4B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2002
Angels celebrate title at Disneyland, parades
The Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — With Jackie. Autry riding alongside Mickey Mouse, tens of thousands of screaming Angels fans cheered their championship team yesterday at a Disneyland parade.
Manager Mike Scioscia held the World Series trophy aloft in a theme park awash in Angels red, with shirts, hats and faces painted with halos.
Many people lined up outside the theme park before dawn in hopes of getting good seats along what was being called the highway to heaven.
Autry, the widow of Gene Autry, who formed the expansion team in 1961 before selling it to
The Walt Disney Co. rode in the parade with Mickey
Mouse.
A second parade followed, beginning at Arrowhead Pond, home of the NHL's Mighty Ducks, and ending at Edison Field, home of the Angels.
Players, coaches and their families rode on top of a dozen fire trucks and other emergency vehicles to the stadium, where a rally was held.
The parade and rally at Edison Field were free. However, fans had to buy admission to Disneyland and a later event featuring the players at Disney's California
Adventure park. Disney has come under criticism for charging fans for the events at the two parks.
Cherie-Amor Rodriguez, 17, said she got her mother's permission to skip school.
"I probably shouldn't tell you that, but we wanted to make sure we were here," she said from Disneyland.
Disney characters carrying ThunderStix and other paraphernalia took to the streets to rally the crowd.
"I'm here for these wonderful guys called the Angels," Linda Johnen said, She held Thunder-Stix on which she had written. "They are the wind beneath my wings."
Brewers hire former catcher Ned Yost as new manager
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Atlanta Braves coach Ned Yost was hired as manager of the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday, returning to the team where he was a backup catcher in the 1980s.
The 47-year-old Yost agreed to a two-year contract with a club option for 2005. Financial terms were not announced.
"Ned showed great determination for this opportunity," general manager Doug Melvin said in a statement. "He has enthusiasm for the organization and brings a great desire to help us to return to winning baseball."
Yost will replace the fired Jerry Royster, who was fired
after the Brewers finished with a franchise worst56-106 record this season.
Royster replaced Davey Lopes in April.
Melvin's other candidates included Brewers bench coach Cecil Cooper. Arizona Diamondbacks bench coach Bob Melvin (no relation) and New York Yankees third-base coach Willie Randolph.
Yost interviewed for a major league managerial job for the first time with the Brewers.
The 47-year-old Yost has been the Braves' third-base coach the last four seasons, a
position he believes has groomed him to become a manager.
"I'm not sure I was ready four years ago because I'd never been tested," Yost said after interviewing with the Brewers earlier this month.
"I'd never been in situations that were pressure situations. But when you become a third-base coach for a championship caliber team, it's almost like you become a player
"Your decisions have direct impact on a game, and you better make them correctly and you better make them quickly," he said.
Yost was a backup catcher on the 1982 Milwaukee team that won the AL pennant.