don Sullivan. Sullivan played for the giants from 1981 to 8j. He left the army last year and now he s a 32-year-old Center fielder with his old am shocked we Gol military help says Sullivan. All those years we had players hut not support. This year we have support. If we get the players we 11 be All right.". Helmig approached the Frankfurt Mil itary Community last year and persuaded it to finance Field Upkeep buses Umpire fees and entry fee into inc league. Helmig figures that s about for a s also seeking a commercial sponsor and nearly landed american airlines the Amigos for instance receive fund ing from Mannheim construction company s3, to Juls Toronto Jimmy key pitched a to hit shut out and Nelson Liriano broke a scoreless tie with a two qut two run single in the seventh As Toronto won its Home , 2-1, retired the first 11 batters until he bobbled the throw on George Drell grounder to first m the fourth. Key struck out eight did t Issue a walk Ana had Ano i incr until Kevin Feilzer led off the seventh with a solid single to Center. That snapped a string of 12 straight hit less innings by the Mcgilt who had three singles led off the Toronto seventh with a single to Center off Charlie Liebrandt 0-1, and Bob Brynly walked with one out. Manny be moved them up when he grounded out to third on a hit and run play and Llano grounded his single Between third and Short for the two runs. The jays added a run in the eighth when Kell Gruber led off with his third single of the Day off reliever Jeff Montgomery and stole second. He went to third on Jesse Barfield s grounder to Short and score when he beat Brett s throw Home on George Bell s ground Ball to firs the came was played before an opening Day record crowd of 46,028, seventh highest in club history and marked the 10th time in 13 years that Toronto won its Home opener
