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University Daily Kansan, October 12. 1983
SPORTS BRIEFS From United Press International Grand jury may investigate Royals for possible drug use
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A special federal grand jury scheduled to meet Monday will consider a cocaine investigation that possibly involves members of the Kansas City Royals, U.S. Attorney James Marquez said Tuesday.
Marquez in August confirmed that former Royals pitcher Vida Blue was one of "less than 10" baseball players being interviewed for alleged cocaine abuse in Johnson County. He did note, however, that the drug investigation involves people other than baseball players.
"One of the express purposes (of the grand jury) is to consider the cocaine investigation." Murzer said.
Newspaper reports, though Marquez never confirmed them, said Royals players Willie Aikens, Jerry Martin and U.L. Washington also were named in documents tied to the cocaine investigation.
Rovals place Geronimo on waivers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals continued their off-season house cleaning yesterday by placing veteran outfielder Cesar Gernimo on waivers to give him an unconditional release.
Geronimo, 35, spent three seasons with the Royals in a backup capacity but played in only 38 games in 1983. He hit .207 with no home runs and 4 runs batted in.
He is the fourth aging Royal to leave the club in the last month, joining centerfielder Amos Otis and pitchers Gaylord Perry and Steve Renko among the ranks of the unemployed. Kansas City failed to exercise the option year of Otis' contract, making him a free agent; Perry retired and Renko was also waived.
The Royals have also released three coaches since the close of the season: Joe Nossek, Cloyd Boyer and Rocky Colavito. Nossek was the third-base coach. Boyer the pitching coach and Colavito the hitting coach.
Fullback returns to K-State lineup
MANHATTAN. Kan. — Kansas State fullback Mark Hundley, sidelined the past four weeks with a broken bone in his right hand, returned to Wildcat practice yesterday.
rundtey, who started the season opener against Long Beach State, went through the regular workout and may be able to play Saturday when K-State visits Kansas, Coach Jim Dickey said.
Yesterday's practice was much the same as Monday's with the Wildea studies studying KU's offensive and defensive sets, he said.
"We spent the whole two-hour practice looking at KU's formations," Dickey said. "We still need a lot of work on execution, but we had a good practice today and we need another one tomorrow."
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Sunday Oct. 16
Detroit Chicago 3
San Diego New England 4
Tampa Bay St Louis 3
York Minnesota 4
Pittsburgh Cleveland 3+
New Orleans San Francisco 1
Minnesota Houston
Buffalo Baltimore E
Dervor Cincinnati 4
Xlans Alamut Alabama
Kansas City N Y Giants 2
Dallas Philadelphia 7th
L.A. Raiders Seattle 7th
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Navy  Princeton 19
Rutgers  Colgate 24
St. Joseph 31
W Virginia  Va Tech 16
Yale  Columbia 9
Illinois 13
Iowa  Purdue 19
Alabama  Colorado 3
Kansas St. Kansas St. 12
Miami (Fla.)  Miss. St. 12
Nebraska  Missouri 20
Oklahoma  Oak St. 15
TCU  Mississippi 6
UCLA  Wash. St. 18
California St. California St. 12
Arizona St. So. California 11
Washington  Stanford 17
Atlanta  Akron 17
Baylor  Texas A&M 6
Wisconsin Minnesota 16
Tech Rice 17
Georgia Vanderbilt 18
LSU Kentucky 13
LAS Georgia 13
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Maryland
Clemson
Clemson
Auburn
Georgia Tech
Dartmouth
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Wake Forest 10c
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Dale 17
George Tech 14
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"SOMEBODY ASKED ME if it was a problem of what game I'd go see. I said, "No, it really isn't. I'll be in Wichita with my family, because he'll only play a few years in high school, and can watch KU play forever."
high school basketball games together, because their sons will play on the same team. If Lawrence High ever plays on the same night as KU though, Ed Manning will have to be courted at the field house. But Monte Johnson will be at the LHS game.
Monte Johnson said he didn't miss an LHS basketball game last year.
"We've always felt that that came first — that family activities have higher priority than anything else, including work responsibilities, in my mind," he said. "You can only live that one time with your family."
"I know last year when we were playing the state tournament, Jeff had a game in Wichita, and KU was playing in State in Kansas," Johnson said.
Danny Manning certainly won't be the first of the father and son group to be coached by his father.
Jeff Johnson, who began his basketball career at age seven in a Biddy Basketball league in Wichita, Oklahoma by his father for six straight years.
At the time, the Johnson family had recently moved to Wichita from Lawrence, when Johnson left his post as KU assistant athletic director and became senior president of the Fourth National Bank of Wichita.
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BUT JONSON'S SON still came first. When Biddy Basketball, an international youth basketball program sponsored by the Salvation Army, put out a call for coaches, Johnson volunteered.
Johnson coached his son until age 12, the limit for Biddy Basketball. Johnson said that some of his most memorable times with Jeff came during their involvement with the program.
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"I took a team of young men to Finland and Sweden to play in an international tournament, and Jeff was on that team." Johnson said. "We really enjoyed the competition as a family."
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Johnson was a three-year KU basketball letterman from 1957-59, seven years before Jef was born.
In 1978 Monte Johnson's team won the World Biddy Basketball Championship in Sweden, beating a New Orleans team 61-40.
But even though Johnson coached his son, Jeff never saw his father play, unlike Manning.
"HEN CAN'T EVER had to suffer through watching me play," Johnson said. "I think in many ways it is been an advantage, because Jeff has a great opportunity to live up to his dad's reputation, as some athletes have had."
Jon Pattin watched his father play baseball when he was a youngster. And like Johnson and Manning, he has chosen to play his father's sport.
Jon occupies his summers on an American Legion team, the only organized baseball program for high school players in Lawrence.
Jon, who is a junior this year,
played this summer on the junior
legion team, which is for ages 16 and
younger.
"It WAS VERY IMPORTANT for me to have my family go to spring training with me," he said, "because I felt that was the only time of the year that we could really enjoy ourselves.
"He's basically been around baseball ever since he was 1 year old." Marty Pattin said. "He's been in, I think, 12 father-son games in the big leagues. We have movies of Jon, when he was 1 year old, in his first father-son game with the Angels in 1968."
"Jon and Jeff have had the opportunity to live in all four corners of the United States." Pattin said. "Baseball has been a rewarding experience for them, because they play in a lot and see a lot of the country."
Marty Pattin played for five major league teams in his pro career, including the California Angels, the Seattle Pilots, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Boston Red Sox and the Royals.
because of the convenience of the Royals training camp location in Fort Myers, Fla., was near the beach. Spring training camp lasted from mid-February to the first of April.
Although his father traveled around the league, the family was based in Illinois, where Jon attended school.
Pattin said that during his 13 years in the majors he saw his family only at regular season home games, but they always attend. But during spring
TWO YEARS AGO, KU hired Marty Pattie, former Kansas City Royals pitcher, as the new head coach, and has another son, 12-year-old Jeffrey.
'It's not so hectic in spring training, because you're out there every morning. You get your work in, and a lot of times you are done by noon, until the exhibition games start.
"Then you have opportunities to take your kids to the beach. I think we had it set up where Jon and Jeff had to get their studies in the morning. They got all their work done when they could play in the afternoon."
"I'd go around to all my teachers, and you just say, 'Hey I'm going to be gone for the next six weeks.' Jon said. "You'd go about a week ahead of time, and they'd get you some assignments to do. At first you really worry about, am I going to get all of it done. Then you go down to work. You didn't say I'd get back about 11:30 or 12 and have the rest of the afternoon off, and I'd still come back 10 pages ahead of everybody else."
KU baseball coach Marty Pattin, left, and his son, Jon, relax in the dugout at Quigley Field south of Allen Field House after a game of "pepper." Jon Pattin has chosen to play his father's sport, baseball, and started at catcher this summer on Lawrence's Junior American Legion team.
training, he said, baseball was a family affair.
Pattin said that he and his sons fished often during spring training,
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