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Thursday, April 28, 1994
The Office of Minority Affairs Proudly Invites You To: The 18th Annual Minority Graduation Banquet
Honored Guests: Minority graduating students Festivities: Music, Meal, Awards Ceremony Price: Free for minority graduating students When: Saturday, May 14, 1994, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Where: Kansas Union Ballroom
Attending graduating students should pick up their tickets at Office of Minority Affairs.
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Hamelin filling big shoes for Royals
By Craig Horst
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Few rookies have arrived with such a daunting task and with such maturity to deal with it as has Bob Hamelin.
And few have had such immediate success.
At age 26, Hamelin was designated the successor to George Brett almost immediately after Brett announced his retirement from the Kansas City Royals last Sept. 25.
put him in pretty good company.
"No one replaces George Brett," is Hamelin's stock reply to the question.
Guaranteed his big chance after six years in the minors, Hamelin went off to Las Vegas this winter for an arm-wrestling stunt engineered by ESPN and hurt his arm.
It was one of the few lapses in judgment by the square-jawed, stocky power hitter.
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"I don't really feel like a rookie."
Hamelin said. "It's not like I'm a 21-year-old rookie."
Hamelin's April numbers — five home runs and 19 runs batted in —
Bo Jackson holds the club record for April homers with eight in 1989. Kirk Gibson's six in 1991 make him the only other Royal to get more than five in the month.
Al Cowens had 21 RBI in April 1979. Since then, only Jackson and Brett have had more than 20 in the month.
"I've got to practice more than some people," the 6-foot, 235-pound Hamelin said. "I've got to work harder. I just can't come out like some guys and play a game. I've got to take more batting practice. I've got to ride the bike more to keep myself in shape, to keep my back healthy."
Ah, the back. It threatened to end his career prematurely before he had gotten past Triple-A Omaha.
He started 1992 on the disabled list before making the tour through the Royals minor-league system from
It started on Aug. 8, 1900, when he was disabled with a back strain that eventually was diagnosed as a stress fracture. He was injured again May 27, 1991, and had disk fusion surgery.
Haines City to Memphis to Omaha.
He had a healthy year at Omaha last year, hitting 29 homers and driving in 89 runs, that convinced the Royals he was ready to take over for Brett.
But maybe the most important number was his league-leading 82 walks,) compared with 94 strikeouts. Already this year, he has walked eight times and struck out 11 — an impressive ratio for a home-run hitter.)
Patience is the word that most often comes to manager Mal McRae's mind when he talks about Hamelin. That and a consistent, smooth swing.
"I got the hatrick in Cleveland the other day — three strikeouts," Hamelin said. "As long as you get a hit, everything's fine. When you're going bad, you just have to keep going. When you're going good, you just have to keep going."
So far, McRae's theory for keeping the pressure off Hamelin is to plop him in the middle of the order, surround him with such veteran hitters as Wally Joyner, Mike Macfarlane and Felix Jose, and leave him alone.
Spurs ready to put the Jazz out of sync
By Kelley Shannon The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs listened to music and plotted new plays yesterday in hopes of breaking their season-long slump against the Utah Jazz.
"They seemed to have had our number all year," Spurs coach John Lucas said. "We've got our hands full."
The Jazz swept San Antonio 5-0 in the regular season. The Jazz and Spurs meet tonight in Game I of their best-of-five Western Conference playoff series.
Both teams refuse to dwell on the lonsided regular-season outcome.
"It doesn't guarantee you anything."
Sloan's players second that sentiment but say they still prefer to play a team they're regularly beaten.
"The way we look at it is, hey, it doesn't mean anything," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "Everybody starts even in the playoffs. Nobody cares what you did yesterday. That's the way life is."
the Spurs, still jubilant over David Robinson's 71-point performance Sunday to win the league scoring title, insist it's their turn to win. Robinson, schooled as a mathematician, talked about the odds.
Utah's Tyrone Corbin said. "But it does mean you can beat them. I'd rather have a situation like that than one where we're playing a team that throttled us every game."
"You know you're not going to beat a team 10 times in a row," he said. "You know that just isn't going to happen. Everybody knows it's a new season, a new time."
The Spurs retreated this week from San Antonio to a more serene setting in nearby San Marcos for two-a-day practices and a stay in a local motel.
"One thing is, I wanted to make sure we got proper rest and we really got locked into what Utah does," Lucas said.
The coach had Dennis Rodman play his choice of music during practice yesterday as a substitute for crowd noise. "Demolition Man" blared on a
loudspeaker in the Southwest Texas State University coliseum.
State University coaches Lucas says it's crucial for the Spurs to win the first two games at home if they are to take the series. He also wants more production from other players besides Robinson.
"It's going to take seven or eight guys playing well for us to beat Utah, Lucas said. "They're obviously going to try to take David away from us. It's no longer the David Robinson show."
Robinson wants the Spurs to do a better job of containing Utah's John Stockton and executing plays in the final minutes of the game.
The Jazz, meanwhile, have been concentrating on an advantage of opening the series on the road.
"You get a chance to put a lot of pressure on the other team. If you can get one game on their court, you have all the momentum," Karl Malone said.
The Jazz have opened four playoff series on the road in the past three years, including last year's series against Seattle. The Jazz split the first two games with the Sonics.
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