Show 1 ogjn Utah Sunday Novrmbfr iv?9 The Herald Journal — If fi Earl Weaver is baseball's top skipper ‘ By Murray Oldorman BALTIMORE Only one manager in all of baseball history (NEA) — In not quite a doren teaiont of managing the Baltimore Orioles — his only stewardship in the major leagues with an ownership that doesn't stockpile millionaire talent — Earl Weaver has won one World Series (our American League pennants and six East division titles Only twice in 114 seasons have his teams finished lower than second place Four times they have won more than 100 games in a season Despite the loss by the Orioles in the seven-gam- e 1071 World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates Weaver's performance this past season earned him a number of manager of the year awards Once again fired the fabled Joe McCarthy of the old New York Yankees had a higher winning percentage than Karl's 507! But these are only dry facts about the most successful skipper operating in baseball today The personality is much more engaging — a feisty crafty spirited crusty bright gnome of a man who brings basrball back to where it ought to be: a game of players and strategic moves blended in the wonderful symmetry of the sport Above all Earl Weaver is a realist Although he has been the sole manager of the Orioles since after the break in 1968 — the longest unbroken (enure in the major leagues today — he is perfectly aware that his like that at a football coach is to gel All-St- ar only-futur- e without its tensions He calls his ace reliever Don Stanhouse "Full Park" That's how many So he has his own little creados for the Weaver's relations with umpires have been tumultuous particularly with big Ron Luciano A dispute with that arbiter in August led to a three-dasuspension for Weaver lie is the only manager to be tossed out of a World Series game in the last 44 years He is caustic to men in blur This summer in Oakland after he was tossed out of a game instead of going to the Baltimore dressing room Weaver hid in the men’s room behind the dugout Alerted by Jim Marshall the opposing manager the three umpires stormed the room and found Earl hiding behind a door "Can't a guy” complained Karl "get sick over the way you guys'vr been railing them tonight?" (Newspaper Enterprise Assn) rigarrltes Weaver preassures of herding 2S disparate personalities into a viable smooth team that has won more than lOoo games under his leadership "Rather than think about getting fired" hr says "you think of winning the game you're goes through when Stanhouse is on the mound pulling the Orioles out of a jam During such crucial moments Weaver also ducks out of (he dugout and into a runway though he rlaims he still peers around the corner to follow rvery pitch Brooks Robinson who was a great Orioles third baseman for two decades says the Orioles think of Weaver as a funny guy "1 mean" explains Brooks "if it's the bottom of the ninth and the bases are loaded the count 2 on the batter the score lied and your managrr is in the runway hiding behind his hands and saying 1 can't stand to look at this' that's playing" He has a disdain fur (he mystique of the cerrbrations that a manager is supposed to practice while juggling his players to outwit the skipper in the other dugout "All I do" he says “is manage my own players The other guy makes whatever moves he wants to first All that stuff is over-rate- d anyhow" Weaver's decisiveness however is not y 3-- funny" Relievers are overlooked says Rangers’ Kern - NEW YORK (UPI) Listen to Jim Kern! The Texas Rangers bullpen ace will tell you he had a better earned run average than American League Cy Young Award winner Mike Flanagan of the Baltimore Orioles and deserves some major recognition for his relief pitching Kern finished fourth in the CY Young voting behind Flanagan and two New York Yankees Tommy John and Ron Guidry "I think if you go on pure stats my stats are better than Flanagan's" the 5 r claims “But Flanagan pitched 245 innings to my 143 Then again he was in about 35 ball games and I pitched 71 He had 23 wins and I had 13 wins and 29 saves so he figured in 23 Baltimore victories and I contributed to 42 “I think as time goes on there'll be more recognition and more of a feedback of a relief pitcher's stats in the overall complexity of Ditching" Kern needing 162 innings to qualify for the 6-- 205-pou- right-hande- through several years at Cleveland in which limit as he posted a 157 ERA that would have been good enough for all the marbles Actually Ron Guidry of the New York Yankees won the ERA crown with a 278 Flanagan was fourth at 308 “I'm not totally upset that I didn't win the Cy Kern “When Young" says the straight-talkinyou've gotten to the point where people recognize you as one of the best relief pitchers in baseball then even if you don't win the award people know how good you are" Before his acquisition by Texas Kem went through several years at Cleveland in which his role as a pitcher wasn't totally defined He did some relieving and some starting Which did he prefer? “Starting is nice because you pitch 35 days a year That's it And you’ve got five days rest and you’re always rested when you go out there I had 71 appearances this year and probably 20 at them I was well rested and probably the other 51 I was dragging here g hurting there “But it makes you a better pitcher coming in relief because you know you cant blow the ball by them and you got to use a little bit of finesse It's almost always a pressurized situation almost always you're going into a borderline game with the decision on the line" His strength in coming out of the bullpen and winning or saving games for Texas earned Kern major league baseball’s 1979 Relief Man Award in the American League That award is sponsored by Rolaids Kern's future appears assured with Texas contract with the He signed a five-yeRangers last July With the long-terpact and of six minor the long remembering years league ball Kern is not about to tell his bosses: "Either start me or trade me” He's satisfied just to be in the major leagues and if necessary he'd be the team's batting practice pitcher to stay with a team in the big time This attitude stems from the years he rode buses for many miles as a minor leaguer He likes the new rushion on his future Kern earned a reputation as a flake and doesn't resent it one bit “I enjoy life and I'm kind of a free spirit” he explains with a smile “I'm not going to live a structured life I like to take life more as it comes rather than having to be at an office at 9 am and eat supper at 7 pm “1 like to float with life and take what it brings You have to have kind of a blending of personalities there I enjoy kidding with the ' fans and giving them a hard time just as they give me a hard time I got to be known in Texas this past summer as the amazing Emu the world’s largest bird Arrk! “I found it's much easier to present a flaky front and do as you wish underneath rather than present a straight intellectual front Then when you do something flaky they go Oh my gosh look at this one’ Now they come to expect it and you do something weird and they go ar m sitting in the bullpen between Jim Kern and Sparky Lyle is like sitting between Steve Martin and Abraham Lincoln Kern is philosophical about baseball He says some players take it seriously and other enjoy whatever they can ga out of the game “I have a simple philosophy on life I've spent six years in the Marine Corps Reserve I’ve been married for nine and I've played this game for 12 My idea is that I'm going to enjoy life You only go around once and when I hit 60 I don't want to have to look back and say ‘I blew it’ I’m going to enjoy life not at somebody else's expense but I'm going to enjoy it as it rolls along" Asked to rate the top three or four pitchers in baseball today besides himself naturally Kern mentions Rick Gossage of the New York Yankees Bruce Suter of the Chicago Cuba “and I’d have to put in Mike Marshall of the Minnesota Twins because of his durability When a man can go out and pitch 90 games something's got to be said for him non-flyin- g ‘Yeah that's him'" Texas catcher Johnny Ellis once said that To Doug Buffone it’s a year - round job By Randy Minkoff - CHICAGO (UPI) For Chicago Bears' veteran linebacker Doug Buffone in his 15th NFL season professional football has always been a year-'roun- d job Buffone 35 says he has noticed some tendency among younger players to have interests other than the “game” He doesn’t criticize it He has been active in the restaurant operating business himself and publishes a weekly Bears newspaper in Chicago doesn’t like to see But the 2 outside interests become more important than the game “I was talking recently to Jackie Smith (the veteran former St Louis tight end) and he said when you start off football is up here 6-- and outside interests are down here" says Buffone the hand symbolizing holding football up and the other down “As the years go on Smith said the things tend to level off When the outside interests take over it’s time to retire" Buffone a native of Pennsylvania and a University of Louisville graduate has been quizzed for each of the last four years cm when he would finally call it quits He says his answer must be based on his desire to make d the NFL a profession “You can't play it any other way Football is and has been a job for me Yes I've had other Interests but football is always year-aroun- first” says Buffone “When it doesn’t become that any longer it will be time to quit I’ve been saying for the past three or four years that this would be my last year but I’ll have to wait until the end of the season to see what happens” Players who fail to make this type of commitment usually wind up out of football Buffone says he still approaches each game as if he were a starter “First of all you never know when you are going to go in” Buffone says “I've always prepared for a game as if I was a starter I'm also in it to help the younger guys and when the time comes I'll be ready to play” Buffone is not criticizing his lack of playing time this season He says it is not his “If you plan to play in this league now you must do it and work at it just as hard during the offseason as you do during the regular season It requires total commitment If you don't have it it’s going to catch up with you sooner or later It happens all the time” Only six NFL linebackers Wayne Walker Ray Nit chke Matt Hazdtine Nick Buoniconti Dave Edwards and Chuck Howley — have played in more professional football games than Buffone! For most of the 1979 season Buffone has been relegated to a reserve role But he says Beck is big Rangers find By Michael Shalin - NEW YORK (UPI) Dave Maloney says he’s a bit shaken after losing three close teammates but the New York Ranger captain admits his club added a valuable commodity in Barry Beck The Rangers swung their biggest deal since acquiring Phil Esposito from Boston four years ago when they obtained Beck a talented defenseman from the Colorado Rockies Friday in exchange for defensemen Mike McEwen and Dean Turner left wing Pat Hickey and right wing Lucien DeBloii “It’s a little hard to look at the overall picture right now because we were all pretty close" Maloney said by phone from Denver Friday nighL “I had never been with a team that’s made a big trade like this It’s hard to believe It’s nice to have Beck but it’s too bad we had to give up those three players “He’s (Beck) a darn good hockey player and I’m sure he'll help us I'm sure he's gonna come to play He's a fine fine hockey player but we gave up an awful lot" The Rangers had expressed interest in Beck last year almut to the extent of having tampering charges filed against them by Colorado general to have manager Ray Miron When Beck continued contractual problems in Denver this year — be wanted to renegotiate — the Rangers were there again and the talks that led to the deal began last month Beck a tfoot--3 former second overall draft pick Is considered a “cornerstone” player He has scored 38 goals in his first two seasons played in the Challenge Cup Serin against the Russians last year and is also the punishing defenseman the Rangers fed they need to have in order to win the Stanley Cup TOUR BOOT OF a do you The NEW EXPANDED ARENA GYM hat own H Wo orvico It Vow forgot ill Wo to no or drain Nothing Allow A AtlowAi to t choMofrom-ono'- right for yowl “379” 5“ B T0URSIU Many modolt AN liwtoMoHoa prteoo pit aw-HlYCOlUeflN- VowrCwMgon Mono mao whi CmS VaBty flaw If fwh CULUGAN WATER CONDITIONING 595 West 5th Nsrlh 752-245- 4 SooooaworcoS U Keep Logan A Great Place To Live In Vote For The Future Vote For Action VOTE NEWTOH FOR CITY COUNCIL 218-pou- ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE CONDITION OWN IT RENTAL You Know What The Incumbents Haven't Done You Know That Controversy Is Not Productive Paid For STEVE ROPER Sorry puck- - ail i Eagles edge Stars snvicf place to be determining when he should be playing “If my heart is right I can still play a few downs” Buffone adds Buffone who once played in a club record 142 consecutive games says he Is healthy “In fact I've not frit this good in the put couple of years Of course I'm not playing a whole heck of a lot right now” — AUTOMATIC SOFTWATU if a punch of mup THE WATER ee mike! watch the water up on the -- anpJ creep e 1 By Pat Newton BY r SAUNDERS & OVERGARD THE Tire Wiu RAISE THE LEVEL OF THIS COVE PY 7 TWENTY FEET SHORELINE1 -- ROCKS ! rr- IM tfOlNOTOTRAP' THAT FORCE ANP USE IT TO&HERETB need to gain or lose weight? the facilities and equipment Eucrmri! to help you achieve your goals and our staff will help you work out a special program suited to your needs SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -- Len Frig scored a slap-shgoal in overtine Friday night to push the Salt Lake Golden Eagles to a win over the Oklahoma City Sian in Central Hockey League action Salt Lake scored the first goal of the game on Dick Lamby’s shot in the first period The Eagles took a 24) lead when Tony Currie hit a rebound shot st 1:30 of the second period ot 4-- 1 The Stars had tied up the contest by the end at the period on goals by Mike Eaves and Rob Flock Cnrrie hit a backhander at 5:39 of the third period to give Salt Lake a narrow lead but Oklahoma rebounded back on a goal byJon 3-- 2 Fonlasat7:45 CAPTAIN EASY CROOKS PERHAPS UNPER 2B CIRCUMSTANCE I— ONE CAN RISK ITI MEOR COME IM NOT GOING AT I ALL t- - frf r & LAWRENCE COMB WIZ ME’ MV CAR PARKED OV TSIPE1 WE SHALL BE LEAVING PARIS AT ONCE TRES FRIENP EITHER MV ONARAZZAIRAOVO JOURNEY 1 WAIT! ofl FIRST OF THE MONTH SPECIAL Reg $15 Month WITH THIS AD YOU RECEIVE A $5 DISCOUNT GENERAL CONDITIONING OLYMPIC LIFTING WEIGHT LOSS BODYBUILDING Get in shape for skiing or hunting Included on our staff is Steve Duroe a USU Varsity Wrestler Steve took 2nd in PCAA wrestling and 3rd over oil in the Mr Northern Utah Body Building competition this past summer Come in and see our new facilities and gel in shape No oligoliont and no contract necessory BY DAVE ALLEY OOP 1 WU-- WtT VWHN Wl 41 VI UVM I FVM IS HIS IM UllNiKV wn l! ) VTI SM I ILF tK’Mt KABKiT v CSUU’ V V I I 11 If SiT Al VM tw MVN 'Not-- t OVIK LV-M- pit-- m ’MILT ! 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