Tuesday, April 18, 1972

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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Tuesday, April 18, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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By MARC FELDMAN
If a scout for the New York
Yankees offered you $30,000 to
sign a contract to throw base-
balls for them after you gradu-
ated from high school and you
lived just forty miles from Yan-
kee Stadium, do you think you
could have resisted such an in-
ducement to come to the Uni-
versity of Michigan?
Such was the dilemma fac-
ing Michigan star lefthander
Pete Helt three summers ago
as he finished a superlative
pitching career for Morristown
(N.J.) High School.
As should be obvious to Mich-
igan baseball buffs, Helt chose
Ann Arbor and has gone on to
pitch .fine baseball for Michi-

gan during his two and one half
years here. As a freshman Pete
flashed onto the Big Ten base-
ball scene with a flourish as he
led the conference in earned run
average and won five of eight
games.
Last year, as a sophomore,
Helt's record improved to 6-3
although he fell to third in
ERA. In both seasons he has
been a second team All Big Ten
selection for the Wolverines.
In the light of the success,
Helt has had in college baseball,
it might be expected that he'd
be bitter about not taking the
Yankee offer three summers
ago. However; Pete's feelings on
the subject are of a different
nature.

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THE WORK IS TOUGH!
THE HOURS ARE SUN-UP TO SUN-DOWN.
AND SOME WILL NOT APPRECIATE YOU.
FOOD AND LANGUAGE MAY BE AS
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AND ALL THIS FOR NO PAY!
EXCEPT, FOR WHAT GOD GIVES YOU.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
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"I definitely think I made the
right move by coming to Michi-
gan. At seventeen, I didn't really
understand the advantages and
disadvantages of each alterna-
tive."
Helt is an example of the new
breed of baseball player in this
country. Years ago, a teenager
would have snapped at any of-
fer from the big leagues, but to-
day the importance of being
able to do something beside hurl
or hit a baseball has become
another consideration.
The Michigan tennis team's
ill-fated match with North-
.western, originally scheduled
for last Friday but washed out,
wa~s again rained out Sunday,
and now will be scheduled for
sometime in mid-May, just be-
fore the Big Ten finals, The
netters are hoping for better
weather when they journey to
Toledo for. a match this aft-
ernoon.
It is no coincidence that some
of the finest young talent com-
ing to themajors in the past
two or three years has come
from the college ranks, not the
minor leagues. Dartmouth's
Pete Broberg is working for Ted
Williams in Texas, Broberg's
teammates at Dartmouth, Chuck
Seelbach is a Tiger, Steve Dun-
ning of Stanford is a hard-
throwing Cleveland Indian and,
University of Texas graduate
Burt Hooton pitched a no hit-
ter for the Chicago Cubs this

past weekend.
In .high school, Helt was one
of the finest athletes in New
Jersey as he pitched Morris-
town to three straight state
titles and quarterbacked the
school football team well enough
to earn third - team All-State
recognition.
Helt compiled a 33-4 record
and struck out over 600 batters,
breaking St. Louis Cardinal Al
Santorini's state record for
whiffs in the process.
Usually high school pitching
stars rely almost exclusively on
a blazing fastball and some even
fall by the wayside in better
competition where the batters'
eyes are more keen.
Helt is an exception to this
rule as he was strictly a curve
ball pitcher in high school and
hasthad to develop a slider and
fastball in college.
"When I came out of high
school I thought I could pitch
pro ball even though I really
had just one pitch. College base-
ball has given me a chance to
work on new pitches and im-
prove the old ones, while the
pressure in the pros to produce
right away would not have al-
lowed me the time to work on
my game."
"In going to college, I have
taken most of the risks out of
playing professionally one day.
With a college degree, baseball
will not be a life or death thing
but, rather a challenge to deal
with when the time comes. Any-
way, the secondary phase of the
draft for college players is a
second chance for us to still
make the majors."
Helt chose Michigan from
among Connecticut, Penn State,
Rutgers, and Duke and many
smaller colleges on the East
coast which offered him schol-
arships to play both baseball
and football. However, he was
impressed with Michigan's com-

bination of big time athletics
.nd high acadenic standards.
"The main advantage college
afforded me was time; I have
been able to improve my pitch-
ing very much without the
pressure to win that would have

be n present in p o baseball.
"I'd be lying if X said I didn'
want to pitch in the majo-
leagues after college, but they
I'll be able to try it with i
healthier attitude, and mayb
that money will still be there."

-Daily-Jim Judkis

Helt hurls

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