SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 8, 1994
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Football team to have full weekend
Jordan has highs, lows in Wrigley
Kansan staff report
The Kansas football team has a busy weekend ahead. It starts Friday night with the annual Kansas football clinic at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez, who guided the Badgers to a Rose Bowl victory last season, will speak at 9 p.m. Last season, Alvarez was named national coach of the year. Rockhurst Hawklets coach Tony Severino will be on hand. More than 300 coaches are expected to attend.
The clinic finishes up with the Jayhawks spring practice at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Chicago star has an error and two RBIs
By Rick Gano The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Michael Jordan returned to the city that reversed him, not as an NBA superstar leading his team to a string of championships, but as a minor-league baseball player still trying to grasp his new game.
"It was a great experience. Who would ever think I would ever be out there playing baseball here in Wrigley Field?" Jordan said after logging 10 innings for the Chicago White Sox in Thursday's Windy City Classic, an exhibition against the Cubs.
Jordan's performance was mixed.
He showed his remarkable athletic ability at times and also his inexperience. He went 2-for-5 with a gametying double and an RBI single. He also had an error, a weak strikeout and a base-running miscue that cost his team a run.
"It was a great feeling just to come out and do well. After the error you kind of second guess yourself. You are just trying to do what you want to do to fulfill your dreams. I was able to bounce back, I'm very proud of myself for just staying in there," Jordan said.
"Once you get an error, it's good to redeem yourself and get your confidence back. I was real nervous."
Jordan was the main reason 37,825 fans ventured to a chilly game that ended in a 4-4 tie. Jordan is bound for the Class AA Birmingham Barons today where he hopes to play well enough to come back to the White Sox in September.
Cheers and standing ovations were
mostly what Jordan received,
although there were a few scattered
boos, perhaps from basketball fans
longing again to see him fly across the
floor for a dunk.
"There were some pulling for me, some going against me," Jordan said. "I heard a lot of 'rookie' calls. I'm just happy to be able to block that out and still play."
with the go-ahead run on first in the ninth, Jordan swung weakly at two breaking balls from former major league pitcher Chuck Crim, now in Class AAA. Jordan then was called out on the very next pitch.
"I didn't want to give up a hit to him and the second time I faced him I went after him really hard," Crim said. "I wanted him to see what a big league slider looks like.
"Overall, I think he's been great for baseball. He certainly has made things interesting again."
In the seventh inning Jordan doubled past third off of Crim, but he didn't score from second when Julio Vinas drove a hit to center. Jordan raced back to second thinking the ball would be caught and then only made it as far as third. And when the next hitter, Craig Grebeck, grounded to third, Jordan was caught in a run-down and tagged out.
"If Michael Jordan wasn't coming off winning NBA championships, he would have scored on that double." White Sox manager Gene Lamont said, referring to Jordan's baseball inexperience.
Batting sixth, Jordan led off the top of the second inning against Lance Dickson and after taking three balls he popped out.
Jordan made one of three White Sox errors in the third. When Shawon Dunston singled to right, a charging Jordan let the ball go under his glove as the third of four Cubs runs scored in the inning.
"Just like the time he tagged up on
the bases, it was just inexperience. He was watching the runner." Lamont said. "Experience you can't replace. In Birmingham he's going to get that."
When Jordan did catch a fly ball in the fifth, he got a standing ovation. In the same inning, Jordan flawlessly fielded two hits in the outfield and on the second made a perfect one-hop peg to third, preventing Willie Wilson from advancing a base.
Against another minor league lefty, Dave Otto, Jordan bounced a high chopper to third that went off Craig Worthington's glove for a single, driving in Darrin Jackson from third for the White Sox's first run in the sixth.
Jordan was playing a game in a major league ballpark for the first time. Now it's time for some long bus rides.
"I responded well today and at least I got a confidence builder going down to Birmingham," he said. "Hopefully, that will be enough to keep me going."
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