European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                22 the stars and stripes thursday july 12, 1990 1990 All Star game Dawson i from wire reports Happy birthday Andre Andre. Dawson Ccle rated his 36th birthday on tuesday by signing a one year contract through 1991 with an Dawson. Option year for 1992 with the Chicago cubs. Then he went out and played in his seventh All Star game. _ Dawson who came to the cubs with hat in hand in 1987 after 10 outstanding seasons with Montreal received $2.1 million this ear. The new pact is estimated to in for $3.3 million. If the cubs exercise the 1992 option Dawson will receive another $3.3 million. A Dennis Gilbert a Beverly Hills baseball agent whose clients include Jose Canseco and Bret Saberhagen is under investigation by the major league baseball players association according to a source close to the Union. The main allegations Center on Gilberts alleged violation of agent regulations. Should the Union find him in noncompliance he could be de certified As a baseball agent and not allowed to negotiate contracts for players. The allegation the Union is most concerned with deals with Gilberts alleged method of soliciting clients and retaining them with inducements. Other sports agents have complained that Gilbert has allegedly Given or loaned Money or gifts to players in order to sign them. The Union prohibits inducements to prevent players from becoming financially dependent on agents. A Seattle mariners owner Jeff Smulyan acknowledged he asked a television station to help pay for a free agent first baseman but do Nied that he demanded the Deal or used a intimidation tactics a to try to gain control of a contract to televise games. The team sued Tacoma based a St last month seeking to escape from a three year Deal on the grounds the station failed to build a Region wide network to broadcast mariners games from Alaska to Utah. In a counterclaim the station said mariners owners used a intimidation tactics Quot to try to gain control of the contract. The station said that Smulyan among other things demanded that a St put up a in excess of $1 million to a a buy Nick Esasky of the Boston red sox. Esasky signed with the Atlanta braves last november. A baseball players who use smokeless tobacco products such As snuff face a significant risk of developing potentially pre Caneer Ous Mouth lesions according to a study of 1,109 major and minor leagues. The lesions were found in 46 percent of players who regularly used snuff or chewing tobacco according to the study in the latest journal of the american medical association. The Yankees Steve sax 6 is Safe As the Ball gets away from the Chicago cubs Ryne Sandberg in third inning tuesday night. Ign moves to no Chicago apr Roger Craig managed the All Star game like a world series. The result was the same. Craig made every move he could think of for the National league but it Wasny to quite enough to prevent a 2-0 loss. His hitters went cold and his pitchers eventually failed in the clutch a an a too fam Diar curse for the san Francisco manager who now has lost both the fall and Midsummer classics to Oakland manager Tony la Russa. A that was one reason i wanted to win Quot Craig said. A it seems like every time we play he beats me. He a a Good manager but in a not bad  he was Good tuesday for six innings. Craig made All the right moves keeping the National league in a scoreless tie. He called for intentional walks shuffled his lineup dug into his bullpen. Craig a most important move to the bullpen backfired on him in the seventh. Craig brought strikeout specialist Rob Dibble the chief of Cincinnati so Nasty boy relievers into the game to face Julio Franco after a 68-minute rain delay with the Al threatening. Franco lined Dibble a third pitch for a two run double a the Only extra base hit of the game a producing the 2-0 margin. Craig told the no players before the 61st All Star game that he  sit Back. Craig lived up to his word giving the game its few moments of excitement Early in the third Craig chose to walk Wade Boggs with Steve sax on second and two out. In doing so he chose to have Ramon Martinez pitch instead to Jose Canseco who helped Lead Oakland to a world series Victory Over the giants last fall. The strategy worked when Canseco forced Boggs at second. Craig tempted Fate again in the sixth when the Al got Boggs to third and Canseco to second with two out. Craig had Dave Smith intentionally walk Ken Griffey or. And brought in Jeff Brantley to face Cecil fielder with the bases loaded. The first pitch made the move a Success. Fielder flied out to Center. Craig a Luck ran out in the seventh. With Brantley still pitching Sandy Alomar Slid into first base to beat out an infield single to Short and Lance Parrish singled to Send the Cleveland Catcher to third. The rain gave him time to think about it. He was going to stay with Brantley but the1 reliever developed a stiff Side during the break so Craig went to Dibble whose third pitch made All Star history. Franco lined an 0-2 pitch to the Ivy covered Wall in right Center scoring Alomar and Parrish. A it was a fastball Down the Middle a Dibble said. A it was a bad 0-2 pitch. My wife could have gotten a base hit. You throw a bad pitch like that  get a base hit. They re All stars a a sluggers Sanctuary offers few hit thrills a Al manager Tony 1 Russa and Umpire de Montague Chat during rain delay. Chicago apr the Only thing confined at the Friendly confines was offence. When Wrigley Field had its Chance to Shine in tuesday nights All Star game the Ballpark was a big bust. A 16-Mph w ind coming in off Lake Michigan and rain that caused a 68-minute delay in the seventh inning turned what was once a sluggers Sanctuary into a pitchers Paradise and contributed to one of the most Boring All Star games Ever. Quot it Wasny to a hitters Duel a said Philadelphia s Len Dykstra who had one of the National leagues two hits a record Low for All Star play. A it was a Tough hitters night with the weather  there was just one extra base hit in the american leagues 2-0 Victory a Francois two run double off Rob Dibble in the seventh inning just after the rain delay. The no managed Only two singles by will Clark in the first inning and Dykstra in the ninth. Clark said the rain not the wind was the biggest cause of the batters miseries. A the rain put a Damper on everything a Clark said. A the wind did no to Hurt everybody As much As the rain did. When it s raining the lights Light up the rain and make it hard to  Andre Dawson plays in Wrigley Field All the Lime. He know How Good it can be for hitters when the wind blows out and How bad things can get when the wind blows in. A we expected it to be a pitchers game Quot Dawson said. A one of these years Well give the fans a  since most of the hitters Haven to faced the pitchers from the other league during the regular season the pitchers usually get an extra Edge. A it was scary a Toronto a George Bell said. A it was raining and you be got pitchers throwing the Ball 90 Miles an hour. It can slip out of their hands. You can pull a muscle out