Show Best AvailaMeCopy TheHeraid Journal Logan UtahTuesday December 16 2003 ' Continued from A 1 ' voiry very r -- AS m g baseball skills in order to keep the pitching coordinator for ' going to let them put anything his big league dreams alive lit ' in play on me” Nyman said the bevil Rays a job he ' that summer league part of it was a V describes as Nhe biggest chal-ne- y Though long jour' the team he was playing with y to the major leagues stay t lenge of niy professional will tell you was from UCLA and didn’t career”'-- ' z ing there was the ‘red'' show up because'of their ' A me?!4 Nyman said pinning y getting there is the Now his biggest thrill challenge!- v involvement in the College about his jife during a recent will 1611 you that comes from hunting dder or - : V hardy "Anyone there is Staying interview “Baseball has been A World Series The team had there is fly fishing and then helping 'getting theieasy part very very good to me It gave they is It just two pitchers They both ' : It is hard there hard hard is young Staying pitching talent more to me than I ever gave to threw so often that it would " because they expect you to throw seven “Throwing the baseball isan-- ' you expect even make hanl-nose- d it” coach- unnatural-act- ” throw seven (innings) every Nyman r es like Earl Weaver or Tommy ' four The current pitching'director (innings) every four days “God may have and are playing explained days you ' for the TampaBay Devil Rays athletes who designed us to heave a nick to Lasordacry and you are playing agajnst against workl-clas- s has been with a handful of ‘There wafc ho one to pitch ' kill a rabbit but throwing a remember you” Nymiut said ' who worfcklass for me and this other major league organizations baseball is unnatural" except He the with White pitched ' and has literally traveled all mutt” Nyman said “And we ' remember He cart hardly stand to V Sox then was and traded the to you" over the world Baseball has :) found (hat jf you pitched me- ' expansion San Diego' Padres' watch the flailing motions of afforded him the chance to enough I could find the strike For a couple of years he toiled Randy Johnson or the herky- Oliva hit a bullet line drive up pitching for hi$ third dayJ: zone”play baseball help young : called the in minors jerky delivery of Kevin being in a row he went into theup ' right at a White Sox position ' A far distant cry from pitchers play baseball better Brown Instead he'prefers the ' periodically He with one out struck Then Nyman proceeds game player ’s and help him play around today carefully guarded “I was worthmore to them delivery of Greg batters to finish the ed to strike out the next two '' hunting deer and fishing durand throwing reg- - out two pitch-coun'Maddux not the ' playing (in majors) players inning struck out the side the linensHis career in baseball might ing the than playing from a tax stand- and then struck out a “I threw my slider and realr’ next inning down him " the Alter summer was over be likened to the pitching style Though tracking said point” Nyman ' lie-lethe first batter of the following ized They’can't hit it here the league in most — tenacious and might be akin to finding the A Nyman had become a victim of Maddux said! either’" wicked ciirveball on a Nyman inning Team he still has a love for of The end pitching categories craftyof his own success When he ' Three or four days later he “I went right into the dub- Cache Valley and believes that summer also brought him to “I was tenacious ” Nyman traced he had a guaran- ' lockbrf found the baseball ' his house and in ! changed signed the area could be the home to another realization 'r saio Ji s not that I was the er — the sign that he would be teed major league contract the dotted line” Nyman said other future major leaguers" “1 wanted to pitch and I was ' ' best ' 7 there were fourorfive ‘ him Bringing up to the majors in the His first pro season-starting the ballgame ! “I want kids here to know afraid to go back (to BYU)” I who played with here would mean the Padres would ' guys In his fust start he would Florida State League— he led that there is a light at the end Nyman said “I knew I would ' that were just as good - bul I have to the In on contract lock York with hrans pay New in strike‘ 'the league walks and of the tunnel” Nyman said' not pitch there” just stayed out there" 1972 the Padres tried to force Yankee great Mel Stott lemey-e- r ouis: He won more ballgames Even though a fourth-grad- e ' He also spends time touting Through baseball connec- him to a minor It sign looked like no league in 1966 than he did in the rest may have teacher tried to steer him away' tions he finagled a try-ofor the game of baseball — telling contract Instead he decided to ' contest --7 the Yankee great of his professional career The from becoming a big leaguer the San Francisco Giants and if they wantagixid ' parents baseball leave versus the White Sox rookie major league next year he pitched in Los Angeles Dodgc'rs in LA (he didn’t want Nyman to to put their child at ballplayer and head to the Mickey Owens However Nyman shut out the have unreal expectations) Neither one was in a position to bull The year after AA Inand then shortstop school Yankees and even gist a hit his Vbaseball 1968 he started the season Nyman would not abandon the them when they're 15 He also sign the Cache Valley farmhoy five For he worked years ' with Vancouver the AAA team P1 idea of making it to the big ‘However'he learned that the dreamsof a day when parents Then for a ' “I wasori deck and : teaching baseball the Sox for White show Persistence — one of ' Sox Midway base-- : White don’t attend little-leagmight give Chicago J fishhe of was a couple years thinking' about what I'would the hallmarks of the scrappy him a look The White Sox through the '68 season he was ballgames ' ' ing guide hunting guide and called up to the-bi: asked that he join a traveling leagues He do” Nyman said “I thought ' pitcher’s career “The first thing to dojs lei he left contractor Even take Til the first and though pitch left Vancoy ver headed for club team (a team of prospects kids have fun and play" Nyman was also a hot com--1 ' baseball for he a didn't then I will take two good cuts period v modity — a lefty with power Comiskey Park in Chicago is los- - T ' wantihopefuls and Nyman do so bitterly and swing hard and controlled in the park in the He arrived Before the dajys of Randy Johnmajor-leagu- e a offered tbbe soccer because first of ing to ng “I neverfelt that way twice’" son middle of the fifth inning He all parents don't know as pitchers were ' contract) in Burbank: : understood was' that Instead he always was told to s'uit got a basehit and V much aboutthefules-smostly finesse control artists report Immediately Nyman aiid they remembers pulling up at first part of the game” Nyman not fireballers Though Nyman to the bullpen He got to the don't get mdd at the coaches another pitcher who had also !: said base Mickey Mantle — by ' could “bring the heat” airly : Second everyone kicks the tried out hopped in a car-ari: bullpen and found the pitching ' ' ' then — had moved from the Eventually he went back to well he was at times wild : Vi staff the televised On to their drove Burbank watching ' plays” the baseball school and soon outfield to first: In his first season in the He said he goes and talks to game of the criisstown Chica- way they got lost They didn't found himself “I thought ‘Hey Mickey wanting to get Florida State League he led different groups of ballplayers find the ballpark until after the’ go Cubs who were in a rare back into professional base- - ' in Mantle’s np taller than me’ I - the division in both strikeouts' ' Cache Valley and tries to in the began Arriving game ’ ball It started as a pitching stood oil the first base just a and walks In one particular - second ipning they were just ' ’ them to followtlKir : encourage him coach than CaliSalinas in for little taller looked the ' dreams --tt kind of like he did game he walked 14 and struck : in time to see the White Sox ' ' down and thought ‘So you’re- ' fomia League Then he was a ' out 15 those who told him he a hit line with drive pitcher get minor-leagu- e Mickey Mantle’” Nyman said pitching coach However Nyman also could couldn't or wouldn’t the knee forcing him out off ‘ ' ' ' out he forthePittsburgh Pirates' Fearprobably had as much be unstoppable at times during “And don’t be afraid of fiul- of (he game The manager stepped on the mound Then as a pitching (bordinator an do to his professional and amateur to face the Minnesota TWinslooked around his dugouf and Nyman said "It is what for the Atlanta Braves the Nyman’s shutout baseball career V-’- ’ we do with failure:and if we asked the two newcomers v Qliva Tony ' “Little did they know that I Milwaukee Brewers and the : ' '' a v learhfrom it " “It was all sbsurreal : ' ' While trying out for (Ik "Hey do one of you guys have ' Was' afraid I so wasn’t San Diego Padres Now he is that Brigham Young University mean I was only three years to pitch'?”' " baseball team as a senior in “i said ‘I will’’’ Nyman off the chicken farin It could have been Babe Ruth “ Nyman high school he faced college a recalled - with virtually no warbling - said seniors In two innings he ' fanned five batters : “Most of the time I could throw swift but I couldn't throw a strike!' 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