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Monday, August 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
An instant replay—almost Past Royals and Cardinals take the field to remember
By Jeff Euston Kansan staff writer
KANSA CITY, Mo. — It wasn't exactly the 7-10 World series, but the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals played again Saturday at Royals Stadium.
Many Royals from the division-winning teams of the late '70s returned, including Fred Patek, John Mavberv and Darrert Porter.
Players from past Royals and Cardinals participants in the third Equitable Old-Timers Game with the Minnesota Twins.
The Cardinals team featured three Hall-of-Famers — Enos "Country" Shaughner, Bob Gibson and Lou McCarthy. The Cardinals Curt Flood, and Dick Groot.
Through the game ended in a 3-3 tie after five innings, it gave the fans and players a chance to relive old memories.
for the Royals Old-Timers, the fondest memories were those of the team that won three consecutive Division titles, from 1965 to 1974.
The 1977 team was especially memorable to several players.
"I think our 1977 team was the best of the three that won the division," said shortstop Fred Patek, who led the team in stolen bases in stolen bases that year with 13.
The 1977 Royals put together one of the best stretch sports in baseball by winning 24 of 25 games in late August and September. The
"I felt that we had the best team in baseball, that we should have gone to the World Series and it. But I did not," he said. "The ninth inning again." he said.
team finished with a 101-61 mark still a team record.
In the playoffs, however, Kansas City suffered the second of three straight defeats to the New York Yankees.
The Royals, playing at home in the
fifth and deciding game of the series,
a had one-run leading the ninth
run. The Rangers rallied for
three runs and won 5-3.
"That was a fun season, but it was the touchest at the end." Patek said.
Patek, who was a player-manager for the Royals Old-Timers, is now 43 and lives in Blue Springs, Mo.
"it's fun to come back and renew old acquaintances," said Patek, who now serves in management for the Grand'y's restaurant chain.
John Mayberry, the Royals first baseman from 1972 to 1977, also remembered the 1977 team well.
"The thing I remember is that we always lost to the Yankees." Mayberry said. "We had a good club, but they didn't play well." They always found a way to beat us.
Mayberry, 39, is now a minor-league hitting instructor with the Toronto Blue Jaws.
Mayberry played with the Blue Jays from 1798 to 1982 and lives in Overland Park in the off-season. He said he had three young litters other noteworthy.
One of his prize pupils is Toronto first baseman Fred McGriff, who has hit 30 home runs this season.
Former Royals catcher Darrall Porter, who also played with St. Louis from 1981 to 1985, said he learned a lot from the 1977 team.
"That team was the first winning team 'l'd played for," said Porter, who played with the Milwaukee Brewers before he was traded to
"Guy's like Hale McAne and Frank hite taught me a lot about winning. I've been on. But the loss to the kowiesen was hard to swallow." *Toil*
Kansas City before the 1977 season.
Porter, 36, ended his playing career last season with the Texas Rangers. He now lives in Lee's Summit, Mo., and works in the real estate industry.
Although returning was a treat for the players, most showed only glimpses of their days as players.
Both Porter and Mayberry, who were slow on a good day during their playing careers, both have lost a few years. The one they've added a few more pounds.
The highlight of the game was a home run by Cardinal Old-Timer Mae Bricke, who was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1974.
Porter drove in the game-tyring run for the Royals Old-Timers in the fifth when his fly ball to right-center field was dropped. Porter tripped over first base on the play and turned a result, but he arose with a big leg.
"I'm half dead," Mayberry said. "But I'm glad to be a part of this game. It's a lot of fun to see every body again."
Mayberry made several fine plays at first base, but he wasn't looking to come out of retirement.
The game gave fans and current players the opportunity to see legends in action again.
Royals third baseman Kevin Seitlen, who grew up in central Illinois as a student at a local high school, introduced himself to Cardinal Great Leo brock, the all-time stolen star.
"I grew up watching these guys play," said Seitzer, who later asked Brock to pose for a picture with him. Lou Brock was one of my heroes.
Like Porter, Cardinals Old-Timer Al Hrabosky played for both Kansas City and St. Louis.
For this game, however, the Mad Hungarian was back on the field.
Irabakoy, known as the "Mad Hungarian" during his playing days, has shaved his trademark Fru Manchu mustache. He now broadcast pre-game and postgame radio shows with Bob Gibson for the Cardinals.
Hrabsy, whose hair is now a salty grey, denied a black Fu Man武装。A game. As Royals Old-Timer Obi Oliver waived, Hrabiosy stood behind the pitcher's mound with his back to home plate, rubbing the
After psyching himself up, he slammed the ball in his glove, whirled around, and, glaring at Olive, unworked his first pitch. It was a fasthat that went behind him, but hecher and cherer all the way to the backstop.
Hrabsoxy approached Oliver menacingly, angrily threw his hat and glove aside, and added a new twist to his famous act. Oliver and Hrabsoxy, giggling at this point, dig down on their knees and began to roar.
Though the players approached the game with fun in mind, they were there for a worthy cause.
Former Kansas City Royals catcher Derrick Porter plays with catch his 4-year-old son, Jeffrey, before the Old-Timers game yesterday at Kansas City.
The contest was part of the 26-game Equitable Old Timer Series, which has toured every major-league park for the past three summers.
The Equitable Financial Companies donates $10,000 per game to the
Baseball Alumni Team (BAT), a fund for former major league baseball players in need.
BAT was formed in 1986 as a financial assistance project for needy former players and umpires.
Only recently have lucrative contracts and big pensions become a part of baseball. Those who played in the 1950s were often pensions were concerned, and many
who played later received only limited coverage.
"The organization (BAT) has a working relationship with the Players Association and helps较 older players in need." Brock said. "We've all benefited from the game, and now we're giving a little back."
As a result, stories about former heroes who were struggling to pay rent appeared regularly.
The Associated Press
ANGELES — Angel Myers, who won three events at U.S. trials and may have had a hand in the disqualified from the Seoul Games next month for use of a banned drug, the U.S. swim team said Sunday. The team was unable to find an answer.
Richard Quick, Olympic coach,
said Jill Sterkel and Janelle
Jorgensen were both named to
replace Mers.
"We have the utmost sympathy and concern for Angel Myers during this very difficult time," Ray B. Easkic, executive director of U.S. Swimming, said in a prepared statement.
Sterkel of Austin, Texas, becomes the first U.S. woman swimmer to be named Olympic gold medalist; Sterkel missed making the team in two years.
In a statement, U.S. Swimming, governing body for the sport in the United States, said initial tests of Myers, who is from Americas, Ga. were confirmed by a second urinary analysis* in accordance with cultured procedures outlined in the USOCJS agreement on drug testing.
"It is a shame that this has happened to our sport and to Olympic sports," Quick said. "But it speaks well for the necessity and integrity of substance testing. Every consideration given to Angel during this process."
Jorgensen, of Ridgefield, Conn. came in third in the 100-meter but terfly at the Olympic trials earlier this month.
The U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Review met in Colorado Springs, Colo., Saturday and Sunday before making the decision.
Jim Delfond, a spokesperson for U.S. Swimming, said the group would not release the type or amount of data found in Myers' criminals. He said the group had not yet received that details could be released only by Myers or her family.
Myers was en route to her Georgia home with her father shortly after the decision was announced and was not available for comment.
Myers tested positive at the recent Olympic trials at Austin, Dimond said earlier. Myers set two U.S. records during the meet.
But at the trials in Austin, she set U.S. records in the 50 and 100 freestyle. She also qualified in the 100 freestyle and 100 record sold Mary T. Meather.
"The U.S. Swim team will miss Angel Myers but welcomes Jill and Janelle to the team and looks for opportunities," Olympic Games. "Quick, said."
Myers was believed to have a chance to win five medals. She had already won the freeylee, sixth in the 100 butterfly and ninth in the 200 individual medal.
Several team members are in Los Angeles preparing for the trip to Seoul.
Nebraska quarterback leads the way Taylor sets rushing record in 23-14 defeat of Texas A&M
The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Steve Taylor got Nebraska's offense untracked in the third period with his scrambling and passing. The second-ranked Cornhuskers scored on their first three second-half possessions, defeating No. 10 Texas & Oklahoma Saturday night in the sixth annual Kickoff Classic.
The Cornhuskers failed to capitalize on two Texas & AM turnovers in the first half. But Nebraska turned a Tim Jackson interception into the go-ahead touchdown, a 1-yard run by tailback Ken Clark at 10:28 of the third period that gave Nebraska a 12-7 lead.
Taylor was shaken up early in the second half, and Gregg Barbries kicked a 38-yard field goal that brought Nebraska within one point, 7-6, on the Cornhuskers' first second-half possession. But
Taylor returned, becoming the top rushing quarterback in Nebraska history, with 1333 career yards. The Fresno, Calif., senior passed Turner Gill, who had 1317 career yards.
Taylor also teamed up with tight end Todd
Brown and his teammate, Chuck McHown, a 2-yard pass
at 1:37 of the fourth quarter.
Milliken broke a tackle by defensive back William Thomas at the nine and carried two more defenders the final two yards, capping a seven-point drive that gave the Cornhuskers a 7-1 lead.
After being limited to 100 yards in the first half by Texas A&M's super-quick defense, Nebraska rolled up 108 yards in the third period in handing over the ball to Jackson. Jackson in Janker Sherrill's seven years as head coach.
Barrios, a left-looped sophomore filling in for the injured Chris Dremnan, missed his first collegiate
field goal try, from 35 yards. early in the game.
He but went on to tie a kickoff Classic record by connecting from 44, 38 and 48 yards, the last one the longest in the game's history.
The Aggges took a 7-1 lead on Matt Gurley's one-yard plunge at 12:38 of the first period. After that, AAM's only score was a two-yard run by freshman Randy Simmons with 10:15 left in the game, six plays after Nebraska's Dana Brinson fumbled a punt at his 44.
Barrios' final goal, with 7:10 remaining,
accounted for the final margin.
A. crowd of 58,172 attended the game at the 76,000-seat Giants Stadium in 7-degree weather.
Nebraska's victory was its fifth in its last six openers. The Huskers lost to Florida State 17-13 in 1985. Nebraska defeated Penn State 44-6 in the 1983 Kickoff Classic.
Sports Briefs
PICK-UP ALL-SPORTS TICKETS
All-sports tickets admit students to all home football and basketball games and to the Kansas Relays. The all-sports tickets are not
available to non-students.
Students who have purchased materials may pick them up tomorrow or attend appointments, which will be posted in the Allen Field House.
Kansas ticket manager Diane Miller said that there were a few all-sports tickets that hadn't been sold. Students can purchase all-room office at 8 a.m. on Alain Field House from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tickets cost $65.
Season tickets for KU men's basketball are sold out, but football season tickets, $25 for students can be purchased at the athletic center.
TRACK NEEDS WALK-ONS: The Kansas track team is putting out an open invitation for men and women to join the Jayhawk assistary Gary England said women especially were needed in the suit, shut pat and javelin. The women's team has no participants for the event.
"We are looking for talented people who are interested to come
on down and let us take a look.' England said.
Last year, the team also had no women throwers and finished last in both categories. The absence of women in field events severely hampered the Jayhawks
"When you give away three events, that's a lot." he said.
Men are needed in the discus,
shot put, javelin and hammer.
The team now has eight participants.
England said scholarships for walk-ons were available on the women's side.
Those interested should report sometime during the next two
WATHAN GETS CONTRACT:
Just a year to the day after he was named manager of the Kansas City Royals, John Wathan was one year contract Saturday through the end of the 1989 season.
weeks to the track office, 143 Allen Field House
A player and coach in the Royals organization for 17 years. Waltham won both the regular first part of the 16th season before he replaced Billy Gardner as Royals captain.
The Royals were 21-15 in the final 36 games of 1987.