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Show The Salt Lake Tribune 4D, Sunday, Septeuber 30, 1984 Comeback of Year? Its AL West Champion Royals - The one key element that sustained us through this last 12 months was the character of our organization," he said. We knew what this organization had done and what it had achieved. We did not believe everything was lost. We believed we could work ourselves out of it, and that is what sustained everybody." The Royals remarkable success story did, however, get off to a shaky KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) If they gave a Comeback Franchise of the Year" award in major league baseball, the Kansas City Royals would win it hands down. Last season, the Royals, who had dominated the AL West from 1978 to 1980, finished 20 games behind the sion-winning Chicago White Sox. Then came the drug scandal which ended with four members of the 1983 team going to prison on federal cocaine charges. The 1984 season, many thought, was lost for sure. On July 18, the Royals were sixth in the American League West standings and eight games out of first place. On Friday, they were champions. The Royals clinched the AL West title Friday night by beating the OakMinland A's after second-plac- e nesota Twins blew a 10-- 0 lead and lost to Cleveland The Royals will be home on Tuesday night to face the AL East champion Detroit Tigers in the opener of the leagues championship series. General Manager John Schuerholz said it wasn't luck that pulled the Royals through the season. divi- start. third baseman George cenBrett was disabled and ter fielder Willie Wilson was suspended by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn until mid-Mabecause of his involvement with the drug scandal. Two rookie starting pitchers, Mark Gubicza and Bret Saberhagei, had trouble establishing themselves and Larry Gura pitched himself out of the starting rotation. The shortstop position was a disaster, with a succession of players going down with injuries. The low point came on July 18 when the Royals dropped into sixth place, 11 games belcv .500. But since July 19, the Royals were 44 and 25. No team not tbe Chicago Cubs, San did Diego Padres or Detroit Tigers it better. All-St- All-St- 40-5- y 6-- 5 11-1- best-of-fi- Associoted Press taserphoto Royal celebration! Big wave of Kansas City players poured out of the dugout in merriment after Royals clinched title in A American League West against Okaland. Slew O Gold Captures Marlboro Cup Win By Gary Kale United Press International Slew O Gold, sent ;iytew 5YORK odds by a Belmont Park Jwpwd of 26,766, moved a step closer ti a 1 million bonus Saturday by 1 storing a 1 s length victory in the Mpt,000 added Marlboro Cup. the ominous threat of lost f;jespite sffcd due to a frog (callous) on a lfroflt foot, Slew O Gold had no the 1 V mile test as he -beafc.Carr de Naskra for his fourth straight victory and third stakes win tif the year. - Canadian Factor, going off at 40-J'IJnished third, another two lengths chase earlier this month in the Woodson of ward Stakes. The Seattle Slew can clinch the $1 million by winning the Oct. 20 Jockey Club . - Pt 4-- 'baclu : Gold Cup. half-lengt- three-quarte- - rs Hail Bold King, winner by 9 lengths in the Pegasus Handicap at the Meadowlands earlier this month and considered a top contender Sat Slew O Gold, who missed winning this New York triple last year when Ije lost by a neck in the Marlboro, won the opening leg of the 1 million r- . Slew O Gold paid 63.60, $3.20 and $3 in continuing his unbeaten season. He has won lifetime starts and holds career winnings of $1.5 million. Carr de Naskra returned $5.40 and $4.60 to place and Canadian Factor was $8.80 for show. Shifty Sheik, who put on a great challenge in losing to Slew O Gold by h in the Woodward, never a matched that performance in the Marlboro. He was third at but faded to seventh. urday, finished fourth, almost seven lengths behind the winner. Slew O Gold, clocked in 2.02 5 on a fast track, was a delight in the hands of jockey Angel Cordero, Jr. He is a good horse, said Cordero. I just love him! He can do anything and gets better and better each time. Slew was a little trouble on the back stretch and I was being careful. He ran okay with new shoes but he is not quite used to them. Slew O Gold wore a modified bar to prevent possible further injury to the foot that had given him trouble since he began running on a frozen surface at Belmont earlier this year. John Hertler, Slews trainer, said the victory was the best birthday present he's ever received. My 34th victory was this week, he said. But I aged a lot more. I 2-- trained him with the new shoes and he responded so nicely and he is comfortable with them. We felt confident he is a super horse. Slew O Gold is the son of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and was named 1983 Horse of the Year. 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AAWh-A- (Mk Ml IS Alt. j H0SEPARK The Royals did it mostly with a who bunch of blue-coll- ar non-sta- regularly supplied one key hit and one key play after another. Dan Quisenberry, with 44 saves as of Saturday, continued to be the best relief pitcher in the league and F rank White, hitting .271 with 56 RBI. showed he was still one of the game's premier second basemen. Bud Black, became the ace of the staff and one of the league's top starting pitchers, and Wilson did his share with a .301 batting average. Darryl Motley developed into a steady, productive outfielder. Steve Balboni, obtained in a trade with the New York Yankees, supplied 27 home d runs and a defensive touch at first base. Most of all, it was the efforts of reserves which made Manager Dick g Howser's gambits work. This team is definitely greater than the sum of its parts, said Schuerholz, who admits nobody believed the Royals would challenge for the pennant this year. "They may say now they did, but I cant believe it, he said. "We said all winter we felt we could be a competitive club even in a year of transition. But we also said we didn't know if we could be contenders. 17-1- light-fingere- late-inmn- light-foote- |