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Yankees' Showalter wins AL title
The Associated Press
Youngest manager in league takes it away
Showalter became the first Yankees manager to win the award, created in 1983, after leading New York to the best record in the league. The Yankees were 70-43 and in position for their first playoff spot since 1981 when the players' strike stopped the season Aug. 12.
NEW YORK — Buck Showalter, who brought calm to a New York Yankees club often beset by controversy, was the overwhelming choice Tuesday for American League manager of the year.
He also is the first manager to survive three straight years since George Steinbrenner bought the team before the 1973 season. The Boss has changed managers 19 times overall.
Showalter, 38, is the youngest manager in the majors.
"In my profession, the reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do more," Showalter said.
Showalter received 24 of 28 first-place votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of
America. He also got four second-place votes and finished with 132 points.
Mike Hargrove, who had Cleveland in contention for its first postseason slot since 1954, got the other four first-place votes and finished with 86 points. Chicago's Gene Lamont, who narrowly beat Showalter for the award last season, was third with 17 and Oakland's Tony La Russa was fourth with 10.
Kansas City's Hal McRae was fifth and Boston's Butch Hobson was the only other manager to receive a vote. McRae and Hobson, along with Baltimore's Johnny Oates, Texas' Kevin Kennedy and Tom Trebelhorm of the Chicago Cubs, were fired after the season ended.
ball's best and most dynamic players — did not show proper respect for the game because they wore their hats backwards and kept their jerseys untucked.
Felipe Alou, who guided Montreal to a 74-40 record, won the NL manager of the year award Monday.
Under Showalter, the disputes between players, management and Steinbrenner that frequently distracted the Yankees in the past seemed to disappear. He managed to settle problems before they reached the press or the owner.
The biggest controversy in the clubhouse this year was started by Showalter himself. Shortly before the All-Star game, he was quoted as saying Ken Griffey Jr. and Barry Bonds — two of base-
"In my profession, the reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do more."
Buck Showalter New York Yankees Manager
Griffey and Bonds both shot back at Showalter, who did not deny his comments but wisely let the storm die down.
Showalter, who has spent 18 years in the Yankees system as a player, coach and manager, has guided the team to steady improvement. His career record is 234-203, and his contract runs through 1995.
Throwbacks to victory
The San Francisco 49ers lead the way in victories in the throwback uniforms that celebrate the NFL's 75th year. Teams who are undefeated in their outdated duds:
San Francisco 49ers 4-0 1-2 5-2 1955: 4-8
San Diego Chargers 3-0 3-0 6-0 1961: 12-2
Buffalo Bills 2-0 2-3 4-3 1965: 10-3-1
Minnesota Vikings 2-0 2-2 4-2 1961: 3-11
SOURCE: National Football League, news reports
Knight-Ridder Tribune
NHL players off to Europe as league's strike drags on
The Associated Press
Forget about the NLA. Ehs Tikkanen and Christian Ruutu have IFK. And Jarkko Varvio has HPF.
They are only some of the locked-out NHL players finding work elsewhere these days — in this case, Finland.
Kurri and another NHL star, Teemu Selanne, are in Helsinki preparing to play with reigning Finnish champions Jokerit of Helsinki while the current labor problems continue in the NHL.
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), hockey's international governing body, has reversed its ruling not to permit NHL players to perform in Europe.
Chairman Rene Fasel made the announcement Sunday, after instructions from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
Other NHL players will also make their debuts with European
teams.
Varvio of the Dallas Stars will play for HPK of Hameenlinna, and 412-game NHL veteran Mikko Makela of the Boston Bruins will play for Ives of Tampere, of which he is a co-owner.
Quebec's Peter Forsberg has gone home to Sweden and is considering playing for his former team, MoDo.
NHL spokesman Arthur Pincus said Monday that no new negotiations are planned at this point.
Meanwhile, the NHL lockout went into its 18th day, with five more postponed games bringing the total to 98 so far.
Bettman and union boss Bob Goodenow haven't spoken since Oct.11, when the owners rejected the players' latest proposal.
Said Goodenow: "Considering they rejected our last proposal, and their current position, there's not much to talk about."
Baseball talks return to bargaining table, again
The Associated Press
The siders haven't formally talked in 40 days. Owners still demand a salary cap, and players say they'll never accept one.
WASHINGTON — Baseball players and owners finally resumed negotiations yesterday, this time with new mediator W.J. Usery. Still, it's clear the sides didn't have much to talk about.
"Tomorrow is a day the process begins, and we'll go from there," acting commissioner Bud Selig said Tuesday.
Eleven members of the management's bargaining group met Tuesday in Washington with Richard Ravitch, the head negotiator. Fehr said several players were planning to attend today's meeting, just the fourth since the union struck Aug. 12.
Usery, picked by the Clinton Administration last Friday, is considered the top mediator in the country.
The sides last met Sept. 9, five days before owners canceled the World Series for the first time since 1904.
Boston chief executive officer John Harrington and Colorado chairman Jerry McMorris, who appear to be the owners the union feels most comfortable with, will be at the meeting. So will Selig's daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb, the Brewers' general counsel.
"He's a very aggressive guy, and I like that. Seljr said of Usery."
Other owners attending the talks are Jerry Reinsdorf of the Chicago White Sox and Drayton McLane of the Houston Astros.
They will be joined by Atlanta Braves chairman Bill Bartholomay, Kansas City Royals CEO David Glass, Chicago Cubs president Andy MacPhail, Braves president Stan Kasten, former St. Louis CEO Stuart Meyer and Philadelphia executive vice president Dave Montgomery.
As the sides prepared for the meeting, free agent filing continued Tuesday. Seventeen players filed, raising the total to 39. The group included California outfielder Bo Jackson, St. Louis first baseman Greg Jefferies and New York Mets reliever John Franco.
Four players who were potentially eligible saw their 1995 options exercised: Philadelphia outfielder Jim Eisenreich ($1.2 million), Chicago White Sox catcher Mike L瓦丽蒂 (£750,000), White Sox pitcher Atele Hammaker (about £190,000) and Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Jef Treadwell (£500,000).
Philadelphia decided against exercising outfielder Pete Incaviglia's $1.2 million option, instead paying him a $200,000 buyout. The Philies declined to exercise a $2 million option on Norm Charlton, who didn't pitch at all in 1994 because of injury.
Philadelphia declined to exercise a $3.25 million option on reliever Doug Jones, instead paying a $250,000 buyout. The Mets declined to exercise a $3.6 million option on outfielder Kevin McReynolds.
Clubs had to decide yesterday whether to offer salary arbitration — which they want to eliminate — to 42 players covered by the restriction against repeat free agency within a 5-year span.
Among the players in that group are San Francisco outfielder Darryl Strawberry and California outfielder Chili Davis. Atlanta decided Tuesday against offering arbitration to third baseman Terry Pendleton, and the Dodgers said they wouldn't offer it to pitcher Kevin Gross.
Five players covered by the repeater rights restriction were able to file for free agency Tuesday because their clubs waived their right to offer arbitration: Detroit pitcher Storm Davis, Kansas City pitcher Gubicza, Milwaukee second baseman Jody Reed, Philadelphia second baseman Mariano Duncan and Incaviglia.
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