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Show Friday, November 12, 1999, THE DAILY HERALD, 1H i - , Provo, Utah (www.heraldextra.comJ, Page fiii ... Red Sox skipper named AL Manager of the Year - NEW YORK (AP) Jimy. despite a $25.2 million payroll, Williams is a lot better at man24th among the 30 major aging than he is at talking league teams. He got five firsts, about what he does. 19 seconds and three thirds for "I just try to listen to our 85 points, kids, not talk at them or to Joe Torre of the World Series them," he said Thursday after champion Yankees, last year's winning the American League winner, was third with 21 Manager of the Year award for points, followed by Johnny leading the Boston Red Sox into Oates of the Texas "Rangers the playoffs. with 18 and Mike Hargrove, "It's a conversation. fired by the Cleveland Indians I let my eyes evaluate what I after losing to Boston in the see." playoffs, with 13. Hargrove will Despite the loss of Mo manage Baltimore next season. Boston had been expected to Vaughn, Williams led Boston to the AL berth. For struggle after Vaughn left as a that, he received 20 of 28 free agent and signed with the votes and five seconds for Anaheim Angels. 115 points from the Baseball "Certainly Mo was an inteWriters' Association of America. gral part of this ballclub in the "As far as I'm concerned, this past years, but wasn't with our is a team award," Williams team," Williams said. "He was said. "It's pretty special." with another team, and you Oakland's Art Howe was sechave to move on. We weren't ond for keeping the Athletics in trying to replace Mo. Maybe contention ' until September some other players could step : two-wa- up and do a little more here and a little more there. Basically, that's what happened. A lot of different people stepped up." Boston, 22 games behind the New York Yankees when it won in 1998, finished the AL four only games back this year, wild-car- d to 94-6improving from 92-7The Red Sox pressed New York in September, sweeping a three-gam- e series at Yankee 0 y best-of-- Just klckln back and watching these kids Yankees next season. "We open up against Seattle that's what we're geared for," he said. "I guess I'm too simple." It: Boston manager Jimy Williams was named Tampa Bay Devil Rays that will include scouting and evaluating young talent. "I've come to the fork in the road of making the decision of not to be a player. It was a long, painstaking decision. I talked to a lot of people past players, present players, family members and close friends," Boggs said during a news conference at Tropicana Field. "It wasn't an easy, decision because an athlete can always look in the mirror and say OK, I can still play. Deep down inside, probably I thought I still could. But why not go out on top. I've always ' said: 'I'll never embarrass myself in this game.' " Boggs, who played 18 seasons in the majors, become the 23rd player to reach 3,000 hits on Aug. 7. He is the only player to do it with a home run. .'.;''. :'.,7. V' A month after reaching the AL batplateau, the season-endinhad ting champion to surgery repair torn cartilage in his right knee. He ,'hit ,301, the 15th time he fin five-tim- e g All-Sta- r, ubfaltH t-i- the AL Manager of the Year on Thursday. ? 2 win," he said. look Williams wouldn't ahead to trying to catch the He said his style probably has changed throughout the years. "I probably see life a lot dif- ferently than when I was with Toronto," he said, "maybe nots,o excitable, from a standpoint .of having to say something all tpk time." Jays deal Hentgen to Cards DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) When he walked off the mound to a standing ovation in Toronto's home finale last season, Pat Hentgen had a feeling it could be one of his last appearances in a Blue Jays uniform. He was right. Hentgen, the 1996 AL Cy Young Award winner, managers' meetings. "Whethjf it was business or personality or overall performance, the Jas thought it was the right mov9n The trade might have been a combination of the three. While the Cardinals get the pitching help they needed, the Blue Jay get rid of Hentgen's $6 million and reliever Paul salary for next season. "These things are very diffiSpoljaric were traded to the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday for cult," Toronto general manager Lance Painter, catchGord Ash said. "He's been' in er Alberto Castillo and minor the organization for a numfeejr of years. I was there with hmi league pitcher Matt DeWitt. "Part of me is sad, but part of when he started. We talked 1bV me is excited," Hentgen said in quite a while yesterday. He a conference call after the trade understands that business is was finalized at the general business." hits. e - CHARLES KRLPA.1 he Associated Press AL Championship Series. "The thing I felt good about was being down 0-- and coming ished at .300 or better and wound up with 3,010 career A f first-roun- d 5 Boggs calls it quits; next up front office ed a front office job with the i 2-- 0 first-plac- e baseball's 3,000-hi- t club, retired Thursday and accept- 'lii Stadium and closing within three games during the final two weeks. After the votes were cast, the Red Sox overcame a deficit to beat the Cleveland Indians in the series, then lost to the Yankees in the wild-car- d Wade TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Boggs, the newest member of '" ii p Boggs also was the only player this century with seven straight 200-hi- t seasons, won two gold gloves, set an AL rookie record with a .349 average in 1982 and won a World Series with the New York Yankees in d left-hand- 1996. The Devil Rays faced a deadline Wednesday to exer-- . cise the option on a contract Boggs signed two years ago when he returned to the area where he grew up to help Tampa Bay launch an expansion franchise. Although his duties as special assistant to general manager Chuck Lamar aren't well defined, Boggs said he is excited about the prospect of having input in the development of what he thinks can be a championship organization. Eventually he said he would consider opportunities in television. "Last season was an incredible high point in a long journey. I will always treasure it. Not once during the year did I consider it the final lap of an amazing ride," he said. "Few players have the lux- - m i f f STEVE NESIUSThe Associated Press Hit no more: Wade Boggs, shown getting his 3,000th career hit, announced his retirement Thursday. ury of culminating .their wife, Debbie. 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