e14 Thursday, October 5, 1989 / University Daily Kansan New coach leaps net for job --- Ex-KU player will guide women's tennis team Michael Center prepares the tennis team for a tournament. By Andres Caveller Kansan sportswriter Michael Center, the new Kansas women's tennis coach, could not pass up the opportunity to return to Kansas. Center, who was an assistant coach in 1967, was officially hired Sept. 28, said Scott Perelman, director of tennis. Since his arrival, Center has had six practices with the women. "It was an opportunity to work with Coach Perelman again." Center said. "I really enjoy this area. This is my home. I just felt very comfortable here." "I felt it was a great opportunity to work with an already- established program. I'm enjoying it a lot." cower, 25, of Manhattan, Kan., said that he had known Perelman for seven years. They met each other in 1962 when he came to play for Kansas. He played for four years and coached as an assistant for a year after graduation in 1986. "I am really pleased he wants to make coaching a profession," Perelman said. "It's really positive to have somebody that has grown up in the program to come back. He is here to help us build a big-time women's program, and we are on the right track. Porelman said that they needed to start recruiting for next year and that Center would be an excellent recruiter. back. "He knows the University well, and he understands the academics here. He has a lot of pride in the program." During the first six weeks of the fall season, Perelman, coached the women. Eric Hayes, former women's coach, was hired by the University of South Florida before school started. Center said he was going to break his players' games down this fall so he could focus on various aspects of their games. He said he was fortunate to work with such a talented and nammy Pela, Santa Monica, Calif., junior, said Center recruited her in 1987, but she never thought he would be her coach after she came to Kansas. She said Perelman and Center would get along well because both of them had similar work ethics. young group of players. "He seems to be on top of everything," she said. "He seems to care a lot for the program." Renee Raychaudhuri, Ossining, N.Y., sophomore, said that Center was a lot like Perelman because he had played and worked for him. Center spent last year working with the United States Tennis Association in Springfield, Ohio, for nine months, he said. He was coordinating programs for the association's Western region. Center said that he applied for the post in late August as soon as the job came open. Center, who has a degree in broadcast management, said that after he coached for a year, he went to graduate school from summer 1987 to fall 1988. Center said he was still in the process of defending his thesis in sports administration and psychology. This weekend, Center will take the women to their first tournament, the Southwest State Missouri Invitational in Springfield, Mo. "We are going to take everybody down there and give them a chance to play," he said. "We have been working hard at practice. This will be a good chance to get out and play some matches." Center and the women leave today for Springfield, only a week after he took the job. "I knew I really wanted to come back to college athletics," Center said. "I am enjoying working with the girls and with the people in the Athletic Department. "It's fun. It's a lot of fun. My previous job was office work behind a desk." Pitcher was scolded for striking out Ruth The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jimmy Zinn says he may be the only pitcher to ever draw dirty looks from his boss for striking out Babe Ruth. It happened more than 79 years ago when Zinn was brand new with the Pittsburgh Pirates and he faced baseball's most famous slugger in an exhibition game with the New York Yankees. "My chest was all tight when they told me I was going to pitch," the 59-year-old Zim said recently at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center where he was being treated for a neck disorder. "It was my first presentation to the home crowd, so I wanted to make a good showing, and in the first doggone immin. Baba Rih came to hat." Zinn said the count was 2-2 and the catcher signaled for a curveball. "Babe wasn't expecting the curve," Zinn said. "He took just a little half-swing - and missed. Jimmy Zinn had struck out Babe Ruth." Zinn said he was feeling pretty pleased with himself until he ran into George Gibson, his manager, while leaving the field. "He stopped me and said, "What the hell are you trying to do here? We've got 40,000 people here to see Baba Hirt hit home runs and you strike him out," Zinn said. Later, in the ninth inning, Ruth did homer. "We had to pitch a little extra in the ninth to make sure Babe came to bat again." Zhm said. "We had to get him back to the plate." Zinn, who was born in Arkansas in 1865, joined the major leagues in 1919 after driving an ambulance in Europe in World War I. He started with the Philadelphia Athletics but soon left to play in Wichita Falls in the League Championship. He could make more money in the mallmen. He moved to Pittsburgh in 1920 and then joined Kansas City of the American Association in 1922. He was with Kansas City for seven years before moving to the major leagues once more when he joined the Cleveland Indians in 1929. He was 4-6 with the Indians and hit .311 before returning to the minors where he played and coached until 1940. Bill Dean, a researcher with the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., said Zinn was 12th on the list of oldest living former major-leaguers as of last April. 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