Rocker returns after a two-week suspension
ATLANTA — John Rocker has
served his time.
The Atlanta reliever, suspended
the first two weeks of the season
for offending foreigners, minori
ties and gays, rejoins the roster
•Tuesday night against the
^Philadelphia Phillies.
Rocker drew mostly cheers
when he pitched at Turner Field
r in an exhibition game April 1, two
. days before opening day. No or
ganized protests were scheduled
4 in conjunction with his return, al
though a civil rights official once
again called on Atlanta to trade
* Rocker.
“It’s still a blemish on the [At
lanta] organization ... and, to a
certain degree, a shame for the
city,” said Michael Bond, deputy
* director of the NAACP’s Atlanta
chapter.
After his exhibition appearance
in Atlanta, Rocker returned to
Florida for extended spring train
ing. He was back with the team in
Milwaukee last weekend, working
out during the games and doing
everything else like a regular team
member.
“I don’t think it will be a prob
lem when we’re in Atlanta,” man
ager Bobby Cox said. “John still
has many fans in Atlanta. I’m not
worried about it.”
Atlanta, who was off Monday,
split its first 12 games without
Rocker. Their next nine games are
in Atlanta, easing the transition for
the controversial closer who saved
38 games last season but made in
furiating comments in a December
issue of Sports Illustrated.
Rocker was banned from base
ball until May 1 by commissioner
Bud Selig, who also imposed a
$20,000 fine. But arbitrator Shyam
Das reduced the suspension to the
first two weeks of the season, cut
the fine to $500 and allowed Rock
er to report to spring training on
March 2.
The pitcher apologized to his
teammates in a private clubhouse
meeting and issued a statement
expressing remorse for his state
ments. But he has refused to dis
cuss the issue since that day.
“We’ve talked about this so
much, that now it’s just time to go
out and get it over with,” Cox said.
“We’re not making a big deal
about it. That’s [the media’s]
thing.”
Atlanta’s next road trip begins
April 28 in laid-back San Diego.
But Rocker figures to receive his
harshest reaction in places like
Philadelphia (May 12-14), Chica
go (May 29-31) and definitely*New
York, where Atlanta meets the
Mets in a four-game series begin
ning June 29.
Already, photocopied flyers
have been passed out at Shea Sta
dium advertising “John Rocker
Battery' Day” for Atlanta’s first se
ries in New York, where fans are
still outraged by the pitcher’s infa
mous interview.
“Imagine having to take the 7
train to [Shea Stadium] looking
like you’re [in] Beirut next to some
kid with purple hair, next to some
queer with AIDS, right next to
some dude who got out of jail for
the fourth time, right next to some
20-year-old mom with four kids,”
Rocker told the magazine.
He also said, “The biggest thing
I don’t like about New York are the
foreigners. I’m not a very big fan of
foreigners. You can walk an entire
block in Times Square and not
hear anybody speaking English....
How the hell did they get into th^s
country?”
Baseball is concerned about
providing security for Rocker out
side of Atlanta.
“It won’t only be New York,”
Selig said. “He got booed [during
an exhibition series] in Venezuela
— a lot — and all over.”
Atlanta is hoping that Rocker
will handle the wrath of the fans
differently than he did during last
year’s playoffs, when he engaged
in a verbal war with New Yorkers
even before his magazine inter
view.
The Associated Press
Sale of Royals a go, thanks to boost in stock market
By Ronald Blum
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Before dis
cussing realignment and the pro
posed sale of the Kansas City Roy
als, baseball owners had a bigger
concern Monday.
“What’s the market doing?”
More than one owner asked this
question in the hallway before the
start of their two-day meeting.
After learning that the Dow
Jones Industrial Average and the
NASDAQ composite index each
posted gains of 200-plus points,
they got down to business. The
$96 million sale of the Royals to
David Glass was the most pressing
item.
“It seems like a slam dunk,”
Kansas City president Mike Her
man said. “It will be unanimously
approved.”
Glass has been the Royals chair
man since September 1993, about
six weeks following the death of
founding owner Ewing Kauffman.
Under Kauffman’s succession
plan, the team was put up for bid
ding to Kansas City-area individu
als and companies, with the mon
ey going to charity.
Last September, baseball own
ers refused to approve a $75 mil
lion purchase by New York lawyer
Miles Prentice.
Glass, the former chief execu
tive officer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,
then re-entered the bidding. He
said the Royals will be run a little
differently once he is the owner,
not just the chairman.
“There have been lots of deci
sions we had to defer during the
period of time we thought we
would shortly have an owner,” he
said.
“We probably have fewer dol
lars committed beyond this year
than any other team in baseball.
That was sort of deferring for the
person who owns the team so they
can make that decision.”
While the Royals’ sale appeared
headed for approval Monday
night or Tuesday, it became clear
there would be no vote on realign
ment until June at the earliest.
Commissioner Bud Selig has
floated a plan that would shift Ari
zona from the NL West to the AL
West and move Tampa Bay from
the AL East to the National
League.
In addition, it’s possible the AL
could have four teams in the West
and East, but six in the Central,
and the NL could junk the wild
card and go to four four-team divi
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