| Show 2D The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday August 14 1990 Trappers Lash 25-Whipping On Pioneers Welch Climbed Out of a Bottle for Career Year A's Hurler Nearing 20 Wins gessed rapidly in him Read his biography It's urn sobering He was already in trouble in high school getting drunk before he was scheduled to play a basketball game While touring Japan with a college team he got angry over being relieved got drunk threw beer bottles off a hotel roof walked along a narrow roof ledge kicked in a door — and remembered nothing the next day Southern Cal coach Rod told him he acted like an alcoholic — the first time he heard himself so described — but he wasn't nearly ready to deal with it Inevitably it got worse He nearly drove a golf cart off a bridge over a ravine in spring training as a Dodger rookie in 1978 He flipped a Bronco on a California beach nearly killing himself and two companions He was getting a reputation as a drinker but he was producing on the field so no one said much Inevitably it got worse In 79 he began sneaking beers in the weight room during games Stories began to spread The scout who signed him wrote an anguished letter His girl friend and brother expressed concern and so finally did the Dodgers To all he was defensive and hostile still in full denial Why was everyone picking on him? Inevitably it got worse He couldn't get anyone out He couldn't stop drinking Finally in September the nadir Drunk he staggered onto the field at Candlestick Park tried to catch a fly during Giants batting practice fell flat on his face got up lurched into the cage and challenged Terry Whitfield to a fight before being hauled away by Dodger teammate Rick Sutcliffe By Bob Rubin Knight-Ridd- Newspapers er MIAMI — At 33 Bob Welch is having a career year At 23 Bob Welch nearly drank himself out of baseball Welch leads the majors with a 19-- 4 record and is a leading candidate for the American League Cy Young Award His record with the Oakland s a glitseasons is 1 A's in tering stat that tends to get lost in the glare of publicity for the Bash Brothers Rickey Stew Eck etc Also lost is Welch's continuing recovery from alcoholism It got a splash back in '82 when his book "Five O'Clock Comes Early" was published but it's old news by now Not to him though It never will be bid to him Every four days Welch faces the challenge of getting out league hitters Every day he faces the challenge of staying sober He can afford to lose a game He can't afford to take a drink His recovery is and always will be "continuing" ' Cocaine abuse gets the headlines both Is and out of sports but our legal drug alcohol causes infinitely more misery suffering and death Hard drinking always has been a baseball tradition and an unspoken problem of unknown dimensions despite the efforts of recovering alcoholics like Don Newcombe Ryne Duren and Sam McDowell to call attention to it There are players who need help and don't or won't recognize it For ever' Dennis Martinez Dennis Eckers-le- y and Bob Welch who deals successfully with alcoholism many more g team-recorall-tim- De-dea- 31-2- 30-fo- major-- don't Bob Welch is lucky He was forced to confront his disease early It pro- - Special to The Tribune — Things got bad and things got worse Monday night for the Gate City Pioneers who wilted outburst by under a record-settinthe Salt Lake Trappers and lost 25-- 4 d The Trappers smashed a e 27 hits two short of the Pioneer League record The run total also was a season high for the Trappers Salt Lake moved into a first-plac- e tie with Butte because the Copper Kings were losing their third straight to the Idaho Falls Braves while the Trappers were enjoying their easy win at Haliwell Park while The Trappers are now 2 Idaho the Copper Kings are 30-2- 1 Falls is 2V6 games behind in the league's Southern Division The Trappers play at Idaho Falls Tuesday and Wednesday and then return to home-stan- d e Salt Lake to begin a Thursday night at Derks Field A grand slam home run by Salt Lake first baseman Rob Bargas ignited the Trappers in the third inning when they jumped out front 0 Any hopes of a Pioneers' comeback were dashed in the fifth inning when the Trappers sent 16 batters to the plate and scored 12 runs homer his Tom Duffin's two-ru- n fourth of the year started Salt Lake's n ninth inning Rod Nettnin Salt Lake allowed one run over five innings to improve his record to POCATELLO all-st- 53-2- two-plu- 4 five-gam- C v v at 1 v'Wl i OK? ':l vsv SSX'V-- : 5-- six-ru- left-hand- —Associated Oakland Athletics hurler Bob Welch overcame bcut with alcohol to become one of l i i nisiasiexeicibemu-uecepuo- Once enrolled 1 u the game's toughest to hit Welch can join n club on his next appearance the — j his feelings instead of surpressing them in an alcoholic haze He learned Welch learned of 5-- 2 20-wi- the nature of his disease and what it would take to arrest it He learned to : : — j lauuiiauzuig tunning BluJ ue"y"'g ami ujauujig uuicia lie laccu paimui Three months later the Dodgers re-asked Welch to oea to an Arizona — not to quit hab center He agreed "control" 'it TVinr man drinking but to r : Press Photo of the need to work at staying sober one day at a time He's still working at it He's one game away from winning 20 for the first time but every day he stays sober is a victory Taipei Ousts US At World Baseball EDMONTON Alberta (AP) — Taiwan which lost 16-- 5 to the United States in the preliminary round dumped the Americans from serious medal contention Monday with a 10-7 Lawyer Says Majors Made Deal With Spira cent in last week's Sports Illustrated Baseball investigator John M Dowd said assistant US attorney Gregory W Kehoe had asked that baseball's investigation be postponed a charge Kehoe denies Vincent was quoted as saying: "The request was preposterous The government should look into how it was initiated and why" Meanwhile The New York Times reported in Tuesday's editions that lawyers for Steinbrenner prepared a news release last week accusing Vincent of damaging Steinbrenner's reputation and business interests by misrepresenting their agreement The lawyers however did not release the statement prepared by the Howard Rubenstein agency A copy of the news release was obtained by The Times A source told The Times Steinbrenner is concerned about the public perception of the commissioner's disc- NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for George Steinbrenner accused baseball commissioner Fay Vincent on Monday of making a deal with gambler Howard Spira for evidence against the New York Yankees bwner 1 Robert E Banker Steinbrenner's lawyer in Tampa Fla said that Vin-ceis trying to discredit the eight-cou- federal indictment against Spira who is accused of threatening to harm and attempting to extort the owner Vincent and Spira denied the accusations ' "They made a deal with Spira that in return for information damaging George they would assist Spira in some way with regards to the criminal prosecution" Banker said in a telephone interview "Or they simply don't want the Spira case tried because they don't want the public to hear what Spira has to say or what George has to say I can't think of any action iplinary feared and repercussions would hinder his ability to get government contracts for his shipbuilding company The release said " the commis- - other reason" Banker said he decided to speak out after reading a quote from Vin US Hoop Squad Holds Off Argentina Campana led Argentina with 29 points Smith who had 12 first-hal- f points broke a 2 tie with 8:50 left in the first half to ignite a 12-- 0 run that gave the US team the lead for good Mayberry and Anderson each canned three-poishots in the run Argentina scored five straight points but the US team came back with nine in a row to open its biggest first half lead In the second half the US team seemed in control leading 92-7- 4 with seven minutes to play But then Campana and Marcelo Milan-esi- o rallied Argentina each hitting two three-poin- t shots The second by Milanesio rallied Argentina to within 101-9- 6 with 1:21 left But then Anderson answered with his play to save the US victory In other quarterfinal matches Yugoslavia routed Brazil 105-8the Soviet Union trounced Greece 7 and Puerto Rico defeated Australia 89-7- BUENOS AIRES (UPI) — Kenny Anderson scored 32 points and the United States survived a dramatic rally by Argentina Monday night for a 104-10- 0 victory in the quarterfinals of the World Basketball Championships at half The US team led 56-4time and stretched that to a lead in the second half but couldn't put away Argentina With drums playing and fans singing from start to finish Argentina put on a desperate rally that got them within five points 101-9- 6 with 1:21 to play But then with 50 seconds to play Anderson drove from the left side with a layup was fouled and hit the layup to hold on to the victory The United States plays Australia and Argentina faces Puerto Rico when the round-robiquarterfinals continue Tuesday Alonzo Mourning scored 17 points Doug Smith had 16 and Lee Mayberry and Billy Owens each had 10 for the US team Hector 32-3- 2 nt baseball" Banker said baseball was engaging in "an attempted orchestration of the press saying there must be something wrong with the indictment and there must be an investigation" Spira referred comment to his lawyer David S Greenfield who denied the charges "This latest round of accusations is absurd" Greenfield said "There were no deals of any kind as suggested by this latest accusation" Dowd was on vacation and his office referred questions to the commissioner's office Vincent speaking in Atlanta before the Braves played Los Angeles also denied Banker's accusations "It is preposterous and innaccur-ate- " Vincent said "I think Mr Banker is feeling the heat" Banker said Dowd "implied" during a meeting in his Washington office that Steinbrenner should push to have the charges against Spira dropped No trial date has been scheduled and a pretrial conference is scheduled for next week "Dowd told me in April that Spira was guilty and would be convicted" Banker said "Despite that in April he said that neither he nor the commissioner wanted the Spira case tried — I think they said because it would not be in the best interests of baseball — and at least implied that if we would do something to make that case go away things would go better for George That it was to George's advantage and baseball's advantage to make that case go away And what he was proposing was a deferred prosecution" The commissioner ordered Steinbrenner to give up his position as the Yankees' general partner by Aug 20 Steinbrenner has proposed that his son Hank take control But The Times quoted Edward Rosenthal one of the Yankees limited partners as saying Hank Steinbrenner may not want the job "It's getting nastier and nastier" Rosenthal said "I don't think Hank wants to do it and that created monumental problems for George And the timetable with August 20 approaching is horrendous" Early Pension Plan Draws Fire Continued From D-- l the players' guaranteed 53 percent of gross revenues As a result the salary cap will be reduced from $13506000 per team to $11781000 or close to 13 per cent "The lower cap has already hurt some free agents" Jordan said "There are less restrictive ways to accomplish the same objective without lowering the salary cap and without hurting players" The salary cap is the maximum amount any team can spend on salaries in any given year Reducing the cap makes less money available for present salaries and also limits the movements of free agents who may not be courted by as many teams because teams will have less to spend on salaries 53-3- 7 n sioner's office reached an agreement with Mr Steinbrenner and then exhibited 'complete amnesia' as to their mutual understanding "Mr Steinbrenner had several clear and unmistakeable understandings with the commissioner and his representatives that prompted him to agree to his change in status in baseball But as soon as the ink was dry the commissioner put a spin on the agreement that has severely damaged Mr Steinbrenner's reputation and business by falsely suggesting that George was banned from life from 6 75-5- 9 Padres' Show Blasts Backstabbing Team SAN DIEGO (AP) — Eric Show says the San Diego Padres lied to him his pitching coach ignores him and everyone else is talking behind his back So he wants to be traded — or even released Show the Padres most successful pitcher with 98 career victories lashed nut at the club following San victory on Sunday over Diego's Houston at the Astrodome "I've got to go It's that simple" Show said The outburst came after manager Greg Riddoch passed over Show as a late replacement for starter Andy Benes who was excused from the start because of a family matter Riddoch chose instead Derek Lilliquist who pitched a four-hitte- r for his first career shutout "It's kind of like the last straw" Show said "You feel like you're not wanted You get no respect no nothing and that makes it hard to 9-- 0 perform" Show said that kind of treatment has been going on for a long time "There's been a lot of backstabbing talking behind ray back and I'm really tired of it all" he said "I know the grass isn't always greener on the other side I might have problems somewhere else but I'm willing to take my chances" The Padres were off Monday after road trip the most concluding a successful in club history Padres general 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