European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Stars and Mideast edition june 2007 sports slamming Sammy goes 0for4 in first game against his former Page 30 versatility paying off for Doumit by Dave Sheinin the Washington Post on any Given afternoon during batting Ryan Doumit of the Pitts Burgh pirates lugs his equipment bag to the dugout Bench and rifles through it looking for the Correct Glove he will need to either a shag flies in the b take ground balls at first or c catch one of the pirates pitchers in the Many he needs All three by the end of batting he in but he  have it any other for Doumit is one of those strange subspecies of player known As the super Utility Man an everyday player without a or put an other an everyday player with lots of to i embrace said Ryan Freel of the Cincinnati who last year started games at All three Outfield plus third base and second that whats kept me and that whats going to keep me defining the super Utility player for a certain kind of almost no position is Krypton definition admittedly arbitrary to be considered a super Utility players must have started in at least three positions this including at least one Outfield position and one infield position and have started at least one game at an Puth Middle position second Center Field and have started in at least on third of his teams games and not have started in More than two thirds of the teams games at any one by Dave Sheinin and Bonnie Berkowitz the Washington Post the More positions i can the bet in Freel became the first player since Tony Phillips in 1992 to Start at least 10 games at five different along with chone figgins of the los Angeles who started at six different positions in Freelar Gua Bly is the most highly evolved specimen in the Superti Litzman and what exactly is a super Utility As opposed to the lowly Utility Man in comparison to our super is no More highly evolved than an amoeba there is no Standard but to be considered we decided quite arbitrarily that you must be Able to play at least three including at least one each in the infield and and to differentiate our supers from the immobile types who fill in first base and left we decided one of your positions must be an Puth Middle position second Center we relented and permitted Pitcher to count As an Puth Middle solely for the purpose of being Able to include babe Ruth As a super Utility in Ruth made 19 starts and one Relief appearance As a but also made 13 appearances at first base and 59 in the see Utility on Page 29 us Irvine comes through beats Arizona in 10 innings Page 27 Kings choose Theus to replace Musselman As head coach Page 26 Veteran Garcia taking Over As front runner for burst a a Job Page 25 Montoya making strides toward first Sextel cup Victory