Friday, July 22,.977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Doge Eleven ._ rda, Juy2_177TEMCIGNDIYPaeEee The winner is... Baseball players qualify for awards i By The Associated Press The All-Star break seems a proper time to make the first half awards for the baseball season. The winners need not make any acceptance speeches. In fact, it would be preferred if they did not. THE FREE AGENT WHITE ELEPHANT TROPHY-Award- ed jointly to Don Baylor of the California Angels and Wayne Garland of the Cleveland In- dians. Baylor, who gave California Angels owner Gene Autry his autograph in exchange for about $275,000 annually for the next six years, is batting a pathetic .230 with a mere 31 runs batted Garland has rewarded Cleve- land's 10-year $2.3 million in- vestment so far with a 7-9 won- loss log and a 4.31 earned run average. THE CHARLES 0. FINLEY GOOD GUY AWARD-This one goes to M. Donald Grant, chair- man of the board of the New York Mets, who managed to get most of metropolitan New York angry by trading away folk hers Tom Seaver. Finley was never the most popular guy in Oakland, but that's small potatoes compared to having a healthy chunk of eight million people angry at you. THE DISAPPEARING ACT PLAQUE - To Eddie Stanky, who managed the Texas Ran- gers for one whole game and decided that was quite enough, thank you. THE WHAT, ME WORRY? CERTIFICATE - Presented to Ted Turner, owner of the Atlan- ta Braves. Suspended from base- ball for one year, Turner did not pout but simply cruised off into the sunset, headed for New- port, R.I., and the America's Cup yachting trials. Accepting the award for Com- mander Turner will be Popeye, the sailor man. A maia nrunrgarian THE PRESTO CHANGO TRO- PHY - Awarded to the city of. Chicago for the performance of the White Sox, who must be do- ing it with magic. Both Chicago clubs reached the mid-season break in first place and you could have got- ten awfully rich if you knew three months ago that was go- ing to happen. THE TEAM TURMOIL AWARD - Given to the New York Yankees, whose first half adventures have been something akin to a television soap opera. Will Billy and Reggie kiss and make up? Does George really write out the lineups? Is Thur- man peeved or pleased? Can Catfish come out of his coma? Stay tuned, fans. THE BARGAIN BASEMENT FREE AGENT AWARD - To Cleveland outfielder Paul Dade, one of the cheapies in last win- ter's auction who has paid large dividends with a .326 batting av- erage that has kept him among the American League's top ten hitters. The award consists of a wal- let, filled with Wayne Garland's withholding tax payment. kee Brewers. Reconstructed during the off- season through a pair of major trades with Kansas City and Boston and the signing of free agent third baseman Sal Bando, the Brewers reached the All- Star break with a 41-49 record. Their record at the same time last year? Why, 41-49, of course. THE ENDURANCE CERTIFI- CATE-To the fans of Toronto and Seattle, accepting their ex- pansion teams' last place status as the price for a place in ma- jor league baseball. THE SAMSON HAIRY AWARD - Presented to relief pitcher Al Hrabosky of the St. Louis Cardinals, who was re- quired to shave off his Fu Man- chu mustache because of Manr ager Vern Rapp's clean cut rules. Hrabosky apparently cut off his effectiveness as well. With his mustache, he had won 29 games and saved 44 others in the last three years. After shaving this season he is Cardinals, ease up on hair rules ST. LOUIS-The Board Chair- man of the St. Louis Cardinals last night relaxed his rigid grooming rules in order to per- mit relief pitcher Al Hrabosky to regrow his beard and mus- tache. R a p p' s rules prohibiting beards and mustaches had been challenged by Hrabosky during spring training and during a stormy period in May when the pitcher was suspended 48 hours for insubordination after refus- ing to meet with his manager. In 1927 Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees drove in 339 runs between them. 2-4 with just six saves and a PHY - To Commissioner Bowie 4.58 earned run average in 37 Kuhn, who wore a simple suit games. during 1 a s t October's frigid See what a sunburned lip can World Series and had the same do to a pitcher's performance? outfit on for the All-Star Game, Accepting the award will be played in the midst of New Telly Savalas. York's longest heat wave in 11 THE WEATHERVANE TRO- years. 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"Reggie Jackson is one of the most accom- modating players in the major leagues when it comes to obliging autograph-seekers-in particular kids. He often spends about a half- hour in the stands signing autographs and talking to the fans. You couldn't ask anything more from a ballplayer than that." There have been conflicting reports concern- ing the post-game incident, which Steinbrenner explained as follows: "It seems youngsters entered a restricted parking lot protected by police and pushed past the guards in a group following Reggie. He was trying to accommodate the group at the time, signing autographs, when several of the young men started to shout obscenities at Reggie that were so bad and vile that you could not print them." AT THIS POINT, Jackson apparently chased one of the youngsters, who either fell to the ground or was tackled by Jackson. "Here is a player trying to do what you would like to see all the players do, obliging the fans, when, from all reports, several ill- mannered youngsters started calling him ob- scene names for no reason at all," Steinbren- ner said. "HOW DO THEY expect you to ask players to stop and honor requests for autographs when-' this type of thing occurs? I can't say I can blame Reggie Jackson if he never signed an- other autograph. It's too bad, but one rotten apple can ruin a whole barrel of good ones. What good comes when a youngster would shout obscenities like this? "It was uncalled for. The youngster had no business there in the private lot in the first place. The entire All-Star Game, with 56,000 spectators, was carried off without any inci- dent and here come a few ill-mannered young- sters who had to spoil a perfect record."