Bobble Offseason Errors Intoflorida New Crew Coaches Fight Current
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friday, march 2,. 1970 daily ncbrcsken psg3 15 Major-league- rs bobble offseason errors into Florida With snoW,itiH blanketing much of the and the country the infield they can deal with the problem of where to Boston also is set in. the field with the signing of basketball season winding down, few are put people thinking him In the batting order. Jim Rice to baseball's largest contract and Wednesday's baseball. But, has for all 26 of spring training begun major Traditionally a lead off Rose would have to re- arrival of holdout Carl Yaztremski. But manager Don teams. hitter, league place the fleet Larry Bowa to take that spot, an unlikely "Zip" Zimmer must revitalize a ravaged mound staff, de- A month in the Arizona or Florida sun allows the clubs event. pending on Dennis Eckerslcy and Mike Torre to carry work on last season's areas, evaluate new to problem play- Equally as a situation would find the egotis- even more of the load than last year. the for the unlikely ers and set lineup year. tical Rose batting second, where he would have to sacri- Another team struggling to fill a large hole will be the some teams have than And larger problems others. fice himself for the good of the team. And manager Minnesota Twins, who must find a first basemen to re- Danny Ozark probably will not change the meat of the place the traded Rod Carew, who was most of the Mintie division's strongest hitting lineup. sotatearm r v The also af- y 0, woes are Meanwhile the West Coast version of the "best, team; flicting the world champion New York Yankees. money can buy,! .the California: Angels, i savoring tlie Lemon's staff prospects of the coming season with baseballs best hitter,! The Bronx Bombers have an enviable problem, because Carew; and only needing to find a shortstop .to complete: ' : 4 owner . George Steinbrenner has purchased the best pitch- their; lineup, . ry The Cincinnati Reds must regroup under new manager ing staff in baseball for manager Bob Lemon. The problem The omer division champion of last , Raitisas John McNamara, who replaces the fired Sparky Anderson. year City," is that Steinbrenner too is ; Reds also must find a for bought many pitchers. plagued by minor questions with regulars, especially in The replacement veteran third award winner and the Yankees Pete Cy Young Ron Guidry theutfield,and on the pitching staff. baseman Rose, who left the team in this year's ver- ' pitching staff, which already included free agents Catfish ' vv; sion of "buy a player for a larger check" at Philadelphia. HeaJinfc north Hunter and Rich Gossage, will be joined by Tommy will The Reds also are in search of a missing All teams be selecting their squads to go north for pitching staff, John, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers last year, the cause of their demise the last two seasons. the regular season with 650 of 1200 player? in camp and Luis Tiant. A total 10 are for a Ride the bench of pitchers fighting the big leagues and the rest going to Double and maximum making of eight spots. : The Phillies must find something to do with their ex- Triple A minor league teams. : Replacing the free agents will be a problem at Los For if hr starts a veteran I Hie first of 350 exhibition games will take place March pensive superstar. anywhere, Angeles and Boston, which lost left handed pitcher Bill starter from the National League East's must 1 and continue until" 5, league champion go "Spaceman" Lee along with Tiant. April although M major to the bench. Hardly a influence on a team. season April 4 in Cincinnati. : v settling The Dodgers are set in the field and at the plate, but regular begins Tentative plans call for Rose to start at first base. ' need to establish a pitching rotation with at least one pit- Seventeen of the 26 teams have their training camps in Richie Hebner, who was disturbed about the addition of cher who can throw the ball over 80 mph consistently. Florida, and most of the games take place In that state: would move to third base, and Mike Schmidt would Rose, Perhaps it will be young Bob Welch, the rookie who over- Hie other nine teams and most of the remainder of the to to the News. go second, according Sporting powered Reggie Jackson in the second game of the World games can be found in Arizona. 'Mr&-- When the Phillies what 1 figure out to do with Rose in Series last year. Next week: A preview of the National League East v . New crew coaches fight current of team's low morale By Kirk Wolgamott we can get them, it will be fun. It will also be good "It's a lot more fun than it looks, itYnot a spectator competition." Sport. It's a participant sport. The big thrill is in the Despite the fact that they have been the defending Big "We are always recruiting new people. Right now we rowing," he Said, , Eight champions for the past four years, the 1979 season are the second largest sport on campus, but we need to Season opener a hard could be long row for the Nebraska crew team. keep those high numbers to maintain a high degree of The Huskers open their seasort In Oklahoma City on The team has suffered morale problems that followed competition," he said. March' 31 against Alabama, Witchita State, Oklahoma the Coach Frank Sands last Sands "We never down If have an V resignation of year. But, turn anyone. you interest State, Washburn, and the Oklahoma BqatOub. , , a new We has been replaced by coaching staff made up of in crew come on out. promise we never cut anyone." Hubka and Volkman said Jim f)aiton &c Welch and freshman coach Paw Koerner, men's coach Wes One of the with the crew team has been the varisty problems Jim Richardson, who row. for the varsity heavyweight Hubka and womenVcdach Dave Volkman. lack of funds from the Crew is a university. not recogniz- eight team are the people pn Ms team So AH coaches have ed top year's far, three of the hew UNL crew team in the Big Eight Conference. boat-hous- sport they have been, framing indoorslU the tank in the e a 1976 has the last experience. Hubka, graduate, spent Growing popularity but plan to practice outside as soon as weather three as an "We have all We years engineer. to pay it ourselves. cant blame the permits.-"':- :'' ,iN He will return to class in the fall. Volkman and but that has made it for us. The fact ?'' university, tougher "We are. still members off water train who also fill oarsmen on the also makes crew a.more You a feel- recruiting during Koerner, spots varsity team, special sport. get great Volkman added. "As soon as the water thaws we are still full time students at the and when have ing." university. ing of accomplishment striving you to go it Beach. That us Low on Koerner said. will be out training at Capital only gives point your own," one week before the first meet. That Hubka said he was not with the club the has been the about of training totally pleased Recently, sport spreading throughout doesn't seem like much but it's when coupl- when he came. midwest. There are 15 to 20 teams within a 550 mile actually good f; ed with our other training methods. We should be able to "I crew was at a low for awhile. The organi- radius of Lincoln, Koerner said. Four schools in the guess point Big ? ?r a respectable showing v y zation waslow before the old coach resigned," he said. "A Eight-N- U, Oklahoma State, Kansas ami Kansas State-ha- ve give rff r HubkaaM Nebraska ias tW best lot of people nave been turned away by those problems. crew teams. Creighton University also started a team frpft&rit m the and best in the Now we are going to try and minimize those aspects and this year. Big Eight possibly the midwest. make crew a good time again." "Everyone thinks there is something crazy about the "We have a new eight nik shell coming from Maine as Volkman agreed with Hubka. rowing that goes on in the midwest, since there isn't much soon as someone gets up there to get it. Our indoor tank is 'The situation has left us weak for numbers. Right water around. Rowing doesnt really take that much excellent," he said. "What we need is more people to now what we need is more people," Volkman said. 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