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Tuesday, January 24,1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Baseball fans shouldn't invest in wannabe "major leaguers"
By Jim Litke
Associated Press Columnist
Stick that season-ticket form back in the drawer. Hold off writing the check. If early reports from tryout camps are any indication, major league baseball could be played this season by guys who look like John Kruk but hit and field like Jonathan Winters.
Over the weekend, from camps on both coasts, came words and pictures confirming
what everybody but the owners already knows: baseball is turning into a joke. A nationwide talent search might turn up enough comics to stock 28 clubs for months, but it wouldn't produce near enough replacement players to stock that many teams for a day.
It was not just coincidence that an overage, overager left-hander who showed up at the Angels' camp at CalState - Fullerton figured his best chance to make an impression on
Ontario is to leave em laughing.
"If they ask, 'How's your arm?' he told a Los Angeles newspaper, 'I'll just say, 'it's attached.'"
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"You have to be realistic about these things," Blue Jays director Bob Engle said from club's tryout camp at Dunedin, Fla. "What we're hoping to find out is if we've overlooked anybody in the past year who may have the
While he was not referring specifically to the aforementioned, Engle clearly was not expecting too many keepers.
talent to play in our organization."
And of course, we're just as willing to believe that the Blue Jays — like the other 27 teams in baseball — already have dozens of quality replacements under contract and in hiding until it's time to fling open the gates for spring training.
The fact is, once you shut out the former major leaguers, then shut out all the minor-league prospects that the general managers are unwilling to expose to an ugly labor situation, what you are left with is a lot of wannabes.
Out-of-shape wannabes with round bodies who only look like Kruk.
But if fans are fool enough to pay real money to see these wannabes, the owners will be laughing all the way to the bank.
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