Some of baseball’s greatest will be absent this year
(AP) Nolan Ryan is down henna on
thi' farm George Brett is up in the front
office Dale Murphy i > out helping the
kids (.arlton Risk and Koliin Yount am
gone from the game altogether
I or years, th«»v wore among baseball's
In st players And for tht first time in
more than a quarter i entury, none of
them will tie on the field on opening day
"f have no regrets about retiring, none.
Brett said "The things I'm doing this
spring made the transition easier I don t
feel that I'm missing anything from when
I was .1 player
Brett. 40. is now vit e president of base
hall operations for his former team, the
Kansas City Royals lie stayed i lose to the
ai turn at spring training, hitting fungoes
and piti fling halting pru< In e. and lias i
voice in player < tits and personnel
moves
Brett left last ()< toiler with t 1 Vt hits m
21 years Hi . last hit ' arne on his final at
hat. ■! single off I e\.e. 1 out Henke, and
drew a tip of the < up from Ryan in the
Rangers dugout
Yount, tit. did not an non in e until mid
(• ell i uar4 he was leay mg Mi I ys alike** w 11 h
(.14.: lot'- n .M! years Tlie l iironlo Blue
lays m need of a left fielder, talked dor
trig the off-season about reuniting s mint
with Ins former Brewers teammate
World Series MVP Paul Molilor. hut
nothing worked out
Yount and l-isk maintained no offu i
ties with their teams f-isk, lh. who set
the major league rei ord last season for
most games <anight. was < ot by the Chu a
go White Sm in June and was ushered
away from their linker room when In
tried to visit during the playoffs
Morphs. tM. retired from the ( olorado
Hoi kies in late M.n If'- hit BIH home
runs, most of them with the Atlanta
Braves, and won the Nl MVP tward in
pin.: and 1'iH t During tin- off season.
Murphv signed -m to In- a part time out
field i oat h with the St lx>uis (lardinaN
"I didn't want to go to spring training
to work on inv tan. whit h needs a lot of
work, he said
lor Ryan -IP this e- his first sjirtiu
awa\ froni fiasehall sinhe began be
ing league i areer in Pinn He is si lled
uled to make some personal nppeaiant es
on hehalf of the Texas Rangers, and will
throw out tin*a eremomal firs! hall w hen
the team plays its first game
I haven't thrown a hall sim e I hurl m\
urn R\an told I ' • lh:li :s \f rm: i;
\r\s >
K\.m finished with Vi major league
rei nrds. use hiding V714 strikeouts mid
seven no hitters. hul norr won a ( v
Voting Award He was i74 707 with til
si, .touts in 77 seasons, whu h ended last
'■oj.t 77 when he ton- an elbow ligament
m iking a piti li to Dave Magadan in Seat
tie
Rs.in has not undergone surgen to
repair the tear Instead, he s enjoying his
tune on Ins ‘arm in Texas, playing tennis
and usually losing to his wife. Ruth Rvan
S lid before tile 100 t season that it would
!«■ his las! go around, and said the i areer
ending injury left him without am se<
ond guessing
It i onfiruled what 1 thought and
removed all doubts he said Some pen
pie have the tendent V to say. I II play
another year or I wish I had I hat's not
the ( ase here
While the five former greats are gone,
thev ( mild tie to.jet her again in fixe years
1 hey will all he eligible for the Hall of
1 .line afte: the looli season Rvan. Hretl
and Vo in! seem like Ini ks I isk seems
»• ■ 1 \ in : M r1111•. is probably on tin
bubble
Not -,ini e to Vi has the Itasehal! Writers
Aw» nation u! America vunm mm peupe
into tin- Hall at thi' same time t'ht> only
tiinn five players made it at on< •• was the
original elm lion in Id tt>
With tlnor leaving. th*' list of active
i ari'i-r li'.icli'rs has i hanged around a hit
Without Ryan, far k Morris takes over as
the major leaguer with the most wins
I ^441 and Roger ( lemons |||*< limes No 1
in shutouts (35)
Da\e Winfield I.', is now tops among
the players left with 1,1114 hits lie
already was ahead with 4Vt home runs
And. ill a way it clears the wav for
baseball's nrv\ stars
(nan (ibn/ale? .14. has led the Al. in
home runs fur tyyo straight years, hilt ysas
always somewhat overshadowed by Rvan
in levis ken Griffey Ir f rank I'hotnas,
(iarlos Haerga Mike Piazza 1 ini Salmon.
K*■;111v l.oftou, \lbnwrt Helle Marquis
(.rissom are among the many many nth
er young players on the rise
Harry Hoods, meanwhile, already has
three MVP awards one more than Mm
pin and Yount yyon and two more than
Hrett \t .!'l. he has baseball Ians looking
to the future, even as they start this sea
son looking a little hit at the past
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Strike could be in baseball’s future
M U YOKf AIM I iiili-r i| .
idvlln sun 'if hj»r11lit training, no
one w ants lo think about it.
mm h less talk .iIkiuI it At a time
of hope. it's baseball's worst
nightmare Strike live
I in* newspapers have been
filled with threats to do lh.it.
s.n s Ku hard Kav 11• h. the ow n
ers labor negotiator
"You don't i onfrnnt that until
you have to, and we re a very
long was from doing that play
ers association head Donald
l ehr say s
The collet live bargaining
agreement signed after a 'bi-day
ItK kinit m 10*10 expired last l>«••
tl While owners agreed not to
lo< k out players this year, the
union is considering a pmtts five
strike during tie* se< ond half of
the season to prevent owners
from unilaterally implementing
a salary t ap
W orn inv; about impondin
i risus is somothing vvo'd rathor
nut vi"t into timi s.ivs Milw.iu
kt i Brovvors prosuiont Bud
S«* 11. t hairman of tin' rilling
i* \o» ut t v»* i mi in 11 " I huru s so
nun h optimism, tin- spring is
11 lii'il v\ ith I hat, von hatu to si'f
any nogativu talk now Wo Imvd
a lot of monumtiini building,
vvu'ro i.oming off a groat year
attondanio yvisn. wo havo tho
nays stadiums tIn* oxpandod
play offs
lidir lias spokon to ovary
major loaguo toam in Florida
and Arizona tins spring, wnrn
mg playors that a striko is a roal
possibi litv Flavors y\ ant to
i ontinuo tho systoin that pushod
Ibo ay orago salary to $ 1 .()7fi,0H‘l
hist soason
"You’d liko to think this
m iglit bo a y oar yy o ( on Id avoid
problotns but it may not work
out t!iat win \tLint.i pitcher
I'mii (.I.ivine says It doesn t
sound 'good, from what I’ve
heard
[here have heen seven work
stoppages in a 22-vein span:
strikes in 1072. 108(1. 1'IHl and
lt)Hr>, and lot knots in 1074.
lo'fi and 1000 Owners are
insisting that players agree to a
salary i ap. and that’s likely to
i nose a confrontation
Management Imam nil dot n
menls show collective profits
tlropped to $22.2 million in
1002 from SOO million the previ
ous year, and Rat itch predit Is a
$140 million loss when loo t is
added up
"It seems like they re saving a
lot of the same things they’ve
said before,” l odd /file of the
St Louis (-animals said ”1 guess
we il hoped to hear something
more after so long ”
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