European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday july 28,1990 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary to s a Manolo Nieves is a sucker for a Good can Cion. A a he screams his portly Frame uttering in unison against the latino beat behind him. Can Widnes the Spanish word for dances Are Nieves signature. Its Between innings in Mainz where the rangers Are in the midst of sweeping Frankfurt in the Tele 5 German Americast baseball league semifinals known by eve Yorie As simply or. Manolo is in full form. M Otie pass Here a few Cerveza there and or. Manolo is doing what he does Best. Aggravate the opposition. He Means Well. I mean he pc about As harmless As a Fly. But when this a puerto rican gets mad Man watch out. A called strike on Tea Doft hitter Barry Reese gets Manolo going a aaa. Mister Blue done to help him out mister Blue . Cd Mon baby. Less go baby. Less go Mainz three outs later Manolo is doing the lambada to my hammers a a can to touch this. A Manolo proves that it can be done. Go figure. Michael Jackson he ainu to. A it s in my blood a my puerto rican blood a he says jiggling his body left then right. The Mainz crowd gives him a rousing applause mixed with sarcastic catcalls. Welcome to Mainz Home of perhaps the craziest loudest wildest fans in the european come. Baum older a Bear backers can Rock the basketball court and Rhein main s rocket routers can get a football Field rapping but the Mainz Mouths can get you shaking in your shoes. A Pitcher. You done to throw the Ball no Good. You re in Mainz now. . Go Back to Frankfurt. Go Mainz rang us a Manolo screams As Frankfurt a Sylvester Herrera goes into his Windup. A called strike. Manolo screams something in Spanish. The Mainz crowd roars. Who is this Manolo anyway in Between a go Mainz rang us a Calls Manolo gave his life Story. Sixty years of Yelling and screaming have kept him Young along with a secret recipe that helps him retain his Youthful Zeal. A i drink 10 Glass of Cerveza Beer a Day Quot Manolo says. A been doing it for 20 years sundays no exception. Before Mainz Pitcher Rob Staggenborg can t talk the next Day. That Sok. 1 come to support the team a cause we get no support from the Manolo a military Retiree who works for the Mainz dub system has become sort of the unofficial 10th Ranger always making the trip out to Lee Barracks to cheer his homeowners on. And cheer he does. A lot. Too much at times which prompts Frankfurt fans to yell Good natured obscenities at him. It does no to work. He yells louder. A it is a tradition in puerto Rico to make a lot of noise Quot Manolo says though no one dares to argue the Point with him a a lot of people Are on Maneu vers so i must yell louder to make up for you mean there a More of them a a he screams ripping into a quasi rap smash lambada pose As the speakers blare a Congo Intro to a latino favorite. Time for another Beer he mumbles As he interrupts himself in mid shake and scurries off to get a Ranger dog and a Beer. Rafael Merced a fellow puerto rican who plays for Frankfurt discounts Manolo As just a Rowdy fan. A just part of the game a he says. A you always t hecklers. Manolo is just having a Good time. I i How to play better Ball this Way by listening to _ a 4 Sis que Manolo Nieves will Bellow for his rangers saturday Chris Smith hits the Mound to Start the third inning Manolo is Halfway to his quota. But before you can say cirrhosis of the liver Manolo justifies his habit Small bottles. A sometimes when i come Home after a games a it s just part of the game a he says. A you learn them. A if you Tell them to shut up then they know they got to you and rip into you harder. I just pass it Merced is just being Nice. Its hard enough to hit a Ball spinning a Cool 80 Miles per hour. Toss in shrill whistles and Quot you can t hit Batter. Go Home you struck out last time. . Don t mess with my Mainz its nearly impossible. Opposing players Pray Manolo comes Down with a Case of laryngitis that lasts throughout the baseball season. A i had it laryngitis once when i was a Little kid a Manolo says. If nothing else it made his voice stronger he says. That spells bad news for baseball fans who enjoy serenity at the stadium. And bad news for the Stuttgart Blue sox who open the a a league championship series at 2 . Saturday at Mainz. There is one and Only one Way to quiet Manolo Nieves Down. Give him a Good latino beat and hell dance the night away. He a funny that Way. The men end mrp a Senna in German up Drivers seat by Randy Barnett motor sports editor Bockenheim West Germany a Ayrton Senna of Brazil seeking his third straight formula one Victory Here sped to provisional pole position Friday in the first qualifying session for sundays 52nd running of the German grand prix. Senna in a Mclaren Honda zoomed around the 4.2-mile Hocken Heim circuit in 1 minute 40.198 seconds at an average Speed of 151.744 Miles per hour. That s a Lap record in qualifying and two seconds faster than his pole time of last year. The brazilian Ace was also More than 2 seconds under the previous qualifying Mark set four years ago by Finland a Keke Rosberg in a Mclaren porsche Turbo. The Mclaren team was dominant in fridays opening session from Start to finish with Senna a austrian teammate Gerhard Berger scoring the second fastest time at 1 40.434. Sundays German grand prix ninth round in the world driving championship shapes up As another Battle Between the Mclaren Honda cars and Ferrari. Frenchman Alain Prost Lead ing Senna for the title by two Points going into this race recorded the third fastest time at 1 41.732. His Ferrari teammate Nigel Mansell of England followed with a 1 42.313. Prost aiming for his fourth straight win is some 1.5 seconds off Senna a time. He will have to push his Ferrari hard saturday to oust the brazilian from the no 1 starting Slot on the 26-car Grid. The weather forecast Calls for rainstorms saturday and if the forecast holds Senna a pole is assured. After fridays qualifying Senna said that the car worked perfectly in the torrid track conditions and that he had no problems on his record qualifying Lap. A in fact it was a nearly perfect Lap a he said a and there were no traffic problems with other englishman Ron Dennis Boss of the Mclaren Honda team said after qualifying a we made quite a lot of Progress on car setup today and the engines were working Well. We will have to wait until tomorrow when we try the cars on full tanks before we can assess our prospects for sundays following the Mclaren Ferrari foursome was Nelson Piquet of Brazil in a Benetton Ford at 1 42.926. Jean Alesi was sixth fastest at 1 43.255 in a Tyrrell Ford. Alessandro Nannini of Italy recorded the seventh fastest time at 1 43.594 in a Benetton Ford just before crashing heavily and at High Speed in the third chicane. He lost control going into the chicane the car hit the Guardrail and there was a Brief fire. Nannini walked away from the Accident with Only a bruised hip. The qualifying session was stopped 20 minutes while Nannini a heavily damaged car was removed and the track was cleared of debris. Filling out the top 10 of the fastest qualifiers were Thierry Boutsen of Belgium at 1 43.620 in a Williams Ren Ault Riccardo Patrese of Italy at 1 43.736, also in a Williams Renault and Satoru Nakajima of Japan at 1 44.873 in a Tyrrell Ford the final official qualifying session will be held from i to 2 . Saturday an International formula 3000 race follows at 3 . Sundays German grand prix of 45 laps Over the 4.2-mile Bockenheim circuit 189 mile starts at 2 . Ayrton Senna relaxing after record time a it was a nearly perfect Lap
