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Show The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., July 10, 1970 Sporltecqpe Bowie Blew It Star Vote A Farce Baseball and Bowie Kuhn definitely blew it this year by returning die All-Stvoting to die tans via the computerized ballot. By itself, the idea of returning the vote to the fans was not that bad, but Im afraid Mr. Kuhn and his cohorts gave the fans more credit than they deserved. They reasoned that baseball fans, receiving the All-Stvote for the first time in 13 years, would take the time to make thoughtful, intelligent choices on their ballots. The fans obviously dont follow the game with as much enthusiasm as they are given credit for. Fans are voting for people like Randy Hundley and Mike Shannon who have been injured most of the season. Admittedly there is going to be some prejudicial voting in the league cities, but how in the name of sanity can Hundley poll 70,000 votes when he isnt even on the Cubs active roster. Shannon polled 86,000 votes despite having played in only 24 games through the end of June. If he was a .400 hitter there might be some justification but his average as of June 28 was .179. THE FANS HAVE proven that they are just not well enough informed to go about picking an All-Stteam. Too many excellent youngsters are being overlooked by fans who are voting for more established players with excellent reputations and relatively poor productions. should be picked by their production this year, not on the basis of die good year they had last year or the year before. ar ar Ever Hear The Name Conigliaro? I remember it well! It was April of 1964. A senior in high school, I spent the day with one eye on the teacher and the other eye peeled to the window. The Sox opened their regular home kid who lived about season that afternoon and a 40 miles away was supposed to get the start in rightfield. As 1:30 p.m. rolled around the students candidly made their exits as not to be late for the National Anthem. why I Funny how time can make things a little hazy cant even rememlier who Boston was playing that afternoon. I do remember though that the wind was gusting and this was to be Bostons second game of the year. They were to officially open the season in Yankee series. Rain washed out the secStadium with a two-gam- e ond contest The kid was in right in the first game and went I for 3 helping his teammates beat perennial All-St- softball dub. Front (L to K): Doug These are the members of the Met Team's league-leadinTHE UNDEFEATED Moe, Chuck Freiss, Cary Xordin, Pat Ward, Jon Bourne, Mike Simoneau and Bill Thomas. Bear: Mike Ixitti, Dennis Malone, Mike Little, Ron Steiglitz, Roger Pestorious, Del Lombard and Jeff Nelson. At the end of the first half of the season the Amazin Mets had a 12-- 0 record. g ar All-Sta- rs Contributing to the problem is the computerized bal- Met Team Remains Undefeated Despite Scares By Civs, HIIC lot. Some of the names on the ballot are absolutely ridiculous. The managers and player representatives were asked to make nominations for the list at the beginning of spring The first half of the intra-softball mural season ended few A chastized were because training. strongly they simply as the Mets evening the Tuesday and refused let their to for teams vote ignored request i " nominations. They knew then, and we all should know now, that they were right. It was a silly proposition from the word go and this fact is bom out now when you can lode down the ballot and find the names of Ken Harrelson, Coco Laboy, Fred Patek and Reggie Jackson. To top it all off, you look again and the names Rico Carty, Bill Grabar-kewit- z, A1 K aline and Ray Fosse are missing. gue crown. They must play the IF MR. KUHN wishes to continue the practice of havCivilians twice more and it is rs fans select the the he is find have to to ing going doubtful the Civilians will- win a new nomination procedure. Better yet, return the selecmore than one of those games tion privilege (and that is just what it is) to the players which means that the Mets themselves. I hope the big wheels of baseball learned somewould have to lose three other thing from this years blooper and are thankful it didnt games to somebody. turn out any worse. THE METS have had two ALL-STAHank Aaron and John close calls recently as they had JOTTINGS Bench were the only two National Leaguers to 'poll over . to go nine innings to heat the Civilians back on June 18, and 1,000,000 votes which puts the young catcher in some then rallied for eight runs in fast is Bench his behind Aaron and company. pretty just the top of the seventh to beat fellow muscleman, Tony Berez, in homers and RBIs and back HHC No. 2 about even with Bench in hitting. survived a The Civilians of the most frustrated men in baseball must be Two bad start in which they lost their Lee May and Orlando Cepeda. Neither had a prayer of first two games and have now making the All-Stteam, although both are having good won years. They just cant get die impressive statistics of an grasp second ; Allen or a McCovey. Both bat fifth for their team, but and the Hospital, two of the early leaders have faded to the Cepeda is behind Aaron and Rico Carty and May hits behind Perez and Bench, and those two combinations dont point where they are outsiders at best. The MPs have been hurt : leave too base. men on many Denis Menke ly players going on leave and At shortstop, Houstons hard-hittin-g has the Hospital's pitching finished only fourth, but should be named ahead of both lieen unable to keep their op-Bud Harrelson and Maury Wills. He was less than 20,000 ponents from outscoring their votes out of second and is having a much better year than own strong hitters. either of the other two. He just doesnt have the reputathe games lack Reviewing tion or the team to draw a lot of votes. to June 23, the season has gone At third, Ron Santo finished second, mainly on the like this: JULY 7: Mets 11, Mets scored 5 runs in strength of the season he had last year and the fact that MPs 4 the fourth to break open a 3 write-i- n and could Grabarkewitz a was Billy nobody contest. A double hy Stieglitz is 100 Grabarkewitz name. over his spell hitting points and triples by Freiss and Ward higher than Santo and producing more runs for his team. the inning. Nelson highlighted He should be the number two choice. led the Met hitters with three WILLIE MAYS should not start, although he cersa fties and Stieglitz had two tainly deserves a spot on the team. He finished second to hits and a pair of walks. Karyns Aaron, ahead of at least ten players with better credenripped two hits to lead the MPs. tials including Carty, a .400 hitter through the middle of HHC No. 1 15, Officers 5 HHC scored four in the second June. Pete Rose, Bob Tolan, Roberto Clemente, Billy Wiland fifth innings and won it liams, Jim Hickman, Ken Henderson, Bobby Bonds, Clarence with two in the sixth. Doubles Gaston and Rusty Staub all have more impressive statistics. imby the Kelly and Wendell sparked most Hickmans and are' Williams Hendersons, the fifth inning team. make the is to Williams but likely only pressive, Since each team must have a representative, Staub Henry singled in tne winner with nobody out in the sixth, and Gaston should make the club, but finding an All-Stin Philadelphia could be a problem. Their best hitter, Don Money, has played only half the season and their best -- in a MPs had already the liut inning, had one in the third and HHC had the hopeless task of play- jng catchup. Downard scored four times, Robinson hsd three hits and Simmer rapped a triple and a double as they led the MPs to the win. Tonn was the only HIIC player to get two hits, Civilians 17, Officers 2 -Twenty walks and five hits, in- eluding a hoiner by Bardslev, made it easy for the Civilians as they scored eight in the sec-ond, six in the third and three jn the fourth. Thompson and Walter drove in the two Offi- six runs R 12-1- 0. tSL.SJV 4-- - - ar . 12, HHC ' Mets saved their unbeaten skein with an eight run rally in the seventh inning, Simmoneau sparked the rally with a pair of doubles and Little and Ward added base blows to the comeback. Edwards, on the hill for HHC, lost it after get ting one out and allowing one run. He gave up a walk, a tingle and two more walks to dig himself a hole just a little bigger than he could wiggle out of. Previously he had slick- ered his way out of a bases load- ed, none out situation by in- dudng two batters to pop up and getting the final out on a fly to center. Ward also had two hits for the Mets while Marsh lunged two triples for HHC and Edwards added a two nui hoiner. Tho- CIVILIANS 8, MPs 7 mas doubled in the tying run in the lxittoin of the seventh and then scored the winner on an Civilians rallied error as from deficits of 3--1 and 4 to JUNE. Ntv- - 2 10 '30 Mets 7-- pitcher, Joe Hoemer, suffered a mild heart attack while pitching not long ago. The Nationals will have three repeating starters: Aaron, Bench and Kessinger. The other 1969 starters were' Santo, Willie McCovey, Felix Mill an, Matty Alou and Cleon Jones. Bench (.667) and Mays (.343) are the NL teams hitters and Carty is the only leading all-ti- rookie All-Sta- All-St- ar r. IN THE AMERICAN League, Bill Freehan ran away with the catching job despite a miniscule average. Ray Fosse is having a fine year for a club that is going nowhere and should be the second choice. He has played well enough All-St- ar Vincent Jones Ford - Lincoln - Mercury Ford Trucks For a deal that will make you feel free to recommend me to your friends Bonneville Motors 278 North Main Home: 8821708 I gg inside-the-par- k. Os-th- 1 Handball Tourney 21-1- Schedule 1. Ma-soia- Office: 882-057- s, i 8-- " AH-St-ar ' ' , vote-gette- rs . - 8-- Boog Powell p j,ad die ),j(s as Edwards got home nui. ' " and Crook, Carillo and Bass noUhel two apiece. Tliev just twIi(i't get the gixxl glov'ework t0 slipport Edwards strong pitching, of singles. The Hospital 14, MPs 3 JUNE 29: Civilians 25, Hos- - Hospital pounded out 12 hits pital 13 -'- The Civilians un- - including homers hv Campi, Conigliaro. leashed an awesome attack Knipmever and Giles, to stop Numlier 23 stepped to the plate accompanying a good that garnered the victory on the MPs in six innings. Knip- of applause. He was a picture of determination. Guys round 16 hits in just four times at meyer and Taitnes added triples all New England saw this kid finally getting the around the plate. Thomas smashed a to the attack as thev got a run and chance and home three they had all dreamed of. The pitcher wound-u-p single straight jn the first inning and never runs, Kirk had a homer, a double trailed in the game. The MPs fired, as Tony C. planted his back foot, and three walks, Chadwick a It is a long drive to left, its going. . . going. . . two in the third on Kanoffs homer and Norton a triple and gt fifth on the in and one gone! Goudy shouted, trying to be heard over thunder- single double. Roxeboro and Furukawa a ous roars from Maine to Rhode Island. single hv Takeshita and that each had three hits for the was jt. They got only seven hits As a rookie in 1964, Tony hit 190 and 24 hut the game was aH nigjlt al,j fIHlr f them went Hospital, home runs. In four seasons he hit 104 home runs and nointo producing their three runs. had hit so many Mays nor Ruth nor Williams body JUNE 23: Mets 22, HIIC him in called 23. T. C., they at Boston, the handsome Three hits by Little No. 1 8 and chases girls, Bohome runs bachelor hits who came hack from a 44) deficit young and Nelson's home run featur8 and ed the Mets 13 hit attack as stons darling boy with a flair for the dramatic. to tie the game at the tieing run was on second On the night of August 23, 1967, the great expecthey walked away with the liase when the winners got the 13 in tations runs after began to fade. A fastball ripped in on Tonys face. scoring final out. The winner managed game allowBounie the illlling. shattering his left cheekbone. He missed the rest of the Series. At 23, doctors a HHC only MW. committed five 'L"n.c.,Nu Be emustedto the victory . The baseball as was finished a him he told player and should No. .1 turned four of them into Mets 0, a floppy after himself be to consider living. lucky and runs. Henry with a triple tjie Bjg ead and HHC I remember seeing Tony on the Merv Griffin Show a single and McKain with a double most 0f its ninJ 0n walks the and a single were only couple of times. There I was graduating from college waiterrors for lioth two to hits, ing helplessly on a call from the draftboard, and watchget players HHC No. 2 20, Hospital 7 the losers. ing a kid who once had all die potential in the world The third inning was the HOSPITAL 28, Officers 6 butcher attempts at a singing career. story of the game as HHC sent 16 f Then I was off to Basic Training. Once in a while and Campi cracked a grand slam men 0 lhe platc homer in the first inning, later them W)re(j jllt.iuding io lie- Id pick up a paper and see where Tony C. was going to added a triple and a double, fore the first out was made. malm a comeback as a pitcher or something, but deep down and the Officers were never in dwards wjth a hoiner and two I knew X rays didnt lie. Call it negative thoughts if you contention. Knipmever and Funi- sjngies anj Howe with a double will, but how many guys do you know thought positive the hall out kawa also kntx-keled the HHC anj tWQ in Basic. of the park for the Hospital wy,ieh also benefited from summer Uncle Sam sent me to Well the and jaimes got one the hard jg iwses on Qes was the Ft. Lewis as a following and that May I gpt to reporter, sports Leppert onjv t0ugh medic for Edwards way, comeback with Boston. I was a kid attempting a shot for smashed a three-ru- n u jie rappeJ a pajr 0f doubles meet ball the cm field the Officers' lone down players, with my the highnote. interviewing head growing in diameter all the time. Then I saw him. JUNE 24: Civilians 9, HHC The Civilians piled No. 2 8 Mike in hand, I went over. up five runs in the third and It is great to see you back Tony, I said. Continuthen hung on for the win as ing the interview I asked him about his future, his brother IIHC battled hack valiantlv. The Billy who was just 19 and batting .313, and then I inquirstrong Civilian sluggers touched ed about Ken Hawk Harrelson who was just traded to Edwards for just six hits, but Cleveland. eight walks and nine HHC ere rors gave them the game. Tony couldnt say enough about his brother Billy and bom was. their only two hit younger brother Richie who would be the best of them man with a pair of singles. HHC all, he claimed. Harrelson was Tonys buddy and he had mod man too. nothing but praise for the As to his own comeback he said, The doctors say the eye is okay and I feel great. Weve got a good ball club. On and on he went. I couldnt help but recall the it was like the TV confidence he had when speaking close-u1964 when he stepped into the p him of in camera hatters box and hit that home run. Well, it was bye Seattle and hello Dugway after that Boston's pitching faltered but Tony finished the season with 20 homers, 82 RBIs and a .255 batting average. Doctors called it a miracle. Two weeks ago Boston met Baltimore in NBCs Came of the Week. It was a slugfest, Baltimore winning 9-homer in the Tony had 3 for 4 including a two-ru- n eighth which put Boston up 6 at the time. He left after that home run because he was only on pass from Ft. Devens for the night and had to get back to his two weeks of sum- mer training with the National Guard. The following Saturday Boston was on the tube again. this time agaiast the Yankees. Tony went two for four ' ' and brother Billy hit a two-ru- n homer as Boston won 4--0. ' C. ; - I cant help but remember a comment Curt Goudy made during the game. Gowdy, now the outstanding sport sc aster in the country and doing everything from baseball to fishDetermined but ducking, he didn't frighten as he fought his wav back. ing in Wyoming, gave Conigs credentials for the 70 season thus far. Tony is batting .299 with 14 homers and 41 RBIs. That's not bad for a kid doctors didnt think would ever be able to see good enough to play ball again. Tony Conigliaro has come a long way from the Massachusetts sandlots. And before he hangs those spikes up for good, his name will be appearing on a lot of sport pages. (TCV) Mike Kalinnwxki sailed won lint then Masoians through Bn 1970 Dugway Hand- - age licgan to show and Kalin-lw- ll Championship undefeated to owski ran away with the last two annex this year's crown and earn games 21-- 5 and 21-the right to represent Dugway at Taking no credit away from the Sixth Army llandliall Cham- kaliuowskis excellent showing n pionship being held this week at throughou the tournament, the Presidio. played some fine handliall Tuesday has been moved up Due to the national telecast of Kalinowski breezed through in reaching the Raids. He might 13. day to Monday, July A1,.Slar the winners bracket of the douMljw Leaglie -5 (MOTOXy July 14. ble elimination tournament and rt ! n to Mike massacre proceeded gam in the finals. The first game linowski. The doublehcader scheduled bost the Met Team. was a tight emit 11 as Kalinowski 8. to start. ran his vote total over a million, the do to so, and won the first base job easily. only AL player back-u- p first baseman could be a problem the Choosing because none of the runners-ureally deserve status. The man who should get the job is Danny Cater, a .300 hitter all year and a real important cog in the Yankee attack. have been AT SECOND, the first two knocked out of the game by bad knees leaving Tommy Harper with the right to the starting position. However, Manager Earl Weaver picked his own Dave Johnson over Harper and Andrews who finished ahead of him in the voting. Putting Johnson on the team would have been perfectly okay, bit starting him ahead of Harper is unforgiveable. Hie outfield is really a joke. Tony Oliva, Willie Horton, and Roy White are all playing better ball than the three starters. Frank Robinson is acceptable as a starter, but Yastrzemski should lie a sub and I question Howard's presence at the ballpark. Howard has hit a bunch of homers, but Alex Johnson, Ceasar Tovar and Felipe Alou are pro-- ; dudng just as many runs. AL repeaters include Freehan, Powell, Robinson, Howard and the injured Carew. Freehan (.333) and Howard hitters and all of the (.333) are the teams leading starters have been there before. the Looking at the comparative starting line-upNLs better depth and the flock of superior NL pitchers Hodges has to choose from, I look for the Nationals to notch their eighth straight win and their 23rd of the series. (JMII) - Wendell, Henry and Hannah overcome the MPs. Thomas. had two hits for the winners Bardslev and Chadwick had two mu Dorenkamp allowed the Of- - hits apiece and Kirk had a triple and a sacrifice fly to lead the Civilians Kalonowski attack. and Kanoff paced the MP upset attempt, each having a pair All-Sta- ar ar Whitey Ford. Well, the Boston opener moved right along -- as that Well, the Boston opener moved right along as that strong wind blew in from the leftfield wall That was the only ingredient there was for the possibility of a pitchers duel at Fenway Park. It was the bottom of the second and two men were out for Boston. The announcer cried, And now batting for Boston playing rightfield, Tony Conigli-- . aro. I remember that vividly because it sounded like he had practiced the pronunciation all night. Curt Cowdy was the Boston announcer at the time, and he had his hands full with names like Yastrzemski, Petrocelli, and S.LC. 363-460- 8 2 Ma-soia- Cl ange |