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MacPhail turns Minnesota around and into a contender
c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK As a teen-ager he worked in the concession catacombs of Yankee Stadium, checking out the souvenir hawkers. Yearbooks, caps, T-shirts, dolls. In those years, Andy MacPhail earned about $25 a game. If the crowd was small and sales were slow, he would watch a few innings from the lower right-field stands. Last night he returned to Yankee Stadium with the Minnesota Twins, at age 34 the youngest executive vice president in the major leagues. “When I sat out there in right field,” he recalled with a smile, “my friends and I would hoot Charley Manuel, who was the Twins’ right fielder then. Now he’s our manager at Portland, the top manager in our farm system.” And now Andy MacPhail, the youngest son of Lee MacPhail and a grandson of Larry MacPhail, is baseball’s rookie executive of the year. Since taking command of the franchise that finished in sixth place in the American League West last year, he chose the manager, Tom Kelly, and negotiated the trades for Jeff Reardon, Joe Niekro, Dan Gladden and Dan Schatzeder that have helped lift the Twins into the fight for first place this season. Not since 1970 have the Twins won the divisional title. Not since 1965 have the Twins won the American League pennant. Not since 1924 has this franchise, then the Washington Senators, won the World Series. “But we have as good a shot as anybody to win our division this year,” the boyish-faced MacPhail was saying now. “We just have to stay away from the catastrophic injury to one of our top players.” Those top players include Kirby Puckett, Kent Hrbek, Gary Gaetti, Tom Brunansky, Frank Viola, Bert Blyleven and Reardon, the relief pitcher with 16 saves whom MacPhail obtained from the Montreal Expos in the off season. But long before MacPhail even worked in the front office for the Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs, he had been making mind trades all his life. “Growing up in my family,” he said, “I gleaned by osmosis the philosophy not to be afraid to take a chance.” He grew up, of course, in one of
'Senior citizens' still going at it
c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Tommy John thought the idea made sense. “Joe and I should pitch Wednesday,” he said, adding, “the old son of a gun. ” John and Joe Niekro are the scheduled starting pitchers for the game between the Yankees and the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night. But Wednesday is Senior Citizens’ day at the Stadium, and what would be more appropriate than having the 44-year-old John pitch against the 42-year-old Niekro? “That’s true,” Niekro said Monday, before the first game of the three-game series, when the question was posed to him. John and Niekro, of course, will
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baseball’s royal families. His father was president of the American League after having been the general manager of the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles (where he swung the trade for Frank Robinson that propelled the Orioles to their 1966 World Series victory). His grandfather is in the Hall of Fame for having put together the 1947 World Series champion Yankees and the 1941 National League champion Brooklyn Dodgers, as well as for having pioneered night baseball in Cincinnati in 1935. If Andy MacPhail were a yearling at the Keeneland Sales, his breeding would provoke a multi-million-dollar auction. “My father taught me more by example, by his perspective,” he said. “Win or lose, he stayed on an even keel. And he always tried to get me to develop other interests. He read a lot. My grandfather was out of baseball by the time I was growing up. He told me more stories about his horses and his exploits in the military than he did about baseball. But he was certainly never an advocate of standing idly by. Here’s a guy who tried to kidnap the Kaiser after World War I.” Larry MacPhail, an Army captain long before he was baseball’s Roaring Redhead, and a few other officers did not succeed in that daring escapade. But both his father and his grandfather warned him about the reality of life in baseball. “The travel, the hours you’re in the office all day, then you stay for the game at night,” he said. “But it’s what I always wanted to do.” After his graduation from Dickin-
not wait to pitch in front of the senior citizens, ottt they could join them in the stands and watch the game from there. The pitchers, who can oppose each other because the Yankees traded Niekro to the Twins a month ago, are among five starters in the American League who are in their 40s. Phil Niekro, 48, and Steve Carlton, 42, pitch for Cleveland and Don Sutton, 42, works for the California Angels. Tuesday night’s matchup marks the second time this season that two members of the over-40 group were scheduled to face each other. Joe’s brother, Phil, started against Sutton June 8, and Phil won, 2-0.
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son College in 1976, MacPhail joined the Cubs’ organization. “It was the ideal learning experience,” he said. “I was with their minor-league clubs in Bradenton, Fla., and Midland, Tex., before I worked at Wrigley Field, and then I went to the Astros as the assistant general manager when A 1 Rosen was there. A 1 was great to me. He gave me the opportunity to be in the environment when major-league deals were being discussed. “You’re not trying to outfox somebody. You’re just trying to help your own club, but that means knowing what another team needs and knowing what machinations the other team will go through.” When the Twins were searching for a new manager after last season, Jim Frey and Billy Martin were mentioned as candidates, but MacPhail held out for Kelly, whom he had named interim manager after the dismissal of Ray Miller. “I wanted Tom Kelly,” he said. “When he took over the team in September, you could see the difference he made. He knew our team’s personnel better than anybody else we considered. And he had been a successful manager in our farm system.” His Yankee upbringing also prompted MacPhail to hire Ralph Houk, the one-time Yankee manager, as a Twins vice president. “Ralph was with us in spring training,” he said. “And he’ll be doing some special scouting for us this season.” The Twins’ opportunity to win the AL West this year might depend on how they cope with the next three weeks of their schedule. Beginning last night, the Twins play 14 of their next 18 games against either the Yankees or the Toronto Blue Jays, the two best teams in the AL East. “After that stretch,” the executive vice president said, “we’ll see where we stand.” But no matter where the Twins finish, Andy MacPhail is standing tall.
John and Joe Niekro were members of the same starting rotation until the Yankees decided they needed a left-handed hitting catcher (Mark Salas) and could afford to trade a healthy-armed pitcher. The trade, June 6, left Niekro with mixed feelings even though he had been used sporadically earlier in the season. “It was more the shock of it,” he said Monday, “because I hadn’t heard any rumors. It’s not that I didn’t want to come and pitch for this ball club. But I called Phil and I called my family, and now I’m glad I came here. The reception I got from the fans and the players has been good.” It didn’t take Niekro long to learn that life with the Twins was much easier to live than life with the Yankees. “I love it,” he said. “It’s a good, relaxed atmosphere. Tom Kelly is a super manager. His attitude is great. We had a bad stretch on the last road trip and he wasn’t up in arms. He said we had a bad trip, let’s do better on the next one.” The Twins lost seven of eight games on that trip to Texas and Kansas City, and two of the losses were games Niekro started. He had won his first two starts. In between the first two and the next two was a fight between the Twins and the Milwaukee Brewers, in which Niekro suffered a separated right shoulder during a tussle with Rob Deer. When pitchers reach the age of Niekro and John, baseball people are quick to look for physical ailments and blame them on their age. John endured that last season when he had bursitis in his heel, and later when he slipped on a wet bullpen mound in Oakland, fell and tore a ligament in his left thumb. John, however, recovered from his ailments and has proved impressively this year that he is not too old to pitch. In making 15 starts, John has pitched six innings or more and allowed two runs or fewer in nine of them. He had his two worst games of the season against Boston but rebounded last Wednesday against Toronto by pitching seven shutout innings. Despite that performance, Niekro looked forward to pitching against him. “I’m finally going to pitch against a guy older than I am,” he said.
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Baseball Major League Baseball At A Glance By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W. L. Pet.. GB New York 51 32 .614 Toronto 46 35 . 568 4 Detroit 44 35 .557 5 Milwaukee 40 39 . 506 9 Boston 39 43 .476 11% Baltimore 32 50 .390 18% 'Cleveland 28 53 . 346 22 West Division W L. Pet. GB Minnesota 47 36 . 566 Kansas City 45 36 .556 1 Oakland 44 37 . 543 2 California 42 41 .506 5 Seattle 41 41 500 5% Texas 38 42 .475 7% Chicago 31 48 392 14 Monday’s Games Baltimore 4. Chicago 1 Cleveland 9, Kansas City 7 Toronto 6, Texas 4 Minnesota 2, New York 0 California 10, Boston 7, 12 innings Oakland 5, Detroit 3 Seattle 3, Milwaukee 2 Tuesday’s Games Minnesota (Niekro 5-5) at New York (John 7-3), (n) Chicago (Bannister 3-7) at Baltimore (Habyan 1-2), (n) Kansas City (Gubicza 7-8) at Cleveland (Schrom 4-7), (n) Texas (Loynd 1-4) at Toronto (Clancy 85), (n) Boston (Nipper 7-7) at California (Witt 9-5), (n) Detroit (Tanana 7-5) at Oakland (Andujar 3-1), (n) Milwaukee (Nieves 5-5) at Seattle (Guetterman 6-1), (n) Wednesday’s Games Minnesota at New York Detroit at Oakland Chicago at Baltimore, (n) Kansas City at Cleveland, (n) Texas at Toronto, (n) Boston at California, (n) Milwaukee at Seattle, (n) NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pet. GB St. Louis 49 29 .628 Montreal 42 38 .525 8 New York 42 38 .525 8 Chicago 43 39 . 524 8 Philadelphia 39 41 488 11 Pittsburgh 36 46 .439 15 West Division W L. Pet. GB Cincinnati 46 36 .561 Houston 43 38 . 531 2% San Francisco 42 40 .512 4 Atlanta 37 43 .463 8 Los Angeles 37 43 .463 8 San Diego 29 54 .349 17% Monday's Games Chicago 7, San Diego 0 San Francisco 7, Pittsburgh 5, Ist game San Francisco 7, Pittsburgh 4, 2nd game Philadelphia 9, Cincinnati 6 New York at Atlanta, ppd., rain Los Angeles at St. Louis, ppd., rain Houston 9, Montreal 3 Tuesday’s Games San Diego (Show 4-9) at Chicago (Maddux 5-7) New York (Leach 7-0 and Darling 2-6) at Atlanta (Mahler 5-8 and O’Neal 3 1), 2 Los Angeles (Leary 1-3 and Havens 04)) at St. Louis (Horton 3-0 and Tunnell 3-2), 2, (n) San Francisco (Downs 7-4) at Pittsburgh (Walk 2-1), (n) Philadelphia (Carman 4-6) at Cincinnati (Robinson 3-3), (n) Montreal (Sebra 4-9) at Houston (Knepper 3-8), (n) Wednesday's Games San Diego at Chicago Los Angeles at St. Louis, 2, (n) Philadelphia at Cincinnati, (n) San Francisco at Pittsburgh, (n) New York at Atlanta, (n) Montreal at Houston, (n) TODAY’S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING (242 at bats)—Boggs, Boston, .380; Puckett, Minnesota, 346; Trammell, Detroit, .341; Fernandez, Toronto, .319; Randolph, New York, 319. RUNS—Randolph, New York, 67; Boggs. Boston, 65; DWhite, California, 61; Downing, California, 61; GBell, Toronto, 58. RBl—Gßell, Toronto, 73; Joyner, California, 71; Winfield, New York, 63; DwE-vans, Boston, 62; McGwire, Oakland, 61. HlTS—Boggs, Boston, 116; Puckett, Minnesota, 112; Fernandez, Toronto, 102; Franco, Cleveland, 99; DWhite, California, 98; Fletcher, Texas, 98; Seitzer, Kansas City, 98. DOUBLES—TabIer, Cleveland, 23; Calderon, Chicago, 21; Boggs, Boston, 19; Downing, California, 19; DwEvans, Boston, 19. TRIPLES—PBradIey, Seattle, 9; Wilson, Kansas City, 7; 6 are tied with 5. HOME RUNS—McGwire, Oakland, 30; GBell, Toronto, 28; Hrbek, Minnesota, 23; LAParrish, Texas, 20; Barfield, Toronto, 19; Joyner, California, 19. STOLEN BASES—Reynolds, Seattle, 30; Wilson, Kansas City, 25; RHenderson, New York, 24; Redus, Chicago, 24; PBradley, Seattle, 23. PITCHING (6 decisions)—Guetterman, Seattle, 6-1, .857, 3.04; Saberhagen, Kansas City, 14-3, .824, 2.56; Morris, Detroit, 12-3, .800, 3.49; Schmidt, Baltimore, 8-2, .800, 3.10; Hudson, New York, 7-2, .778,3 62. STRIKEOUTS—Lngston, Seattle, 142; Higuera, Milwaukee, 121; Clemens, Boston, 111; Hurst, Boston, 106; MWitt, California, 103. SAVES—Plesac, Milwaukee, 17; Righetti, New York, 17; Reardon, Minnesota, 16; JHowell, Oakland, 15; Henke, Toronto, 14. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING (242 at bats)—Gwynn, San Diego, .372; Galarraga, Montreal, .338; Maldonado, San Francisco, .332; WClark, San Francisco, .318; Hatcher, Houston, .316. RUNS—EDavis, Cincinnati, 71; Coleman, St. Louis. 63; DMurphy, Atlanta, 63; JClark, St. Louis, 63; Gwynn, San Diego, 58. RBI —JClark, St. Louis, 77; Dawson, Chicago, 72; Wallach, Montreal, 66; EDavis, Cincinnati, 64; McGee, St. Louis, 58. HlTS—Gwynn, San Diego, 110; Hatcher, Houston, 101; Leonard, San Francisco, 97; Dawson, Chicago, 95; Pendleton, St. Louis. 93 DOUBLES —Galarraga, Montreal, 26; Wallach, Montreal, 25; Leonard, San Francisco, 23; GDavis, Houston, 22; Maldonado, San Francisco, 22. TRIPLES—Gwynn, San Diego, 7; MThompson, Philadelphia, 7; 6 are tied with 6. HOME RUNS—DMurphy, Atlanta, 24; EDavis, Cincinnati, 24; JClark, St. Louis, 24; Dawson, Chicago, 23; Strawberry, New York, 20; Virgil, Atlanta, 20. STOLEN BASES—Coleman, St. Louis, 52; EDavis, Cincinnati, 33; Hatcher, Houston, 33; Gwynn, San Diego, 26; Raines, Montreal, 23. PITCHING (6 decisions)—Leach, New York, 70, 1.000, 2.13; Magrane. St. Louis, 5-1, .833, 3.29; Meads, Houston, 5-1, .833, 5.93; Hoffman, Cincinnati, 7-2, .778, 3.23; Heaton. Montreal, 10-3, .769, 4.30. STRIKEOUTS—Scott, Houston, 141; Ryan, Houston. 134; Hershiser, Los Angeles, 104; Fernandez, New York. 97; Valenzuela, Los Angeles, 96 SAVES —Bedrosian, Philadelphia, 22; LeSmith, Chicago, 21; Franco, Cincinnati, 17; Worrell, St. Louis, 17; DSmith, Houston, 15. American Association Glance W. L Pet. GB Indianapolis (Exps) 48 33 .593 Nashville (Reds) 43 34 .558 3 Denver (Brewers) 43 37 .538 4 Louisville (Cards) 42 39 .519 6 Buffalo (Indians) 38 42 . 475 9% Okla. City (Rangrs) 36 43 .456 11 lowa (Cubs) 35 42 . 455 11 Omaha (Royals) 32 47 .405 15 Monday’s Games Oklahoma City 9, Omaha 3 lowa 14, Denver 1 Nashville at Indianapolis, ppd., rain Buffalo 14, Louisville 8 Tuesday’s Games Oklahoma City at lowa Omaha at Denver Nashville at Louisville Buffalo at Indianapolis
Wednesday's Games Oklahoma City at lowa Omaha at Denver Nashville at Louisville Buffalo at Indianapolis Transactions BASEBALL American League AL—Named Jim Fregosi, Chicago manager, and Tony La Russa, Oakland manager, coaches of the American League All-Star team. Named Barry Weinberg, Oakland, and Rick Griffin, Seattle, trainers BALTIMORE ORlOLES—Optioned Scott McGregor, pitcher, to Rochester of the International League. Recalled Mike Kinnunen, pitcher, from Rochester. CLEVELAND INDIANS—Sent Mike Armstrong, pitcher, outright to Buffalo of the American Association. Recalled Reggie Ritter, pitcher from Buffalo. NEW YORK YANKEES—Recalled Charles Hudson, pitcher, from Columbus of the International League. Optioned Rich Bordi, pitcher, to Columbus. OAKLAND ATHLETlCS—Activated Bill Caudill, pitcher, from Tacoma of the Pacific Coast League. National League NL —Named Roger Craig, San Francisco manager, and Hal Lanier, Houston manager, coaches of the National League All-Star team. Named Gene Gieselmann, St. Louis, and Mark Letendre, San Francisco, trainers. CHICAGO CUBS—Activated Scott Sanderson, pitcher, from the 15-day disabled list. Optioned Mark Leonette, pitcher, to lowa of the American Association. CINCINNATI REDS—Placed Ron Oester. second baseman, on the 15-day disabled list. Purchased the contract of Max Venable, outfielder, from Nashville of the American Association. Basketball United States Basketball League JERSEY JAMMERS—Signed Derrick Howell, forward, and Ken Bannister, forward-center, for remainder of season. RHODE ISLAND GULLS-Signed McKinley Singleton, forward, for remainder of season. FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHlNS—Released Scott Gieselman, tight end. MINNESOTA VIKINGS-Signed D.J. Dozier, running back, to a two-year contract plus an option year. Yankees making minority progress NEW YORK (AP) The chief accountant of the New York Yankees says the team is making progress in hiring minorities for front office jobs. Warren Atkinson, 30, also says he wasn’t offended when team owner George Steinbrenner called him a “young black boy” on national television. Atkinson said Steinbrenner frequently adopted a fatherly tone and often called younger men “son.” He added that the Yankees “seem to be making some effort to include minorities, including myself, in management decisions.” “I wouldn’t say I have been treated differently,” Atkinson said. “I have no gripes over race. I don’t think the Yankees are really race oriented.”
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