NBA Playoffs
Mackey named MVP
of softball team
After setting three single-season
individual records, senior infield
er Katie Mackey was named most
valuable player at the Oregon soft
ball team’s annual awards ban
quet Thursday night at the
Casanova Center.
Freshman catcher Missy Coe
was honored as rookie of the year,
junior second baseman Andrea
Gustafson was named most im
proved and sophomore catcher
Josey Russell was anointed most
inspirational to round out the
awards.
Mackey’s record-breaking sea
son established new program
records in home runs at 14, runs
batted in at 47 and walks with 38.
Mackey also batted .308 and hit
16 doubles, while being named
Pacific-10 Conference player of
the week twice and national play
er of the week once.
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Major League Baseball
‘ 10-cent Beer Night’
hangover lingers
By Tom Withers
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Billy Martin
began the night blowing kisses to
Indians fans. A few hours later,
armed with a bat, he was running
from them.
Beer and blood flowed 25 years
ago Friday when Cleveland fans,
many drunk on 10-centbeer, turned
a seemingly harmless promotion
into a night of violence that left play
ers, fans and umpires bloodied.
Memories of “10-cent Beer
Night” at Cleveland Stadium still
shake Jim Fregosi.
“There were a lot of punches
thrown,” said the Toronto manag
er, who was playing first base for
Martin’s Texas Rangers that night.
“A lot of people got hurt. Players
got hit with chairs over their
heads. It was nasty.”
Fans fought with fans; with po
lice; with the Rangers and the In
dians, many of whom ran onto the
field to protect their Texas coun
terparts. Umpire Nestor Chylak
and Indians reliever Tom Hilgen
dorf were both struck in the head
with chairs.
“It was like we were in a battle
zone,” said umpire Joe Brinkman.
A crowd of 25,134 showed up
that warm Tuesday night enticed
by the chance to drink as many
beers as they could handle for 10
cents a piece. And by the end of
the night, it was estimated that
over 60,000 cups were quaffed.
Trouble had been brewing be
tween the teams after Rangers sec
ond baseman Lenny Randle inten
tionally ran over Cleveland
pitcher Milt Wilcox a week earli
er. Rangers fans doused the Indi
ans with beer afterward.
So when Texas arrived in
Cleveland, Indians fans were
ready and the cheap beer was ad
ditional fuel. When Martin deliv
ered his lineup card before the
game, he was booed. Never one to
back down, he responded by tip
ping his cap and blowing kisses.
Current Indians manager Mike
Hargrove, a rookie with the
Rangers in 1974, said nothing pre
pared him for the violence he
would later witness.
“I remember a father and son
going out to center field and
mooning everybody,” said Har
grove. “Streakers were running
across the field and I remember
one woman coming out and run
ning over to kiss an umpire. ”
By the sixth inning with the
Rangers leading 5-1, the crowd had
gotten drunker, rowdier and bolder.
Groups of fans began running
onto the field. Initially, they
dashed out between innings, then
between outs and finally between
pitches. Some stopped to shake
hands with players before being
escorted off the field by a badly
outnumbered security force.
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