European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 13,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 19 Jones pitches pizza Pir Masens West Germany a if you want to help out an old ballplayer visit the pizza cart in your local commissary. A those carts Are mine and those Are my employees a said Randy Jones 1976 by Young award Winner for the san Diego padres. His company a amps foods in san Diego has the worldwide commissary contract for those pizza carts. Jones 40, came to Pir Masens from Berlin Friday with fellow ambassadors of baseball tug Mcgraw Tim Foli Lee Lacy Jerry Grote Bill Campbell and Jerry Koosman As part of their tour to meet fans in Europe. Jones went 22-14 in his by Young year with a 2.74 Era. The left handers 22 wins 40 starts 25 Complete games and 315 /3 innings pitched were All league highs a and rarely matched nowadays. His 2.24 Era in �?T75 also led the National league. Jones has never stopped travelling. A we went to Hawaii and Guam As a group with his sister and brother in Law who help with the business. They went Back to san Diego. I went on to Seoul Youngsam Pusan Taegu Osan. From there i went up to Narida and Yakota air bases in Japa Nall in the last three weeks. I was Home for four Days to get my stuff out of the dry cleaners. A i toured two months and did baseball Camps for All the sports directors and did my commissary work As a Walt Morrissette is John g. Zimmerman Randy Jones was on top of the baseball world during his by Young summer of 1976. Ambassadors of baseball Soldier s sacrifices Fly with Foli Pir Masens West Germany a Tim Foli was talking baseball under Cloudy skies with soldiers during his morale boosting tour. A they make a lot of sacrifices for us a Foli said. A a it a not much of a sacrifice for us to come Over Here and help out a bit. Although Foli still looks trim at 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds he admits he play now. A gnaw in be got pulled Muscles and everything else a he Tim Foli said. A but i had a Long career and i enjoyed it. God blessed me with a lot of ability and 1 was very fortunate that i could last that Foli was the no. 1 draft Choice by the mets in 1968, and broke into the major leagues at age 19 in 1970. Foli was a major league infielder for 15 seasons from 1970 to 84. He really moved around the mets 1970-71 Montreal 1972-77 the giants 1977 Back to the mets 1978-79 Pittsburgh for 133 games in 1979-81 the Angels in 1982-83 the Yankees in �?T84 and ending with the �?T85 pirates. He rapped out 10 world series hits in 30 trips for the victorious 1979 pirates. Foli stays Busy in Daytona Beach fla., where he lives with his wife and five children. He owns a Bowling Center and is an assistant baseball coach at Stetson in nearby Deland. A Walt Morrissett Phillies mets fans still tugging for Mcgraw by Walt Morrissette staff writer Pir Masens West Germany a former Relief Ace tug Mcgraw says dramatic changes in the Way Relief pitchers Are used have led to the skyrocketing number of saves they Register a namely Bobby Thigpenn a record 49 saves and counting a compared with a decade ago. A Aback when i first started Relief pitching we always had two Guys in the bullpen who handled most of the Short work a Mcgraw said during the ambassadors of baseball tour. A whether you worked depended on whether you were lefty or righty or whose turn it was. A no one was out there to collect a lot of saves. We had to hold the other team so we could score some runs plug the leak in the dam so to speak. Sometimes wed have to do it three innings two innings one inning sometimes maybe one pitch. A nowadays they have setup men and a stopper who Only comes in if its a save situation. The most saves i Ever had in a season was 27 with the 1972 mets. Some of the Guys today have that at the All Star Mcgraw 46, saw summits and canyons in his 19-year career with the mets 1965-74 and Phillies 1975-�4. During his first four years with the mets their records were 50-112, 66-95, 61-101 and 73-89. Then came that glorious summer of �?T69, when the mets chased Down the cubs in september to take the East with a 100-62 record swept the braves in the playoffs then beat Baltimore in the world series. Those Early years helped him keep the hysteria surrounding the Metsy first Pennant race in perspective. Quot id been around Long enough to know the Magni j a at was happening a he said. A the dodgers and giants left new York for the West coast in �?T58 were without National league baseball a til o2, when the mets were a a Mcgraw called those first few years with the mets management tried to build a team under manager Casey Stengel with marquee players past their prime not knowing How the fans would respond. But they did support the Early mets in legions a averaging 1.7 million fans a year for Mcgraws first four years and drawing a then team record 2.1 million in 1969. A in my Rookie year in �?T65 they had Banner Day a he recalled. A and the winning Banner read a to err is human to forgive is to be a mets and that a the Way we played a with a lot of errors. A it was amazing How fast our team developed. I was there to appreciate the growth process up from when we were really terrible until we were world aside from his 27 saves in 1972, Mcgraw saved 25 for the �?T73 mets who lost to Oakland in the tug Mcgraw world series and 20 for the 1980 Phillies who won their first world series by beating Kansas City. He was also on the �?T83 Phillies team that lost to the orioles in the series but he had no saves that year going 2-1 with a 3.56 Era in 34 innings. He finished his career with 180 saves a 96-92 record and a 3.13 Era. Does he get More fan recognition from his mets Days or his Phillies Days a a it a mixed about 50-50,�?� he said. A a in a surprised at How Many people remember the new York Days. But there Are a lot of people Here in Europe from All Over Pennsylvania from up in the farm country the Pennsylvania dutch country that Are Here from Lancaster York Shippensburg and from Philadelphia. A the fans from Philly like to talk about that 1980 world series. Of course the new yorkers like the �?T69 series Mcgraw pitched for teams that quite stay on top once they arrived there. A a it a tougher to stay on top than it is to get on top a he said. A the Only expect ions were the Oakland teams that won three straight world championships and that a very unusual. I done to know what it is. Teams get a Little older maybe they get a Little As far As what happened to his 80 Phillies. A Well that a a Tough Call. �?T81 was the strike year a Mcgraw said. A we got off to a great Start and we were in first place when it happened. Then we lost 50 games to the strike. After the strike we just get it going again. A to this Day i can to figure out what it Mcgraw said the Philly front office had to justify their salaries so they started trading away parts of the team then owner Ruly Carpenter sold the team to William Giles. A everything changed after that a new Structure at the top new management philosophies and that filters Down to kind of a disorganized team on the Field. And they be been suffering from that Ever since a Mcgraw said. A but they re starting to come Back a Little Mcgraw faced some of the toughest hitters of our time a including hammering Hank Henry Aaron. A i helped put Hank Aaron into the Hall of Fame a Mcgraw said. A the hit a Bunch of them off but the toughest hitter he Ever faced was. A Clemente. Overall the toughest Guys i faced were Clemente Rose Guys who were situation hitters. Mcgraw also faced new Phillie Dale Murphy during Murphy a map years with the braves in 1982 and �?T83. A the got his share off of me a Mcgraw said. A a he a a Good hitter. But i brought Home some Bacon off of Nim Mcgraw supports the Trade despite Murphy s 34 years of age. A it was a Good Trade. I think he was just stagnant Down in Atlanta. I think he a got two or three Good years left in him a he said. 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