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Friday, November 17, 1995
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Mo Vaughn takes MVP in AL
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Mo Vaughn beat out Albert Belle for the American League MVP award yesterday in one of the closest elections ever, a vote that called into question whether the Cleveland star's surinness cost him the honor.
The two sluggers tied for the league RBI lead with 126. Belle, however, led the majors with 50 home runs and became the first player to get 100 extra-base hits since Stan Musial in 1948.
Belle has earned a reputation, however, for being uncooperative and downright rude to reporters, who do the voting. He is expected to be penalized by major league baseball this month for betaling a television reporter at the World Series, although that outburst came after all 28 ballots were
returned.
"I guess it really does say something," Vaughn said at a news conference in Boston, held at a center where he founded a youth development program. "People are looking at the whole thing and saying that it's just not numbers."
A letter that accompanies the official ballot to members of the Baseball Writers Association of America lists the five rules to consider. The third guideline: "General character, disposition, loyalty and effort."
Vaughn hit .300 with 39 home runs as the first baseman for the AL East champion Boston Red Sox. Belle batted .317 as an All-Star outfielder for the Indians, who had the best record in baseball.
Vaughn received 12 first-place votes, 12 seconds and four thirds
for a total of 308 points. Belle had
11 first-place votes, 10 seconds and
seven thirds for 300 points. Had just
one more first-place vote changed
positions. Belle would have won.
"I know that he had some great numbers," Vaughn said. "If it's numbers, he probably would win."
Seattle designated hitter Edgar Martinez received four first-place votes and was third with 244 points, and Indians reliever Jose Mesa got the other first-place vote and was fourth with 130.
The eight-point margin between Vaughn and Belle was the ninth closest in MVP history and the closest since Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez tied for the 1979 NL honor.
Vaughn became the ninth Boston player to win the MVP and the first since Roger Clemens in 1986.
Oakland A's hire former Astros skipper
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics ended their three-week search for a new manager yesterday by hiring Art Howe, a former skipper of the Houston Astros.
Howe signed a two-year contract with a club option to renew for a third season. He succeeds Tony La Russa, who resigned to manage the St. Louis Cardinals.
The A's, who finished last in the American League's Western Division, are in the midst of a youth movement and have new ownership.
Howe, who served as bench coach for the Colorado Rockies last season, said he hoped to repeat the success of La Russa, who won
three AL pennants and a World Championship.
"My goal is to try to get us back to that kind of level," Howe said. "I feel very good about the opportunity here, the challenge, and I think, given the time, I could do it."
New owner Steve Schott said Howe's hiring fit into the team's new strategy.
"This is a major step in our rebuilding process, and we're on our way," he said. "I'm extremely confident he's going to build a winning and competitive team."
The selection process included eight candidates, and Howe's hiring fills the last remaining managerial vacancy in the major leagues.
Howe has been seeking a chance to manage again since the Astros
fired him in 1993.
A's outfielder Stan Javier, who played against Howe's teams in winter ball and when he was with the Dodgers and Philadelphia in 1990-92, told the San Francisco Examiner: "I always liked him when he was a manager at Houston. What I saw was a low-key guy off the field — I talked to him a few times — but a pretty aggressive manager in games."
Although Howe never played or worked in the A's organization, he managed in the Puerto Rican winter league in 1979 and 1980, where his players was Billy Beane, A's assistant general manager.
Bob Cluck, the A's roving minor league pitching instructor, was the Astros' pitching coach under Howe.
Panel includes former Jayhawk Sayers on squad
BIG EIGHT FOOTBALL
All-time football team honors league's best
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Barry Sanders and Billy Sims were chosen to The Associated Press AllTime Big Eight Football Team.
But there was no room for three other Heisman winners — Steve Owens, Mike Rozier and Rashan Salaam — on the team selected by a panel of 12 longtime Big Eight observers.
The top vote-getters, with 10 votes each, were center Dave Rimington of Nebraska and defensive linemen Selmon and Rich Glover of Nebraska.
The panel selected Nebraska's Tom Osborne as the all-time Big Eight coach. Rodgers, who played at Nebraska in the early 1970s, and Lee Roy Selmon, an Oklahoma defensive lineman in the mid-1970s, were chosen the Big Eight's all-time offensive and defensive players.
In addition to Oklahoma's Owens, Nebraska's Rozier and Colorado's Salaam, three players who won either the Lombardi or Outland trophies were left out — Tony Casillas of Oklahoma and Will Shields and Larry Jacobson of Nebraska.
Sims, winner of the Heisman at.
Oklahoma in 1978, and Gale Sayers, who was a consensus All-American at Kansas in 1963 and 1964, were the running backs chosen by the panel.
The panel picked wide receivers Hart Lee Dykes, who set career and single-season receiving records for Oklahoma State in the mid-80s, and Rodgers, the Heisman winner from Nebraska's 1972 national champions.
Keith Jackson, Oklahoma's two time All-American of the mid-80s, was the tight end.
Rimington, who in 1981 became the only lineman ever chosen Big Eight Offensive Player of the Year, was the center.
Dean Steinkuhler, winner of the Outland Trophy for Nebraska's 1983 team, was the leading vote-getter among the other offensive linemen. Joining him were Nebraska's Zach Wiegert, the 1994 Outland Award winner, Greg Roberts, winner of the Outland in 1978 at Oklahoma, and Joe Romig, a Rhodes Scholar and two-time All-American in 1960-61 at Colorado.
Sanders, whose junior year at Oklahoma State in 1988 was one of the greatest single seasons of any offensive player, was chosen as kick returner. Sanders won the Heisman by rushing for an NCAA-record 2,628 vards.
The placekicker was Uwe von Schamann, who made 99.3 percent of his extra points for Oklahoma.
In a conference rich with option quarterbacks, voters went with a
brilliant passer for the all-time team — Kansas State's Lynn Dickey, who threw for 6,208 yards and 29 touchdowns from 1968 to 1970.
Salmon won both the Outland and Lombardi awards and was instrumental in Oklahoma's national championships in 1974 and 1975. Glover was the star nose guard for Nebraska's national championship teams in 1970 and 1971 and a double winner of the Outland and Lombardi awards.
Nebraska defensive end Willie Harper, who threw opponents for a combined 219 yards in losses from 1970 to 1972, also was chosen for the defensive line with Leslie O'Neal, a two-time All-American for Oklahoma State in the mid-80s.
Rod Shoate, a two-time consensus All-American for Oldahoma in 1973-74, was chosen at linebacker with Brian Bosworth, an All-American at Oklahoma in 1985-86. Also picked at linebacker was Gary Spani.
Missouri and Oklahoma earned all four defensive back positions. Roger Wehrli was All-American for the Tigers in 1968 while also leading the nation in punt returns. Johnny Roland led Missouri in rushing before becoming an All-American defensive back in 1965.
Randy Hughes, an All-American at Oklahoma in 1974, and Rickey Dixon, an All-American for the Sooners in 1987, filled out the defensive backfield.
The punter was Colorado's Barry Helton.
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