| Show - -- - - ' ' - i ' ' - — ' - 70 P 1 5aIt galit Ztibline r:!tbt arts r :CI t IN I) 2 1989 Sattirtia‘--Septem- ber I Page -in Baseball World St:'::: Commissioner Remembered As the Game's Biggest Fan By Bun Walker AP 'Baseball Vriter To those he praised and those he penalized A Bartlett Giamatti was the same person: a good honest man Baseball and its legions of fans around the nation and around the orld Friday mourned Giamatti wmho m died earlier in the day at his home in Edgartown Mass from a massive heart attack The man who served as baseball's commissioner for only five months was 51 Giamatti was lauded Friday as a man of "articulate intellect" whose passionate love of baseball fueled a drive to maintain the game's integrity his brief term as during commissioner "In spite of their dispute Pete had great personal respect for the cornmissioner" said Robert Pitcairn Jr one of Pete Rose's lawyers "Pete is deeply saddened by the news" And so everyone else who knew Giamatti Bart was a close friend of mine for many many years" President Bush sle I made a real contribution to the game standing for the - highest possible cal standardsFlags were flown at half-staf- ethi- at all f parks Friday and a moment of silence was observed before each of Friday night's games Giamatti who became the seventh baseball commissioner on April 1 had been a widely respected and in fluential figure in academia since 1977 when at age 39 he became the Youngest president in the history of 'Yale University But in the last six months of his life the frumpy goateed man in a blue blazer and a button-dowstriped shirt became a towering figure in American sport Only nine days ago Giamatti expelled Rose the manager of the Cincinnati Reds and one of the most accomplished players in base ball history from the game: Giamatti an overweight cigarette smoker who seldom exercized because of a congenital bone disease — hal retreated to the resort island after an unharmonious spring and summer in which he was engulfed in the biggest baseball brouhaha since the 1919 Black Sox scandal At 3 rm Friday Edgartown police responding to a call found Giamatti unconscious I to was taken to Martha's Vineyard losPal by 315 pm After doctors at the small hospital attempted to resus major-leagu- e n Utes Underdogs Open '89 Season g k Dv r ife' 4 :: :' M ': '" A4: "4i0-- !JAeNn41 f cp - 414 :ii4::: ':::7 ' iii47::: pr A t i:4::if:— s : - 1 tioarterback mid 110 under the Ind Fresno — if he - Colunm 1 k ' I'' N i : ' '' ''''OP541 4tst t : i''' 4 - 9 Ross Intemalional PPM° Baseball commissioner A Bartlett Giamatti makes a point during press conference last week to announce banish '' : 'tAlw:'--04110'''- r( 6'4 444'W4f:1:'4::- ::: '1le A i:::::: 7 :1:wis '' !i 4x- g3 ' '' '2 '11 :4i :' ti I ' ' 4 4 ? 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Reilly pondering their rugged early-seaso- Lex ' - need only look at the schedules We know that Nebraska can win the national championship that BYU can go undefeated that almost all Big West teams will be losers again that Utah would do well just to earn another winning season and that Hawaii has the sweetest schedule of all time with 10 home games In the Utes case all you have to know is that they play six of their first eight games on the road That doesn't mean they'll necessarily be after eight games it just IIINUIS they almost certainly won't be bet ter than by then You don't build bowl teams or even winning teams with schedules like this "Objectively speaking this is a very very difficult schedule and one that we would hope to avoid in the future" said Chris Hill who found this '89 schedule waiting for him when he took over as Utah's athletic director two autumns ago The only alteration Hill could make in the schedule was one he didn't want to make — moving the Air Force game from Nov 4 to Nov 25 to bail out the Falcons who had a conflict with their Army game Maybe his WAC brethren will be so accommodating to him some day But they can't do anything for him this year The Utes' schedule is straightforward They have five road games 2-- 4-- :7 L ti :i'':'''i t 0 :'7:::::' - ''41'7:: 4 44 ' ''""''' Adlt!!:''i :!k70-'-47- 'ilp v"":A" Inilii Schedules Often Determine Destiny - ?24ts 1 2 — Otti:::4:::::::':::?:-- ft7 '''ef f i ' -- ''''''''' h 11 1 '41''''''s-'r- "''::::-:i'f- :i ::' Commissioner Giamatti has produced its most incredible chapter yet The two of them the games hit leader and the sport's bearded eruspokesman will be linked now forever The commissioner who stood up in his finest hour and acted forcefully and courageously to banish this base ball icon for gambling is himself struck down at age 51 only days after he made his most memorable decision Did the strain and pain associated with this long investiga I ion build p and eventually create the stress that led to his heart attack': Certainly some will speculate that it See D-- Column By Steve Bisheff Orange County Register We will come to remember it as baseball's saddest summer The summer one of the games legendary figures was banned for life And one of its most respected leaders was taken from life The startling news that Commissioner A Bartlett Giamatti died of a heart attack on Friday only deepened the bleak shadows cast upon the game through the heart of this dark 1989 season hang a wreath on scoreboards everywhere It is time to mourn for our national pastime The amazing saga of Pete Rose and 1:ti— : itzt yi - zfttr Summer of Sachiess Hits Darkest Hour - 4:rriti ::: 4444iit:: f :f ment of Pete Rose Giamatti a former president of Yale died Friday of a heart attack after only 5 months in office "- 'v'r1i:::-:nr2:s:'- :4:14 - ohc":: 6 - - 4 '"''t lei! 0 r lot ': :': 14' a e s': : - 0 1)-- -- - 20-1- 7 el‘ s :: -P x season-- ( " 444:rf : openers Mitchell - - 1:::0:::4::!! 21-2- :la 4 0 ''''" 414 '3:?::T 4:' - I"' ekka' iris 17-1- 4 cd ' - : y :: For this one against the predicted Big West champs arid the defending California Bowl kings the Utes must contend not only with hot (90 degrees) humid weather but also the ominous prospect of tho Bulldogs 24home mark over the past four seasons Not since 1966 hen Coach Bill Meeks Utes won at Oregon has a Utah team opened victoriously away from Rice Stadium Fassel heading into his fifth year and beneficiary of the services of one of the nation's premier quarterbacks Scott Mitchell refused to get into any prediction contests over his Western Athletic Conference lean) and the Bulldogs from the supposedly inferior Big West "Our kids are ready to play Matter of fact our biggest problem is keep Ing them from being sky-higThey're a proud bunch They tt got a stroak and ihey're winning looking for five- said Kissel One Ute the Bulldogs will surely hone in on is l itchell the tiles' 6- - N ' yA OF:7' games rs- 'A'' :4'44 ' Valley folks as the Joaquin -- oti(kiwsker ''''''''' :" 7t$N - Atai -- 5:: 'i::" Doghouse: Utah has won three of its four in the Jim Fassel coaching regime The Utes squeaked past Boise in 1985: lost in a big upState in set against San Diego State 37-3in 1986: edged New Mexico 24-2a 87 and blew out Idaho State ear ago But the Utes were at home in those 1 - 6 :'': kx Is!'- 'CI k ilirs::!:1':: 11 touchdown under- third-yea- '' rpo- k- - -- (t':::: 1::: P'::::::': :'5:'' here Saturday (8 pm MDT) where 235-poun- tk ::rir s!114:4 '' :) '4 'rA :' oi' '': - i ' r ifV14): -k- - y the Utes are Not-- A' I ' - tz - 1 '4 It'4k ' TD:1Q ::: ::: dog in their 1989 inaugural against Fresno State University in Bulldog Stadium known better known by San lour-gam- '7 ''' ' ' ' :s1'''' l)i: y 'kJ e :c::::': ::'"H:':: :::': 41-1- '' : 2 eath 3 1 kkl- - ' - r- t'Y''''''::-:::::- Executive Sports Editor FRESNO Calif — Its been 23 ears since the University of Utah won a football opener on the road The oddsmakers figure that dubious lay pk - : ' tA- - - 4 D-- 2 'if t2i4o ''" r 1 9 By Dick Rosetta hn 4 237-200- - 154-da- '' satci ' 1 In 'Doghouse' dr ei ::: ct V Call rr Ai141 - i4 - citate Giamatti he was pronounced dead at 4:32 pm His wife Toni Smith Giamatti and his son Paul were with him Giamatti's ousting of Rose friends said in interviews Friday had come with sorrow in his heart because Giamatti loved Rose as a baseball player But as Giamatti said he had no choice Rose the commissioner had concluded had bet on baseball games and in so doing had violated the integrity — the soul — of the game "I don't think any of us knew the toll the whole Rose business took on him" said John Farrar Giamatti's neighbor in Edgartown Tributes poured in as word of Giamatti's death spread "He saw the connections in everything" Roger Angell the baseball writer for the New Yorker and a friend of Giamatti's said Friday "He saw the connections between games and battles between baseball and books In so short a time he had a lasting invaluable effect on the game Ile was baseball's biggest fan Ille will be irreplaceable" tenure was the Giamatti's shortest of any commissioner eclipsing the three years and three months of William Eckert from 1965-196Giamatti was the first commissioner to die in office since Kenesaw See Column 3 '71' n - :t--- Call Local 2372025 eady to Travel a Difficult Road JI c 40--- 4"? Sports Information by Gianiatti' 5 '::::-1'--iect :i: 1 For Recorded Scores 4 1 Section evtra n it So as the 1989 season begins today (with apologies to early risers Notre Dame and Virginia) we already know how it might end Fe See D-- 3 Column 1 National League 5 Atlanta Chicago 1 Houston 6 St Louis 3 Los Angeles 2 Montreal 0 San Francisco 7 New York Cincinnati 11 Pittsburgh 5 TV (5) Sports — i 0:39 am am (113S1 10:30 1 Tennis US Open — College Football ----- Florida State at Southern Mississippi it am — Auto Racing NAS- aspic CAR Grand National 500 121 pm — Baseball Mets at Giants CESPNID 1:30 pm — College Football Maryland at North Carolina State C4D 2 pm — Golf Greater Milwaukee Open CEStitiD 1:30 pm — College Football LSO at Texas A&M VIGN WIBSD 5 pm — Baseball Cubs at Braves US4i 5:30 pm — Tennis US Open (Si 7 pm — College Football BYU at New Mexico - CV- 8 pm — Fresno Stale College Football I Utah at I Dewier Takes Place Among BYU Starting QBs Tonight By Ray Herbal TribuRe Sports Writer ALBUQUERQUE — Gifford Nielsen the man who began the succession of great Brigham Young University quarterbacks believes sophomore Ty Detmer has an excellent chance to add his name to the list Detmer who won the starting job from senior Sean Covey will be at the controls when the Cougars open their season against the New Mexico Lobos here Saturday night Kickoff is set for 7:05 pm "He Detmerl has great field sense" said Nielsen who will join the Channel 5 broadcast team on the live telecast Nielsen is moonlighting on KSL on those Saturdays that the station carries BYU games He continues to live and work as a television personality in Houston 'Trim ‘k hat I've seen Ty has a great competitive edge" continued Nielsen who played a -Ile reads starring role at BY11 from 1975-7Idefensesl very well That was evident in last year's Hawaii game when he eluded a tackler and hit Chuck Cutler with a big pass "The only suggestion I've given Detmer is to hit the weights He needs to lift and get stronger not only to be able to throw farther but to take care of any possible shoulder injury coordi"When I played at BYU nator Doug Scovil didn't believe in lifting and that hurt me when I went into the pros" Detmer who earned the starting job on the strength of a good showing in last year's Freedom Bowl victory over Colorado and a successful spring practice will face a young and rela: tively new Lobo defensive unit Five starters return from the defense that BYU hit for 65 points a year ago in Provo The other six starters are either junior college transfers or sophomores Jon Thompson a defensive back is regarded as the best of the JC transfers 202 pounds and can fly Ile's BYU's new offensive line has the burden of Detmer from bodily protecting the harm The main pass rush is expected to come can 250i who is an for John Bell t6-170-poun- d didate after a season in 1988 The Lobo defense gave up an average of 562 8 yards and 432 points per game in 1968 'lead Coach Mike Sheppard obviously needed a change and he went out and got himself a new defensive coordinator Denny Moller from Idaho State The last time BYU lost here in 1980 the Lobos had just brought in a new defensive coordinator —Joe Lee Dunn who later became UNM's head coach and then followed the late Joe Morrison to South Carolina After Morrison's death Dunn was let go and he is currently a graduate assistant at UN LV A crowd of in the neighborhood of 22000 is expected in University Stadium The arena seats 30000 and the Lobos have never played before a sellout-Thlargest crowd to attend a collegiate game here was 29761 on Oct 9 1982 with BYU visiting that night New Mexico played before 18061 fans in its to Fresno opener last year After losing State the Lobos never had more than 11000- plus for a home game -We're excited ibatit playing BYU iii the k 25-2- 1 68-2- -' opener said Sheppard But its like lye been saying for two year s sAe just vant to get into the fourth quarter with a chance to win" at half New Mexico trailed the Cougars 35-0 time last year "We are not talking much about last year's game" Sheppard snapped "We've put it out of our mind As for this year BYLl's front seven is as good as any in the country They are a very physical group that can play the pass as well as the run" Both teams come in with all their top guns healthy "One of the reasons why we feel we have a chance is because were healthy" said Sheppard We don't have much depth and injuries would really hurt us Also we hope BYU will mistakes" make some "BYLIs passing game usually takes at least a game or two to get going" noted Nielsen "I never cared to open a season with a league game" Coach LaVell Edwards has often said in season openers The Cougars are only during this decade I first-gam- e - 4: ':!"1 1g 5-- 4 1 '1 I 000MP04E141?O04!ttrOnoRlit 'ffo 0 01 rAMAgE&111i 0'4herfkt001444 IP 1" 4000 04Cdi—grg-4- 1 - V- 4:i- $1 |
