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Show r A x- ... K:- 'v. S ' ..-::"-.: , V . o" Mi -a - s s . i ' Dane Iorg fulfilled a fantasy with ninth inning winning hit. Dane and Gay Iorg pose with their family. The Iorg's are new residents of Pleasant Grove. Fantasy comes true for Bane Iorg the winter because he is sick of it after the long regular season and spring training. Dane is involved in some other businesses, too. His wife is expecting baby number six in March. "Only three more and we'll have a baseball team," Dane quips. Dane is undoubtedly the first Pleasant Grove resident to play in the World Series, let alone in two World Series, and to play on the winning teams. BYU recognized their former star baseball player by presenting Dane with the Golden Y blanket during halftime of the BYU-Wyoming game last Saturday. Pleasant Grove does not have a Golden Y blanket, or even a golden P.G. blanket to give Dane, but the community is glad to have him and his family here. Welcome! By MARCELLA WALKER It was kind of like the best daydream of all time coming true. Dane Iorg said that he was kind of frightened, knowing the World Series was on the line, when the coach sent him in as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the bases loaded, in the sixth game of the recent World Series. He knew he had to get a base hit. He was in a position every one would like to be in once in their life. It was a position he had dreamed of for a long time and had wondered how he'd react if the chance ever came. Dane knew it was a base hit when he hit it. He could feel it. It felt right. Well, it was right. The winning run scored and the series moved to a seventh and final game which the Kansas City Royals won by an 11-0 score. But the chance at that World Championship came because the Royals came from behind to win on Dane's hit in the sixth game which could have been the last of the series. Dane, now a resident of Pleasant Grove, thought that the critical game was the fifth one, the last one held in St. Louis. He knew if they could get back to Kansas City to play they had a good chance to win. He was right. They did. Dane had some confidence. He said he usually always does good in games that mean a lot. Obviously, the sixth game of the series, like the others, meant a lot. The Iorg family moved to Pleasant Grove last November around Thanksgiving time. Dane said that with a family of five children they wanted a place with some property so that the kids could have room to play, throw balls and not break windows, etc. In the spring, Dane heads off to spring training and his wife, Gay, stays here with the children until school is out. Then they spend the summer in Missouri with Dane and return in the fall when it is time for school to start. Dane is from a small town in California called Blue Lake. Gay is from a small town, too, and Pleasant Grove just filled the bill for them. Dane started playing baseball when he was only six years old. His dad was the coach and since the town was small kids of all ages were recruited to play. He played varsity baseball for BYU and finished there in 1971. He went to play for the Phillies and was a left fielder for them. Later they trained him as a first baseman so he could play both positions. In 1977 he was sold to the St. Louis Cardinals and he was with the Cards when they won the World Series in 1982. By that time Dane was a valued designated hitter and was the hero of that series with his bat, also. The problem this year was that the designated hitter rule is only used every other year in the World Series and this was the other year. The American League uses the DH but the National League does not. Dane came to the Kansas City Royals two years ago but he says this was his last year with the Royals. He is becoming a free agent. His brother, Garth, plays for the Toronto Blue Jays and he would kind of like to play there and San Diego has indicated they may be interested in having him play for them. His family was in a turmoil during the American League playoffs when Toronto and the Royals were battling bat-tling it out for the league championship cham-pionship and the right to play in the World Series. With Garth on the Toronto team and Dane with the Royals it was a tough choice of who to cheer for. Dane said his dad prepared the boys for this so it was a situation of his own making. Another brother was also a good ball player and played for BYU and was drafted but he gave it up and is involved in business at home. Dane works for Royal Pharmaceutical Phar-maceutical Co. in Salt Lake City doing public relations work during the off season. Right now they are marketing a new drug for preventing preven-ting and healing fever blisters and it has great potential, he noted. The 35-year-old athlete likes to golf when the weather is good. He likes to fish and go up in the mountains just to get away. He does not play baseball at all in |