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Thursday, September 1. 1994
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Charity causes getting struck out with strike
The Associated Press
Each home run by Kirby Puckett helped a child with a heart problem.
Then came the baseball strike.
Each save by John Franco sent hope to someone with leukemia. Each strikeout by Curt Schilling benefited a person with Lou Gehrig's disease.
No more games meant no more money to national and local charities with tie-ins to player performance. Instead of getting $1,000 for every home run by Bobby Bonilla, the Hackensack Medical Center's Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Foundation has struck out.
Major league baseball said a strike that ends the season could cost charities more than $1 million. That estimate, though, may be rather low.
The Jimmy Fund, the long-time official charity of the Red Sox, could lose $100,000 because of the strike, said director Mike Andrews.
The St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds, among the teams that let charities run their concession stands, have not been able to contribute since the stadiums went dark on Aug. 12.
"We're not taking sides in the strike. We're just on the side of our patients," said Laurie Barish, director of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the ALS Association. "It's just too bad this has happened."
Last year, the Philadelphia Phillies raised $390,000 for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the fatal muscular disorder also called Lou Gehrig's disease.
The Phillies Family Autograph Party and Auction, expected to raise $400,000 for AIS, was scheduled for Aug. 25 and was canceled.
The event has tentatively been reset for Sept. 29, although Barish admitted that "we're really not publicizing any certain date."
"We're hanging onto the hope that this dispute will be resolved and we can pull off this event," she said. "There are a lot of families counting on us."
Shilling has already given $25,000 to ALS as a personal pledge. He and his wife, Shonda, helped bring in more than $80,000 for ALS last year, and is hoping that this year's big autograph party and auction can be saved.
"This is for very unfortunate people," Schilling said. "It's not for players. It's not for owners."
Not all charities have been shut out.
The Texas Rangers still had their Fifth Annual Celebrity Bowling Extravaganza recently, and raised $53,000 for the American Lung Association. Jose Canseco served as co-chairman, although he did not star on the alley, bowling only 73.
The Houston Astros held their Wives Gala and raised about $110,000 for the Houston Area Women's Center, a shelter for battered women.
Several players, meanwhile, were on the golf course for a benefit tournament sponsored by pitcher Pete Harnisch and center fielder Steve Finley.
"We have a Roy Campanella golf tournament coming up in November." said Monique Brandon, director of community affairs for the Los Angeles Dodgers. "That's a near and dear charity to the Dodger family, a benefit for physical therapist scholarship funds. We will still participate."
Missouri faces stadium renovations
Federal regulations disrupt 2,300 seats
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Complying with a federal access law may prove costly to Missouri, university officials said.
The Associated Press
Bringing the Tigers Memorial Stadium into compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act may cost the university up to $1 million a year in lost ticket sales and gift money from disgruntled boosters, athletic
The changes involve removing about 2,300 seats in four field-level rows and replacing them with 140 new seats for people with disabilities, and about 160 companion seats.
director Joe Castiglione said Tuesday.
The ADA requires public buildings to be accessible.
Castiglione said losses could range from $300,000 to $1 million per year.
Loss projections are based on anticipated drops in ticket sales and fewer donations from boosters who have seats in those four rows, Castiglione said.
He could not say how many season ticket-holders sit in the affected seats, but said the rows are popular.
Assistant ticket manager Mike Burke was more optimistic than Castiglione.
"People aren't going to lose their seats," he said. "Everybody will just have to be bumped up or down three rows."
Ticket sales ultimately hinge on the success of the football team, Burke said.
Ticket sales are brisk for Saturday's season open against Tulsa and easily will open 40,000, he said. Last year's
On Monday, the University of Missouri curators' executive committee approved $2.8 million for renovations to the stadium and Faurot Field.
That included $800,000 for ADA compliance, $1.5 million to replace the artificial turf with grass and $600,000 for drainage work to stabilize the hillside that holds a large white "M."
opening game drew 48,427.
The projects will be funded by athletic department reserves, gifts and capital improvement bonds, said university representative Maurice Manning.
Towers in Spain are mainly made of people
Human tower building reflects Catalan pride
The Associated Press
LA BISBAL DEL PENEDES, Spain
-Xavier Alcaraz is a tough, wiry 20-year-old who's used to getting stepped on.
He is a "casteller" — a member of one of 32 groups in Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia who climb on top of each other to build 50-foot-high human towers.
"It's a strange mixture of art and sport, but there are no stars like in soccer," said Alcaraz, who came to a recent festival in this small town 50 miles southwest of Barcelona to watch three of Catalonia's best groups — or "colles" — put on an exhibition.
But human tower-building is more than just a curious pastime for Alcaraz and his fellow castellers. It's one of the most visible representations of the strong Catalan regional identity.
"This is about solidarity, people working together. It's endurance, balance and strength. It's something that's only ours," Alcaraz said."When
Spain likes to advertise its difference from the rest of Europe. Likewise, Catalonia is Spain's wealthiest and most non-Spanish region — a fact that Catalans often note with an air of superiority that can grate on Spaniards from other regions.
By the turn of the century, "castells" fell out of style. The tradition almost was lost entirely when Gen Francisco Franco suppressed manifestations of regional cultures across Spain during his 36-year dictatorial rule.
I was younger, I had this romantic idea of an independent Catalan nation. Now I see Spain as a state where different nations co-exist."
Like so many other things in Spain, castells have undergone a rebirth since Franco's death in 1975 and the subsequent restoration of democracy. They have become particularly fashionable in the last decade and received a big boost with worldwide TV coverage during the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
The competition is friendly. There are no prizes or money awards,
The tower-building dates back at least 200 years and probably grew out of traditional dances, eventually becoming more important than the dances themselves.
though fans know clearly who had a good day and who didn't.
Montserratt Colome, a nurse from nearby Villafranca and one of several thousand spectators on hand for this event, winced when her hometown "colla" aborted the first two attempts at building a nine-story high tower. But the third time was a charm.
"We Catalans are a very obstinate people," she said. "When we want something, we get it — no matter the difficulty."
It takes between 200 and 300 people to build a nine-story castell, almost all of them concentrated at the base, known as the "pinya", or pine cone. The second story is usually made up of several dozen people. The remaining stories are composed of two to five people standing on each others' shoulders.
The key accessory is a waist saft that provides a hand and foot grip as climbers step from knee to hip to shoulder scaling the tower. The tower is capped by small children who are nimble and fearless enough to get to the top.
Castellers typically wear white trousers, a brightly colored blouse displaying the group's colors, and soft-soled slippers.
If the base is solid, the castells go up in two or three minutes. The castell is complete only when the top member raises a hand salute — a "filaleda."
There is no record of a castell ever reaching 10 stories, although various configurations of nine are fairly common.
Frightening spills are common, but serious injuries are infrequent. Most who tumble land on the padding of hundreds of people working below. Only one death is known this century; that of a young boy killed in a fall in 1983.
The language of castells is Catalan, a Romance language that Franco tried to stamp out. It resembles both Spanish and French and has seven million speakers — more than either Danish or Finnish.
Fifteen years ago there were only about 10 colles in Catalonia. Now there are 32, and each is composed of people of all ages and professions. Young women began participating several years ago and are often visible high atop the towers.
"I got into it because my whole family was — uncles, cousins, my father" said Francina Cortes Pallares, 18. "When I was younger I climbed up, now I work in the pack below."
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