THE BEST IN THE NATIONAL AND AMERICAN LEAGUES

DARRYL STRAWBERRY, METS: Controversy hurts some players, but the Mets’ right fielder seems to thrive on it. He hammered 39 homers and drove in 101 runs despite his annual slump after the All-Star Game. He gets lots of opportunities to drive in runs thanks to a prolific Mets’ attack. [Jack Clark], PADRES: After a one-year hiatus with the Yankees, he returns to the NL in San Diego. All the Padres want to do is keep him healthy. Two years ago, with the Cardinals, he established career highs with 35 homers and 106 RBI. [KIRBY PUCKETT], TWINS: Take away [Jose Canseco]‘s marvelous ’88 season and Puckett would be the talk of baseball. Has improved every year since becoming a starter in 1984. Still, it would be hard to improve on these numbers: .356, 24 HR, 121 RBI. [Mark McGwire], ATHLETICS: Some sophomore jinx. Only 32 homers and 99 RBI. Will be the focus of the A’s attack for perhaps a month, perhaps longer if Canseco hasn’t recovered from his wrist injury. [GEORGE BELL], BLUE JAYS: Tremendous falloff from his ’87 MVP season, but has been a happy player this spring. Finally realizes that as the leader of the Blue Jays, he must produce for them to win it all. ROBIN YOUNT, BREWERS: Was it really seven years ago that he was the MVP while playing shortstop for this club? Now, at 33, he’s still the hub of the offense while taking charge in center field. While his power can’t compare with that of some, he still produces: 91 RBI and a .306 average in 1988. Top rookies KEN GRIFFEY JR., MARINERS: A spectacular spring earned him not only a spot on the roster, but he’ll be batting No. 3 and patrolling center field. Set Mariners spring records for hits (32), RBI (20) and hitting streak (15). Only 19 years old. Father is longtime Reds standout Ken Griffey. GARY SHEFFIELD, BREWERS: Uncle is Mets right-hander [DWIGHT GOODEN]. The Brewers like him because of his unusual power for a shortstop. Got a long look in September when Dale Sveum broke his leg, and hit four homers and drove in 12 runs in just 80 at-bats. Is only 20 years old. GREGG OLSON, ORIOLES: The stopper job in the Baltimore bullpen is his with the departure of Tom Niedenfuer to Seattle. A big (6-4, 211) right-hander who was the club’s top pick in the June 1988 draft, he won his major-league debut in September. JIM ABBOTT, ANGELS: Was slated to pitch in the minors but won over Manager Doug Rader with his talent and poise from the beginning of camp. Shows remarkable ability to handle all the attention that has come his way. That, probably more than his actual pitching, helped him make the club. Will be the No. 5 starter.
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Full text: [Orange County Register] Apr 3, 1989

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Stars on sideline as season opens

The world champion Los Angeles Dodgers were without pitching ace Orel Hershiser when they faced the Reds in Cincinnati in the traditional major-league opener this afternoon, while the American League champion Oakland Athletics will be without slugger and AL MVP Jose Canseco when they entertain the Seattle Mariners in a night game. Hershiser was scheduled to face Cincinnati’s Danny Jackson in a matchup of the 1-2 finishers in the NL Cy Young voting. But Hershiser is suffering from the flu and will pitch Wednesday instead. Canseco, who had eight homers and 24 RBIs last April, will miss at least three weeks with a wrist injury. Canseco, the AL MVP and the first player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same season, will be replaced in right field by either rookie Felix Jose or Stan Javier.
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Full text: [Houston Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext)] Apr 3, 1989

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Ready or not, it’s time again to play ball

Orel Hershiser has the flu. Jose Canseco is out with a wrist injury. Dave Winfield has had emergency back surgery and isn’t expected to play until July, if then, and Cincinnati manager Pete Rose returns under the threat of suspension amid a continuing investigation of “serious allegations” that include speculation he has been betting on baseball games. In Monday’s other openers, the 1988 American League champion Oakland Athletics, expected to win it all this year, are at home against Seattle; the New York Mets, favored to win the NL title, are at home against St. Louis; injury-riddled Milwaukee is at Cleveland; Toronto is at Kansas City; San Francisco is at San Diego; and Boston is at Baltimore, where President George Bush, a light-hitting first baseman out of Yale, will throw out the ceremonial first ball. The Cubs and White Sox, along with the other 12 big league teams, begin play Tuesday. The Cubs are at home against the forlorn Philadelphia Phillies, expected to finish last again in the NL East. The Sox play their first nine games on the road and open in Anaheim against the California Angels, who more than likely will have the season’s biggest attraction, Jim Abbott, a pitcher who has only one hand.
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Jerome Holtzman, Baseball writer.

Full text: [Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext)] Apr 3, 1989

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GOLFERS RELAXED IN CALM BEFORE STORM

“Hey, Fred,” shouted a smiling Curtis Strange, when he saw former Jefferson Park terror Fred Couples making his way through autograph-seekers from the practice range toward the locker room. “Let’s go hit some.” Strange, who became the first golfer to win more than $1 million during a single season last year, and Couples, who has finished in the top 10 in three of his five Masters appearances, are among the favorites to dethrone Scotland’s Sandy Lyle as tournament champion. Others expected to challenge for the champion’s green jacket: Spain’s Seve Ballesteros, who won at Augusta in 1980 and 1983; Mark Calcavecchia and Tom Kite, who have each won two PGA events this year, and big-hitting Greg Norman of Australia, who has recovered from both a wrist injury suffered last year and Larry Mize’s 1987 Masters playoff-winning chip.
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JOHN PEOPLES

Full text: [Seattle Times] Apr 5, 1989

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Abbott to debut tomorrow night

“I think I’ve done well on an athletic basis,” [Jim Abbott] said before Ron Kittle’s run-scoring double off Angels reliever Willie Frazier in the eighth led the Chicago White Sox to a 3-2 victory over California before 20,667 at Anaheim Stadium. Abbott won the Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athlete in 1988. He was a baseball All-American at Michigan, was the eighth player taken in last June’s draft and pitched the U.S. to a gold medal over Japan in the Olympics. “Good or bad tomorrow night, I’ll know more about whether or not I belong up here now and what I have to work on,” Abbott said. “I’ll be a little nervous, but I’ve been through that before.” o o o At the other end of the Angels’ pitching spectrum, Bert Blyleven made his California debut on his 38th birthday. He worked five innings, allowed bases-empty homers to Carlton Fisk and Ivan Calderon and left with the game tied at 2… The Angels recalled Morse High product Mark McLemore from Edmonton and placed second baseman Johnny Ray on the 15-day disabled list with a wrist injury.
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Bill Center

Full text: [The San Diego Union] Apr 7, 1989

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Getting over injury bug the key for resurgent Bean Series: MASTERS NOTEBOOK

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Andy Bean has barely been heard from in the past two years, with injuries causing him to slump to his lowest position on the money list in 14 seasons on the PGA Tour. Bean, of Naples, shot a 2-under-par 70 on Thursday at the Augusta National Golf Club and trails leader Lee Trevino by three shots after the opening round of the Masters. It has been a long time since Bean has been in contention, especially at a major. Bean has had tendinitis in his right elbow, along with a wrist injury and back problems. He started to come around at the Players Championship last month, where he tied for eighth. [Jack] Nicklaus conquers back problems
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BOB HARIG

Full text: [St. Petersburg Times] Apr 7, 1989

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WHITE SOX AT ATHLETICS

ATHLETICS UPDATE: The defending American League champions still are without 40-40 man Jose Canseco, who is sidelined with a wrist injury.
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Full text: [Chicago Sun - Times] Apr 7, 1989

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Loss Gives Capitals A Message

Murray expects the return of center Bengt Gustafsson to give the Capitals a lift Saturday, when Game 3 of the tied-up Patrick Division semifinal series is contested at the Spectrum. Gustafsson, who missed the first two games while attending his father’s funeral in Sweden, was due back late tonight. In another year, Thursday’s rude awakening might have been adjudged a nightmare, because now the Capitals must win at least one game in the Spectrum, not exactly a favorite playground for visiting teams. The Flyers most likely will be without forward Murray Craven, who sat out Thursday’s game after aggravating a wrist injury Wednesday. The Capitals meanwhile were nursing a number of bumps and bruises that resulted from the two tough games at Capital Centre.
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Robert Fachet

Full text: [The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext)] Apr 8, 1989

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For the Shark, Things Are Going Swimmingly

By the time he had dried his stark blond hair, wrung out his pants cuffs and headed for dinner, golf’s most star-crossed mammal had, by virtue of doing nothing, moved up to fifth place. Three of the four men still ahead of him had slipped so badly that they led him by only one negligible shot. Instead of being a remote and endangered longshot, [Greg Norman] suddenly had just one man to fret about: Ben Crenshaw, four strokes ahead of the field and five up on Norman. Just because Norman acts like nothing bothers him, such as the wrist injury that knocked him out of the U.S. Open last year, some have started to act as though he were not entitled to the empathy extended to other athletes. If a less swashbuckling figure had suffered the [Bob Tway] and [Larry Mize] blows, we’d probably grant him a five-year dispensation to sulk. Norman never whines or alibis. He just tees it up the next week. Another of golf’s most charming-and unlucky-champions stands well ahead of Norman. If Norman is golf’s macho heartthrob, Crenshaw is the game’s sensitive, poetic sweet soul. Norman shoots sharks with a high-powered rifle. Crenshaw goes bird watching with his binoculars. Norman runs on the ragged edge in his sports cars. Ben would rather go fishin’-and not for shark.
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THOMAS BOSWELL

Full text: [The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext)] Apr 9, 1989

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Motorist hurt when car falls into canal; police submit four charges against him

- A Providence man, wanted by local and state police for driving with a suspended license, suffered neck and wrist injuries yesterday when his car skidded into a canal separating the traffic lanes of Pleasant Valley Parkway.
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Full text: [Providence Journal] Apr 10, 1989

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WHITE SOX BITS

Reliever Steve Rosenberg says the mound is different, too. “Oakland’s got a great (high) mound, you could get a nosebleed on the thing,” Rosenberg said. “Us short guys need all the advantage we can get.” Oakland’s unanimous MVP, Jose Canseco, is not expected back from his wrist injury until May. But manager Tony LaRussa obviously thinks it could be longer. “It will be whenever he’s ready,” LaRussa said. “There are no deadlines; there is no pressure. A wrist for a slugger is something you want to get 100 percent. We’ll go on without him. We want to stress the positive, not the negative.”
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Full text: [Chicago Sun - Times] Apr 10, 1989

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For Canseco, Patience Is a Tough Gig

Bruce Jenkins discusses the difficulties of being in the public eye and public perceptions of baseball players with Jose Canseco who has gotten some bad press recently and is impatiently recovering from a wrist injury.
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Jenkins, Bruce

Full text: [San Francisco Chronicle] Apr 11, 1989

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Jays’ Jesse knows pain of wrist injury

Jays’ Jesse Barfield can sympathize with Oakland slugger Jose Canseco, who is sidelined by a ligament tear in his left wrist. At first it was thought Canseco would miss three to five weeks, but the latest reports indicate it will take longer. He will have the cast removed a week from tomorrow, but then it will take 10 to 12 days of rehabilitation before he can swing a bat. After that, he is considering going to the minors for a spell. Down on the farm: Syracuse Chiefs are off to their best start in years, winning their first three games in the International League. They were leading 3-0 after two innings in Sunday’s suspended game. The Chiefs had a 4-0 start in 1971 and were 6-0 in 1970 . . . Kelly Heath, who spent spring training with the Jays, has taken over at second base at Syracuse, replacing Alexis Infante, who was called up because of the Tony Fernandez injury . . . Jose Escobar has been promoted from Knoxville as the backup infielder.
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Neil MacCarl Toronto Star

Full text: [Toronto Star] Apr 12, 1989

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McGwire’s Status Day-to-Day

Trainer Barry Weinberg said the A’s are listing [Mark McGwire]‘s status as “”day to day.” Because of the location of McGwire’s pain, Weinberg said the A’s are treating the injury as muscular rather than a disk, which would be more serious. To compensate for the absence of McGwire and Jose Canseco (wrist injury), the A’s were counting on Felix Jose to continue the form he showed while hitting .329 in the Cactus League. But the rookie is off to a .160 start with two RBIs. [Tony La Russa] was not happy with the performance of lefty Greg Cadaret last night. Although Cadaret came on to end the Angels’ six-run, fifth-inning outburst, he drew the manager’s ire by walking Mark McLemore to lead off the seventh.
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David Bush

Full text: [San Francisco Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext)] Apr 12, 1989

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A’s McGwire will be out at least three weeks

The Oakland A’s, who have been pondering life without Jose Canseco for the past few weeks, now face the likelihood that they will be without Canseco and first baseman Mark McGwire for the next month. Manager Tony La Russa isn’t too thrilled, either. The loss of Canseco to a wrist injury left a major hole in one of baseball’s best offensive lineups. Now McGwire is gone and it is beginning to look like parity has returned to the American League West. McGwire has been picking up the slack for Canseco, with three home runs and 10 RBI in his first seven games. He was the American League Player of the Week for the opening week of the season. The A’s replaced him on the roster with minor-league player Billy Beane, and figure to replace him at first base with catcher Terry Steinbach or third baseman Carney Lansford.
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Peter Schmuck:The Register

Full text: [Orange County Register] Apr 13, 1989

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The Shark and the kid tee it up again

The red-and-green plaid jacket still hangs in Jamie Hutton’s closet. The trophy from the 1988 MCI Heritage hangs near his bed. On two of his room’s three available walls _ ”my Greg Norman wall,” he calls it _ are plastered pictures, souvenirs and other memorabilia, gifts from the Australian-born golfer to his small, sick young friend. A year ago this week, Norman and Hutton combined to produce the most heartwarming moment of 1988 in professional golf. Back in Monona, Wis., though, Hutton’s memories of that Sunday afternoon at Hilton Head Island _ marching alongside Norman during his final-round 66 to claim the Heritage title, sitting by Norman as challengers Gil Morgan and David Frost fell short _ are still as real, as tangible, as the trophy Norman gave him at the Heritage award presentation. For all his trials, Jamie’s regrets are few. He hoped to see Norman play in the Western Open in nearby Chicago, but Norman’s wrist injury at the U.S. Open kept him out of the tournament. He was on hand in Florida in December for the ”Shark Shootout,” a Norman exhibition. But his poor health forced cancellation of a planed trip to Australia with Norman and his wife.
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Bob Gillespie

Full text: [The Ottawa Citizen] Apr 14, 1989

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Canseco faces rehabilitation in Double-A

[Jose Canseco], who has not played for the Oakland Athletics this season because of a wrist injury, likely will be assigned to the club’s Double-A affiliate in Huntsville, Ala., as part of the process of getting him back into shape to rejoin the major-league team. The cast that covers Canseco’s left wrist, forearm and hand is scheduled to be removed later this week, and the player hopes to make his 1989 debut by mid-May. [Sandy Alderson] said the time Canseco spends in Huntsville has not been decided. “That decision is a long way off,” he said. [Pete Rose] companion pleads innocent
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Full text: [Austin American Statesman] Apr 18, 1989

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Sports Shorts

OAKLAND, Calif., (AP) _ Oakland Athletics’ slugger Jose Canseco is back in the spotlight, but the right fielder benched with a wrist injury is making news off the field with an arrest for carrying a loaded semiautomatic pistol in his candy-apple red Jaguar.
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Anonymous

Full text: [The Sunday Patriot - News] Apr 23, 1989

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Pistol for protection?

OAKLAND, Calif., (AP) _ Oakland Athletics’ slugger Jose Canseco is back in the spotlight, but the right fielder benched with a wrist injury is making news off the field with an arrest for carrying a loaded semiautomatic pistol in his candy-apple red Jaguar.
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Full text: [The Ottawa Citizen] Apr 23, 1989

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American League The week in review

Texas is doing it with tough pitching. The Rangers lead the league with a 2.36 earned-run average. Two of the biggest keys have been their No. 4 starter, former Cub Jamie Moyer, and their No. 5 starter, rookie Kevin Brown. In their first five starts-before Brown was kayoed by Toronto Friday night-they combined for a 4-0 mark with a 1.91 ERA. “I choose to think they are the fourth and fifth starters only by definition,” said pitching coach Tom House. “I think you’d have to go a long way to find a rotation as deep as ours. Maybe Oakland’s. I don’t think you’ll find many fifth starters throwing 92 mile-an-hour sinkers.” – Bashed Brothers: Oakland is surviving despite playing without the supreme “Bash Brothers,” Jose Canseco (wrist injury) and Mark McGwire (back). The Athletics were pleased with a 6-4 mark on their recent road trip, despite being outscored 40-38. – Mad cat: Detroit pitcher Jack Morris took some shots at management Wednesday. With the Tigers off to a slow start, Morris is upset that the team has let several of its key veterans-among them Kirk Gibson, Lance Parrish, Darrell Evans and Tom Brookens-slip away in recent years. “Nobody wants to take credit for putting this team together,” Morris said. “All of our stars are gone, the people who pulled this team together. I don’t think it’s too early to be concerned. I’m not saying it still can’t happen, but I can see it snowballing in the other direction.”
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Ed Sherman.

Full text: [Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext)] Apr 23, 1989

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