The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

June 28, 1990

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The Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Thursday, June 28, 1990

Page:

32

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Union News THURSDAY JUNE 28 1990 Business Obituaries 35 A 5 sign Canseco for $235 million Slugger highest paid player OAKLAND Calif (AP) a good thing not a salary cap for the Oakland Athletics Salaries escalating each time a superstar negotiates a new deal reached new heights yes terday when Jose Canseco be came baseball's highest paid player The slugger agreed to a five year deal worth $235 million moving him ahead of the Don Mattingly who in April signed a five year $196 million deal Not even Canseco believes worth the money think what Canseco said what the market holds what the organizations are willing to pay And the shooting for a third straight trip to the World Sdries are paying the price Canseco who will get $51 mil lion in 1995 the final year of his new deal becomes first $5 million man The 25 year old Canseco will collect a $35 million signing bonus $28 million in 1991 $36 million in 1992 $41 million in 1993 and $44 million in 1994 He will earn $2 million in salary for this season There are incentives too If Canseco is named the MVP collect $100000 An MVP award in the playoffs and World Series is each worth an other $50000 Canseco becomes the fourth player under contract mak ing more than $3 million a year Pitchers Dave Stewart and Dennis Eckersley and outfielder Rickey Henderson had already reached that salary plateau think the main thing that dictated the figure was the mar Canseco said market was going up There are two other players who are close to the $4 million mark The bare facts are what done during the years what I represent to the and for the and also the community where we came up wih the Oakland general manager Sandy Alderson said signing Canseco was necessary if the team was sincere about ing the competitiveness and 1 Of Rl I kHwa JOSE CANSECO laughs about how much money going to make at a press conference yesterday in Oakland Calif identity of the Oakland into the no question that our payroll is reaching the point of some limitation" Alderson said were eighth or ninth in the league Without regard to this contract we will be No 1 or 2 by some expensive being the de fending World Series champions 7 Continued on Page 38 New Pirate recalls legacy of Clemente PITTSBURGH (AP) Growing up in baseball mad Puerto Rico Orlando Merced have to look far to be reminded of the wondrous legacy of Roberto Qemente the most re vered athlete Merced lived a few houses down a San Juan street from the Clemente family and was 6 years old when the Hall of ame out fielder died in a New Eve 1972 plane crash His playmates included three sons and naturally their favorite pas time was playing baseball could forget Roberto Clemente? Every young kid in Puerto Rico wants to play for the Pittsburgh Pirates because of Merced said recently while playing for Class AAA Buffalo here I am right now in Triple A playing for the Pirates Someday I may play in Pitts burgh just like Roberto Clem That day came sooner than later The Pirates recalled Merced from Buffalo yesterday and optioned outfielder John Can gelosi to the Class AAA Bisons Of the hundreds of players in the organization few have progressed as quickly in one season as the 23 year old first baseman outfielder rom a 165 pounder who hit 241 last year at Class AA Harrisburg he has be come a solid 180 pounder with a277 average nine home runs and 41 RBIs in 68 games at Buffalo Lifting weights in the off season has helped lift his batting aver age put on a few pounds and every time I hit the ball going said Merced a switch hitter whose previous single season high was seven homers a line drive hitter but the ball is going out for Way way out hit one ball in Buffalo that would have been in our third deck (in Three Rivers Pi rates general manager Larry Doughty said extra weight a problem for him because he kept his hit some balls here Buffalo manager Terry Collins said One Merced homer was estimated at 430 feet and is considered the longest in Pilot brief history connection to the Clemente family led to him sign ing with Pittsburgh He was at the Clemente home when son Luis signed a professional contract and someone there told the Pi rates about him He tried out and signed a day later Just a few frustrated months before Merced had given up base ball briefly when he been scouted while playing high school and American Legion baseball was a very lucky person be cause I knew the Clemente farni Merced said too many people have exceptional friends like him I wanted Bobby Jr and Luis to keep playing but now here I am (in) the big In one year Merced has be come a Mercedes caliber pros pect His glove is still suspect he had 11 errors in his first 50 games as he adjusts to shifting from the outfield to first base position here is A Pi rates general manager Larry Doughty said here to Merced has a chance to be an outstanding player but he still has some things to im prove Collins said got some power from both sides of Continued on Page 38 Coleman Net ted 1 I NEW YORK (AP) Derrick Coleman went to the New Jersey Nets with the first pick before the NBA draft took on a look last night Coleman a 6 foot 10 235 pound All America forward was the all time leading rebounder in collegi ate history and all time leading scorer with 2143 points He was a starter for four years for the Orangemen and was almost universally considered the best NBA prospect With Coleman taken big men became a scarce commodity Of the remaining 26 picks in the first round 13 were guards or perime ter players Seattle took 6 3 Oregon State point guard Gary Payton and Denver followed with 6 1 Chris Jackson a 29 point scorer in his two years in college Not since Detroit took Isiah Thomas with the No 2 pick in 1981 has a guard been taken as high as Payton Then came 6 7 Dennis Scott of Georgia Tech an outstanding pe rimeter shooter who was taken by Orlando and 6 5 guard Kendall Gill of Illinois selected by Char lotte The string of shooters was broken when Minnesota selected 7 foot elton Spencer of Louis ville and the Sacramento Kings grabbed 6 7 national player of the year Lionel Simmons of La Salle with the first of their record four first round picks The Kings later selected guard Travis Mays of Texas at No 14 7 foot center Duane Causwell of Temple with the 18th pick and forward Anthony Bonner of St Louis at No 20 The seventh pick was the own after they finished with a 23 59 record this season The other picks were acquired in trades with Dallas and Utah The Maver icks sent the 14th and 18th picks to the Kings in a deal that brought Rodney McCray to Dallas Continued on Page 37 Whalers Tim has plenty of company in misery of be Nealson tags out and third bases dur By JERRY RADDING WIMBLEDON England If there was any consolation for Tim Mayotte and there really he was only part of the thunderbolt of destruction that hit the Wimbledon seeds on Tuesday While the No 6 Tim was taken from the grass he loves the most in these storied All England Championships five other seeds were buried in the first round our of them No 4 and three time champion John McEnroe No 5 seed and recent rench Open titlist Andres Gomez No 12 Pete Sampras and No 14 Petr Korda all were ousted on the same day According to the Big record keepers this was the most seeded players to lose in the first round since they began the seeding sys tem in 1927 The loss to South African south paw Gary Muller marked the first time Mayotte was beaten in the first round here In 10 tries he had been a semifinalist once and a quarterfinalist five times includ ing the last two years The Springfield worst loss here before this week was in the 1987 third round to Mikael Pern fors in five sets And if four set set back to Muller was disappointing consider the straight set losses by McEnroe to Derrick Rostagno (ranked No 129) and by Gomez to GOTCHA! Westfield shortstop Dana Bryan Kudrikow between second Jim Grabb (No 49) On the bright side for Mayotte he says he came here feeling well physically There were no traces of the back spasms that put him out of the warmup grass tourna ment here at Queens Club or the knee problems that forced him to withdraw from both the Italian and rench Opens were no problems with my back at all but obviously I was feeling a little short of match said Mayotte later He played a tournament match since the start of April when he was in the AT Chal lenge in Chicago Mayotte still came here with high expectations because always play well here I thought if Jim Gipe photo ing American Legion baseball game yesterday at Westfield Voca tional High School Legion roundup on Page 36 I could get in play a couple good matches then I would right back where like to be It just meant to happen this week know in the past things have gone my way here in the early rounds so a little dis couraged But I still feel excited to get my game back together and start playing just got to go back to the drawing board and see what Mayotte feels he made the right choice when he recently changed coaches after working with Bill Drake for six years His new team is made up of Harvard coach Dave ish and young New En turn of events Continued on Page 39 Indians I closer to Marriage with I Isles appears over 7 I 7'' By GENE It appears that the six year marriage between the New York i the Springfield Indi i ans is Over A sequence of events yesterday I 5mhkitprqbhbl6thht the Island I cast its' fortunes in upstate New York' for the 1990 91 season' Tribe will venture down Interstate 91 to hook up with the Hartford Whalers Things appeared to have fallen i into place yesterday morning at the American Hockey annual meeting in Bermuda when automobile dealer Michael Canta nucci announced he had reached agreement with Boston Bruin gen eral manager Harry Sinden over I the sale of the dormant Boston Braves franchise I had breakfast with Harry Sinden this morning and the done going to Spring field and the Islanders are coming said Cantanucci buy ing the Braves franchise I went to Bill and said have a franchise' and I want you to be my I said Cantanucci i Sinden however denied that a deal had been consumated when reached by telephone last night have not reached an agree i ment yet We have had certain ne gotiations that may or may not lead to a said Sinden a I little premature to say we have a deal at this time Certain things i have to fall into place first before we have a final Those are expected to happen this morning i when the matter is brought up be fore the board of governors for a vote after which Cantanucci is expected to request to move the franchise to Troy NY 7 Indians owner Peter Cooney who is on record as wanting to enter another agreement with the Islanders refused to confirm yes think putting the cart be fore the horse because not A' A' MMlV? 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