Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 06:17:34 -0500 Reply-To: Texas Rangers MLB Discussion <RANGERS@TAMU.EDU> Sender: Texas Rangers MLB Discussion <RANGERS@TAMU.EDU> From: Beau Sharbrough <beau@CONNECT.NET> Subject: News from around the world
Here are a few semi-unrelated news notes. Check out the batting average of Todd Zeile. Look at Clayton's too while you're at it. Where's Mario Mendoza when you need him?
17 GAMES DOES NOT A SEASON MAKE
TEXAS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
-- - - -- -- -- ----
TGoodwin cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .226
McLemore 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .304
Greer lf 4 1 3 0 0 0 .333
JuGonzalez rf 4 1 1 3 0 1 .258
RPalmeiro dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .296
IRodriguez c 4 1 2 1 0 0 .288
Zeile 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .230
Stevens 1b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .328
Clayton ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .119
Totals 36 4 12 4 0 4
Ouch. It IS ten percent of the season. If Clayton hits .300 for the next 50 games, he'll get to .250.
TATIS TATTOES TATERS LIKE TOPSY
(AP) - A St. Louis Cardinals player made major league
homer
history Friday night, with Mark McGwire merely a
footnote.
Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in one inning as the
Cardinals
beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 12-5.
... that trade is looking better since we re-signed Clayton.
REMEMBER "WINNING UGLY?"
W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away
--- --- ---- -- --- --- ---- ----
Texas 9 8 .529 - 6-4 W-2 3-4 6-4
Anaheim 7 10 .412 2 3-7 W-1 2-4 5-6
Oakland 7 10 .412 2 5-5 L-1 5-3 2-7
Seattle 6 10 .375 2-1/2 3-7 L-3 4-6 2-4
Doug Rader said it about LaRussa's White Sox when Rader managed our Rangers. It looks like they'll have trouble getting up a team to win the West this year. Then again, the Rangers have opened the season with a slumping 3-4 homestand, followed by a 6-4 road trip to Seattle, Oakland, New York, and Minnesota.
That's gutsy, I'll stay tuned.
CUTTING OUT THE DEADWOOD
(AP) - A lot of people who have been getting season tickets to
Michigan football games will never get to use them. They're
dead.
The university ran a check on some of the 23,000 season ticket
holders and found 275 were listed as deceased by Social
Security.
Letters were sent to their addresses to verify the deaths and
to
learn if there was a surviving spouse who would remain entitled to the tickets, The Detroit News said. Descendants are
ineligible
to inherit the tickets. Seventeen of those listed as deceased
turned out to be alive. "There was one little bug, I guess you
could call it, in the system," said ticket manager Martin Bodnar.
"I deeply regret this."
Bodnar said 22 calls in response to the letter were from "widows who had not notified us their husbands had passed away. I told them we would transfer the tickets into their name." Other calls, he said, were from children "who had been using their deceased parents' tickets for years. I explained to them our firm policy that after parents pass away, their season tickets are not to be transferred to their children or anyone else." Michigan has over 9,000 people on a waiting list for season tickets.
Looks like 236 down, 8,764 to go.
-Beau
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Beau Sharbrough
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Grapevine, Texas