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Tuesday, April 9, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
1996 KU Graduates STAY TRUE TO THE CRIMSON AND BLUE
Wherever you go after that memorable walk down the Hill, KU will be with you. Your KU Alumni Association includes more than 45,000 members, grads like you who carry the KU banner worldwide.
These special benefits are Yours!
- Free six-month Alumni Association membership for all 1996 graduates. Your benefits begin automatically April 1 and last through Sept. 30. You'll receive three issues of Kansas Alumni magazine featuring news from the Hill and Class Notes on the activities of your fellow alumni. Let us know your new address so we can keep your benefits coming.
- Free six-month Learned Club membership from April 1 - Sept. 30. Sign up at the Alumni Center.
- Put a 'Hawk in your pocket.
Apply for the Javahawk
Apply for the Jayhawk
bank card,
1-800-222-7458.
BONUS! Sign up
for a bank card at
the Graduate
Cookout April 24 and receive a FREE Jayhawk license plate frame.
Plus fun and free events! Meet alumni staff on Wescoe Beach April 15 and 16.
- Enjoy free burgers and 50¢ draws (with I.D.) at the Class of '96 Graduate Cookout sponsored by the Student Alumni Association April 24. (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
- Tour the Alumni Association May 9 and 10. Call 864-4760.
for the Hill hike at the Commencement Breakfast May 19. (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
- Get psyched for the Hill hike at the
Watch for your 1996 New Alumni Handbook coming soon to your mailbox!
KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Adams Alumni Center,1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 60044-3169
Baseball injuries continue
Bad weather, luck and karma blamed for full disabled list
The Associated Press
Darren Daulton said he was "hurting the team." Ramon Martinez "felt a pop," and Gregg Jefferies tried but couldn't fix his thumb.
Gentlemen, welcome to the disabled list. Sorry about the misfortune, but at least you got to play. That hasn't been the case for some of your peers already on the DL, an All-Star roster of baseball's injured.
Oakland's Mark McGwire, Minnesota's Kirby Puckett and Rick Agilera, Colorado's Bret Saberhagen, Cincinnati's Jose Rijo, California's Lee Smith, Houston's John Hudek and the New York Yankees' Tony Fernandez and Tim Raines head the roll call of players nursing ailments incurred last season or during spring training.
And, the list keeps growing.
Martinez will be absent from the Dodgers for two weeks after straining a groin muscle while trying to run out a grounder in frigid Chicago Saturday. Jefferies tore a thumb ligament with a headfirst dive in the Phillies' third game of the season and will sit for at least two months.
Daulton became the latest big name added. The three-time All-Star was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday so he can return to Florida to rehabilitate the right knee he tore last August. Phillies manager Jim Fregosli fought back tears after Daulton made his announcement, leading to speculation that the 34-year-old catcher-turned-outfielder may soon retire.
Pitcher Bill Pulsipher, one of the young New York Mets expected to return the franchise to glory, found out early last week that the "twinge" he felt in his left elbow in Florida was a torn ligament and will require season-ending surgery.
What's going on here? Why are big leaguers falling to the injury bu? Some reasons:
Bad weather. Unusually cold temperatures froze players and fans during the season's first week. Snow and rain forced seven postponements, including two in Cleveland and Philadelphia. Even Texas had a rare rain-out.
The Dodgers and Cubs endured freezing temperatures at Wrigley Field during their four-game series. On Saturday, Martinez hit a grounder, ran three steps and stumbled. He was helped off the field and will be sideline for
"That's the first time I had a groin injury like that," Martinez said.
two weeks.
Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda thinks he knows why
"Here's a guy in the best of shape," said Lasorda. "He does more running than anybody you'll see, and he pulls a groin muscle. Why? Because of the cold weather." Lasorda complained earlier in the week when umpires made the teams play despite snow, rain and a 12-degree wind chill.
— Bad luck. Jefferies was 0-for-9 over the first two games when he lined a pitch off the right-field wall in Philadelphia. He saw Colorado right fielder Dante Bichette display the ball, headed for third and dived into the bag.
"When I slid into third, both hands actually got stuck in the dirt," Jefferies said. "I tried to pull it back into place, but it didn't work, obviously."
He's expected to miss two months. "It's very frustrating," he said, fighting back tears.
"I told him to slide, but I didn't tell him to slide headfirst." third base coach Larry Rowe said.
Pitchers David West, Tyler Green, Curt Schilling and Bobby Munoz, along with infielder Mike Benjamin and outfielder Longmire — all injured during spring training — were already on the Phillies' DL.
"Let's hope it's not contagious," second baseman Mickey Morandini said. "But we've had them before, and we'll have to deal with it."
— Bad karma. Injuries keep finding McGwire. Problems with his left foot wrecked his 1994 and 1995 seasons, and now a right foot injury has him shelved. The A's feared he'd be out until the All-Star break, but recently gave the slugger permission to take batting practice.
Like the Phillies, the Twins have been tailed by misfortune. Puckett had his jaw broken by Cleveland's Dennis Martinez in the home finale last season. Then in spring training, shortstop Denny Hocking's upper jaw was broken by a smash off Jose Canseco's bat.
In the final 10 days of spring training, Hocking, Aguilera, Puckett and catcher Matt Walbeck all went on the 15-day disabled list. To make matters worse, second baseman Chuck Knoblauch was hit on the left hip with the first pitch of the season and on the same spot the next day.
"We've had a lot of bad luck around here," pitcher LaTroy Hawkins said. "We're going to try and stop it right now."
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