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Show Page HERALD, Provo, Utah 10--THE Sunday, April 2?, 1972 aseball Still Remains nly National Pastime "And," said Tom Seaver, "not all of the players make NEA Sporti Editor over $100,000 a year. Many make $20,000 and less. And NEW Y ORK ( NEA ) The they have great expenses-li- ke baseball players' strike, in living in three different the end. will have little efplaces; a spring training fect on the fan. home, their club's hometown As the clouds gather home." and their around the double play at "Yet the players' strike second base and the heat of had more to do with ethics the pennant race warms in reason than just money and August, the fan will forget matters. We feel we've been the passions of the spring taken advantage of by the strike. The fan has a memWhen Charley Fin-le- y owners. ory fuse as short as his Vida Blue that tell can temper. "What have you he has to sign for what Fin-leall is done for us lately?" wants him to, or not play he asks, all he's ever asked. at all, well, that's grossly unWe hear of $100,000 money! "The only thing that will a fair. year salaries, $200,000 be relevant to the fan." said "It's true," said Seaver, salaries. And we feel year star Mets' Tom Seaver, the "that we get up in the mornan encroaching eyenicism: pitcher and player repreAre these romantic heroes ing and look forward to gosentative, "is how his team Hessians? to work. A steelworker ing is doing and how the indiNo, they are simple men, probably doesn't. But our vidual players are doing." trained in the ways of a capjob is not all that easy. FolFor now, though, there italistic society. The system low me around in the hot seems to be a souring. The tells us that we can earn as days of August." Seaver mirrors something fan stares into his glass of much as our expertness and Ed Walsh, a long-agbeer and bemoans his knick-ere- d as much as the laws of supgreat heroes. He still cannot ply and demand dictate. Yet pitcher, said. Walsh once accept the realism that they under the reserve clause (in worked in coal fields. "This are actually mortal men whMi an owner determines being regarded as a star who play this kid's game, a player's baseball life) and pitcher is a harder job than and play it for profit. They under the monopolistic being a coal miner," he said. There have been a handful play it, not only because power (that maker contract love it, "haggling" a like that fan-t- hey and but also to provide a securnothing more), the profesity for their families and a sional baseball player lives livelihood today. outside the system. The point is not th."t playYet heroes are expected to ers often make a great deal be cut from a wholly different cloth. They may look like of money in comparison to the rest of us, but they must your local butcher but that act and perform like demi- they aren't accorded all they might earn in a free market. gods. "Baseball heroes," wrote For example, major league LOGAN, Utah (UPI) -- Utah Tristram Coffin, in "The Old clubs' gate receipts have inState University football players Ball Game," "strutting and creased to 80 times what 1883 opened spring practice Saturday but the in were artificial an they fretting upon candidate Tony average players' salary has with stage, find their personalities being crammed into increased only seven times Adams leading a pack of 23 basic stereotypes that the in the same period (accordreturning lettermen. world seems never to have ing to Dr. Harold Seymour, Head coach Chuck Mills says been without." So W i 1 1 i e author of "Baseball: The he expecis between 80 and Mays and Tom Seaver are Golden Age"). 85 candidates to report for opening practice. He added a total of 40 squad members will join the returning lettermen. Adams, who started every game for USU since arriving as a sophomore quarterback in The 1972 winner of the Western votes from the WHL players. 1970, will direct the Aggie footFour players dominated the ball team for his third season. Hockey League Rookie Award is contem porary America's summertime version of Hercules and Achilles. Of course, our psyche permits us not to look upon these mortal men as mercenaries. We give thought to the fact that a man from Hackensack and another from Caracas play for the Chicago Cubs, and a man from Punxsutawney, Pa., and another from Muskegon are with Baltimore. And so we are shocked and benumbed by such mundane matters as money for them. And besides, what By IRA BERKOW little y :vi ' )J ! strikes and threatened strikes in baseball history,' dating all the way back to. 1890. The owners even ther. termed the players of and "anarchists." The faithful fans were appalled at the players' rapacity. (Even so divine a hero as Walter Johnson was, during a contract dispute, vilified in this headline: "Almighty Dollar Johnson's km J X v , LV' -- Y gU.,-.- . x iljljll - )n upvV J 4 ' Ideal.") However, the fans still came. It is not so easy to live a humdrum life and have no hero to cheer, no bum to boo. TOM SEAVER demonstrates one reason why he says that "playing baseball isn't as easy as it looks . n o ritual Utah State Opens Grid Practice U fjwj gssb yki d BE" "ALL-WEATH-ER fn(oK U to Roadrunner Hockey Star Grabs WHL Rookie Award Bob WhlUock of the Phoenix voting. Following Whitlock (300 Roadnnnera. WhlUock is the votes) were: Bob Johnson, second Phoenix player to Denver (215 votes) ; Barry Long, receive the Rookie Award. Walt Portland (179 votes) and Orest McRechnle, now with the Kindrachuk, San Diego (145 California Golden Seals of the votes). NHL, also a centerman, won the Seventeen players from each award in 1968. The native of Charlottetown, Prince team voted on an Edward Island, has had basis, with the ballots counting 5 ex- points for first, 3 points for previous profession second and 1 point for third. perience with National Hockey League development clubs at Cleveland of the AHL and Iowa of the CHL, and his record shows one game with Minnesota of the NHL. To be eligible for the WHL Rookie Rule, a player must not have played more than 30 games of professional hockey outside of a development club in the CHL The AMES, Iowa (UPI) or AHL, and shall not have atIowa State coaching staff says tained his 24th birthday prior to nine more prep stars have December 31, 1972. signed national letters of intent with the Cyclones. 1971-72 During the season, Whitlock played 65 games for the Heading the list is Bobby Roadrunners, scoring 33 goals, quarter46 assists for 79 points. He also Martin, a led the Phoenix Roadrunners in back from Ogden, Utah. Coach first goals of game with 8, and Johnny Majors missed spring practice on Thursday to travel scored 4 goals. He to Utah to sign Martin, who is ranked fifth in the balloting for considered a "blue chip" prosthe center spot on the for the Cycloes. Team, receiving a total of 22 pect Ogden Gridder Signs Iowa State Letter - Size 6.50 All-St- lit Clean sidewall design, radial darts on shoulder nylon cord construction Triple-tempere- Standouts Phil Shelley at free saiety, unepackers Kent Baer and Rod Rosa, and Alan at left end lead the d OTHER SIZES LOW PRICED TOO! Aggies' defense. Mills said the annual spring scrimmages are set for May 6 at Box Elder High School at 2 p.m., and the following weekend the Aggies complete spring practice with a scrimmage at Romney Stadium in Logan. USU opens its 1972 season Sept. 9 at New Mexico State University In one of its earliest u first games. 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