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University Daily Kansan
Sports
Monday. April 7, 1986
Howser turns adversity into success
United Press International
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Dick Howser's knack for dealing with adversity is well documented. Now comes the tough part: coping with success.
However, the 49-year-old Kansas City Royals manager, exuded the quiet
Dick Howser
Not after what happened in 1980
confidence his young team needed last October as his team rallied from 3-1 deficits in both the playoffs and World Series. As he begins a new season with a Kansas City club which is top heavy in pitching, Howser is perhaps the least likely manager to be victimized by complacency.
That was the year Howser, in his first full season as a major-league manager, guided the Yankees to the American League East title with a 103-59 mark. After three straight losses to Kansas City in the playoffs, the Yankees packed away the team. So did Howser — permanently.
Howser, who never publicly blasted Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for the shocking dismissal, landed in Kansas City the next August as the first working relationship with General Manager John Schuerholz.
critical to this team's development."
"When we committed ourselves to kids in 1984," Schuerohrz said, "we couldn't have done that with a manager who was overly concerned about his personal goals. Dick was the right manager at the right time for us. His handling of the club, especially in '84, was absolutely
After a drug-scarred 1983 season left the Royals at a 79-83 crossroads, Howser nursed a kiddie corps pitching staff to the American League West crown the next season. The Royals finished 84-78, despite having their starting lineup intact for just 50 games. Willie Wilson was suspended for six weeks and a knee injury kept George Brett out until mid-May, yet Howser never cracked as the Royals fell eight games behind on July 18. A closing 42-25 run won the West and gave birth to the 1985 championship sound.
"The key as a manager is to be able to talk to your GM and you both agree to do things a certain way." Howser said. "The people I work for don't panic. You can't decide to go with a young pitcher and then one-third of the way through the season say we made a mistake. This job is a pressure cooker anyway and you
don't need any added pressure from upstairs."
The Royals were 13th in a 14-team league last year in batting average and runs scored. It was Howser's calm that kept his club competitive after falling $ _{7/2} $ games out of first in late July.
Howser, a shortstop for eight major-league seasons in the 1960s, said his reserved, self-effacing manner was often misinterpreted.
"This team was good before Dick Hoswer got here and they'll be good after I'm gone," he said. "The farm system is very productive, and they've made some damn good deals. My contribution is to provide consistency. I've been on good clubs and bad clubs, and I don't get rattled."
"People look at me and say I'm low-key, but I not," Howser says, lifting up his blue-rimmed sunglasses. "Low-key means you're able to accept defeat."
Cards beats Royals at spring season end
United Press International
Jose Oquendo hit three singles and scored twice, and Andy Van Slyke hit a two-run homer to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 7-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals yesterday in Memphis, Penn. Steve Balboni hit two home runs for the Royals, who lost for the second straight day to the team they beat in the 1985 World Series.
In other exhibition games yesterday:
At Chandler, Ariz., the Cleveland Indians blasted four pitches in an 11-run six inning, which led to a 13-1 rout over the Milwaukee Brewers. The Indians, who led 2-1 after five innings, sent hitters to the plate in the sixth inning and put the game out of reach.
At Greenville, S.C., Claudel Washington had two hits and scored a hit and helped the Atlanta Braves to a 4-1 victory over their Double-A Greenville farm team of the Southern League. Atlanta led the National League with 18 spring training victories.
At Birmingham, Ala., Tom Moritz, Mike Yastrzemski and Mike lifted Double-A Birmingham to a 5-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Moritz homered and doubled off losing pitcher Floyd Bannister, Taylor and Yastrzemski hit home run. Red Sox Yastrzemski is the son of former Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski.
At St. Petersburg, Fla., Mike Stevens's pinch-hit, bases-loaded single in the 11th innning scored Rafael Belliard and gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 2-1 victory over the New York Mets.
At Oklahoma City, Steve Trout
had a no-hitter through five innings
and finished with a three-hitter over seven innings,
Shawn Dunston went 3-for-4 with
three RBI and four runs and carried the Chicago Cubs to a 13-2 exhibition victory over the Texas Rangers.
At San Francisco, Chili Davis, Chris Brown and Will Clark provided run-scoring hits in the first inning and sparked the San Francisco Giants to a 5-3 victory over the Oakland A's. Dave Kingman hit his third home run of the spring in the fourth inning for the A's.
At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dave Winfield hit a grand slam and Willie Randolph belted a three-run homer and powered the New York Yankees to a 16-1 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays. Rook Bob Tewksbury scattered five hits over six innings to improve to 4-1 in the spring. Tewksbury, the Yankees fourth starter, struck out three while walking none. He gave up one unearned run.
At Kissimmee, Fla., Phil. Garner's garner run keyed a 13-hit Houston attack, helping the Astros to a 6-2 victory over the Tucson Toros, their Pacific Coast League farm club. Garner's second homer of the spring, a two-run seventh-inning shot, broke open a 4-2 game. Rookie outfield Tony Walker and veteran Kevin Bass each had three hits.
At Anaheim, Calif., Doug DeCinces drove in four runs with a homer, a single and a sacrifice飞 and carried the California Angels to a 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Angles won the rubber match of the three-game Freeway Series before a crowd of 61,538, despite Terry Whitfield's two homers and five RBI.
At Vancouver, B.C. Ivan Calderon's two-run homer keyed a three-run eight inning and gave the Seattle Mariners an 8-7 victory and three-game sweep over the Montreal Expos in a weekend exhibition series.
Ueberroth institutes drug-testing policy
United Press International
NEW YORK — In his continued effort to make baseball a drug-free sport, commissioner Peter Uebere Roth has instituted a drug-testing plan for major leaguers that will require each player to submit to drug testing four times a year for the next two years.
The commissioner explained his plan in a five-page letter that was distributed to all major-league players Saturday. In addition to players, umpires and all full-time front-office personnel will be tested.
Ueberroth told the players in the letter that there would be no penalty for players who tested positive for drugs the first time. The results will be kept confidential between doctor and player. Team management and the commissioner will not have access to them.
Anthony F. Daly and Kim Jasper, doctor of pharmacology, both of Los Angeles, will be in charge of the testing. Daly served as the team doctor for the United States during the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games, and was the Director of Health Services in 1984. Jasper was the Director of
Doping Control at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
According to the letter, doctors will look for traces of marijuana, cocaine, morphine and heroin. The testing will be done and the samples submitted between March and October.
Donald Fehr, the executive director of the Players Association, refused to comment on the commissioner's plan. However, major league baseball and the Players Association have been working diligently for several months to formulate a drug plan.
According to the letter, a urine specimen will be collected under the direct supervision of a trained medical technician at major- and minor-league ballparks. Daly will be at each team's initial testing session to answer questions and to assure players of confidentiality.
Each specimen will be divided into two containers, sealed against tampering and coded, to protect the anonymity of the individual involved while being secured for transportation to the testing laboratory.
Once at the laboratory, one sample will be analyzed and the other will be stored for confirmatory tests.
CINCINNATI — Pete Rose sat in the Cincinnati dugout yesterday, watched his Reds practice and tried to prepare himself for a let-down today.
United Press International
Illness forces Rose to miss first opener
For the first time in his 24-year career, Rose won't play in a season opener.
Because of an illness at spring training, Rose will start the season on the 15-day disabled list. That means the player-manager will be eligible for a game when his Reds open the season at the Philadelphia Phillys today.
"I'll be thinking I'm playing," said Rose, doing his best to psych himself up for an Opening Day he knows he will spend on the bench. "I'll be in the game."
"Sure, I'd love to be the Opening-Day first baseman, there's going to be a huge crowd here, said Rose, looking around and over the Riverfront Stadium, which was sold out weeks ago for Opening Day.
"It will be an empty feeling if a situation comes up where I feel I could have helped the team and I can't. But if we get a lot of runs early and win the game, I'll feel OK.
"Even though I don't play, I'll be sure be part of the game. I may decide the game with a right or wrong decision. I just won't be on the Star of the Game show. I sure hope one of my players is, though."
Rose, who will celebrate his 45th birthday April 15 and be eligible to play again April 18, has been on the disabled list only one other time — when he broke his thumb in 1968.
While Rose said he hated to miss the start of the season, he admitted he wasn't ready to play yet.
"I'm just not ready because I wasn't able to do the things in spring training I wanted to do and that's because I had a couple of aliments," he said. "I had the flu and for four or five days I couldn't do anything, I was dead tired."
"I'm getting better every day, but I'm still not 100 percent. I think it'll take me another week and a
half before I feel I'm ready to play."
Along with Rose missing an opener, another tradition drops by the wayside in Cincinnati today. The Reds, traditional hosts of baseball's opener, will be upstaged by Tigers, their Tigers. The Tigers will start their games at 12:30, while the Reds won't play at 1:05 p.m.
"Who cares if they start a half-hour before us." Rose said. "You could start a game two days ago in Detroit and not have the same kind of atmosphere you have in Cincinnati. Even in Tutkultu, they know that the baseball season opener is really in Cincinnati."
Reds' owner Marge Schott had a suggestion: "We're going to turn our watches back an hour."
Rose sitting on the bench provides an intriguing backdrop for the return of former Reds' outfielder Gary Redus to Cincinnati. Redus criticized Rose late season for playing too much and in the off-season was traded to Philadelphia.
Redus will lead off against the Reds today.
"I don't think the fans will boo me for what I said." Redus said yesterday after roaming a familiar outfield in an unfamiliar uniform. "I think a lot of people are going to miss me in Cincinnati. I think they enjoyed seeing me play.
"I don't necessarily have to go 4-for 4 tomorrow, but I would like to contribute in some sort of way. I hope we win by 10 runs."
Today's starting pitchers, Steve Carlton and Mario Soto, are both trying to rebound from poor season. Soto was 12-15 in 1985, his first losing season since his 1977 rookie year.
Carlton, 41, suffered both a 18-record and a sore shoulder that put him on the disabled list for 72 days last year.
"Carlton is 100 percent healthy right now," John Felske, Philadelphia manager, said. "We're coming out to win tomorrow and I wouldn't put him on the mound if I didn't think he gives us a great chance to win."
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In essence, the Model D provides no loss of system functionality-indeed an increase of functionality - in a package that requires 28% less desk space than most competitive systems - all at a price of just $1495.
The Model D is more than the equivalent of a $3000 IBM PC. It provides integrated support for both RGB color and high resolution monochrome displays. In addition, graphics support is provided for the more popular business programs on the standard hi-res monochrome monitor. This is a feature not provided for on IBM's text only monochrome system. The user can also expand the system to its full 640K memory capacity by simply adding chips to the system board. This allows lower cost memory expansion while conserving valuable expansion slots; the Model D has four slots, all available to the user.
The base Model D includes a clean high resolution monitor, 256K, 2 disk drives, parallel and serial ports and a clock/calendar. The keyboard addresses IBM-user complains with typewriter layout and extra large return and shift keys. The system comes with a full 1 year warranty. Add to this Leading Edge's reputation for quality support and service, and Model D may be the premier IBM compatible PC on the market.
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