European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 10, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 257997 s wish list makes baseball Worth watching a a a s a s v Vvs a a a it v a it a  a a. Map Back to Back no hitters from Nolan Ryan would be the stuff of dreams. I by Allan Malamud the los Angeles times a notes on a scorecard things i would like to see this baseball season Nolan Ryan equal Johnny Vander Meer s record of throwing Back to Back no hitters a $3 million Pitcher become a 20-game Winner. A $2 million hitter Bat .300 Ernie Harwell get an Extension. More doubleheaders even though it Means More rainout. Stars giving away autographs for nothing Dave Stewart win the by Young award. Commissioner Fay Vincent ban rotisserie leagues. Jack Clarks actions continue to speak louder than his words victories from Mark Langston. A return to his Rookie form by Jim Abbott. Peace Between Frank Robinson and the umpires. A televised minor Itcague game of the week. More triples. A a chauffeur for Jose Canseco. Cal Ripken do himself a favor and sit Down for a Day. A division with every team above .500____ a division with every team below .500____ National league pitchers learn How to bunt. Another baseball script by Ron Shelton. Billboards Back on the Outfield fences. I commentary More hit and run plays. Cleveland in first place after the Allstar break. Two hour games. Properly executed cutoff plays. Spectators in Atlanta a1 Michaels broadcast a game. Houston get a major Laguc franchise. A a a. A Quot a a a a a. A a a a a. A fewer stats. A right hander be called Crafty. An All Star game that Isnit a total bore. A. A a a  a a a a a a. Steady work in the major leagues for Fernando Valenzuela. A runner called Safe when the second baseman does no to touch the bag on a Force play. Respect for underrated Rafael Palmeiro. A a a a. A. A a a announcements that artificial turf at several stadiums will be torn up and replaced by grass. Jane Fonda become aerobics coach for Ted Turners Atlanta braves. No waves., Lou Brock come Back and regain his stolen base record from Rickey Henderson. Tony Gwynn and Wade Boggs Challenge .400 to Jackson come to Bat for the Chicago White sox. Terry Cooney treat Roger Clemens like any other Pitcher. Roger Clemens treat Terry Cooney like any other Umpire. Mackay Sasser throw a strike to the Pitcher. Orel Hershiser prove that he a a bulldog an october freeway series Texas a amp a hires Creighton s Barone by Michael Lutz College station Texas Apony Barone who led Creighton to con Cutie 20-plus Victory seasons the past see years was named basketball coach Texas a amp Mon tuesday. Barone is the aggie so fourth basketball Oach in the past two seasons. Longtime a amp a coach Shelby Metcalf As dismissed during the 1989-90 season my replaced by assistant John Thornton. Kermit Davis jr., 31, succeeded him leading the aggie to an 8-21 record in one season As head coach. Davis resigned last month after a three month internal investigation uncovered eight violations of Mcaa rules. Barone 102-82 in six seasons at Creighton had interviewed for the Job last week. He and his wife had also met with a amp a athletic director John David Crow at the final four in Indianapolis. The 44-Ycar-old Barone coached the bluejays to three straight 20-Victory seasons two Missouri Valley conference regular season and tournament championships two Mcaa tournament appearances and one trip to the National invitation tournament. Barone a Chicago native and Duke graduate also interviewed for the coaching vacancy at Colorado state and was contacted about the coaching Job at Bradley where he was an assistant for seven years. The aggie so 8-21 season this year was Only the third 20-loss season in the 79-year history of the program and the first since 1955. Under Metcalf the aggie had six Southwest conference titles in 27 seasons. Texas a amp a is scheduled to build a new $35 million 14,500-seat Arena in the next two years. Machine defense smothers Birmingham Montreal a it was Montreal cornerback Richard Shelton who was As the machine burned the Bir Ingham fire for its second Victory both ver the soldering fire. Shelton who once played for the Den or Broncos in the National football a eague returned a Fumble 25 Yards for a hic Down on the first play of the game Len ran a pass interception Back 63 Aras for another score to Lead Montreal ver Birmingham 23-10 in a world eague of american football game Mon a night. He Pla it red 8reat Ball inside the 20-Ine a a couple of times we really unfed them a remarked Shelton. A when e defense can keep that up for four quarters it gives the offence a Chance to put it in the end zone which it did in the second  the machines offence continued to sputter but it was hardly noticeable because of Shelton. With the Victory the machine 2-1 moved into a first place tie with Orlando in the North american East division. Birmingham is 1-2 and shares last place in the division with Sacramento and san Antonio. With 27,766 enthusiastic supporters looking on a just Over half of the 53,238 fans who witnessed Montreal a Home opener a week earlier a the machines defense provided a 13-0 Lead in the first six minutes of the opening Quarter. Shelton scooped up a Fumble by fire running Back Joe Henderson for a touchdown Only 26 seconds into the game. Henderson fumbled on the fires first Possession after a hit by linebacker Adam Bob. Just under five minutes later Shelton stepped in front of Stacey Mobley and intercepted a pass by Birmingham quarterback Brent Pease and raced in for the score on which Bjorn Pittmo missed the extra Point. A evidently in a not doing something but ill have to change something so we can execute properly and not turn the Ball Over a said Birmingham head coach Chan Gailey. A in my opinion we re a better football team but we just gave it away. Shelton was burned at 4 50 of the second Quarter when Pease lofted the Ball Over the cornerback a head and into the hands of Mobley for a 55-Yard to. Win Lyle of the fire and Pittmo traded Field goals before the end of the half giving the machine a 16-10 Edge despite earning its Only first Down of the half in the final two minutes. The machine entered the second half with Only 44 Yards of total offence compared to 213 by the fire. A we have to regroup and learn How to execute offensively a admitted machine head coach Jacques assault. A but the fact we won this game is going to take a lot of pressure off our