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Baseball Fan:
Is He Crazy?
By DAN DONOVAN
Collegian Sports Editor
Dennison Durrant plopped down on the
smooth leather couch in Dr. Amos Slaughter's
well-furnished office.
"DoC," he said to the noted psychoanalyst, "I
need your help. All my friends think I'm weird
and keep laughing at me."
"W e 11," Slaughter
said. "We all have our
ir k s and peculiari
ties "
"But Doc." interrupt
ed Durrant, "I'm really
messed up. You see, I like
to watch baseball."
"Hmmm," the doctor
said as he noted the un
usual symptoms on his
note pad.
"My friends are be
ginning to compare me
with rocking chairs, but
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pens," the patient said. "They call me Ben Frank
lin, because I'm so old-fashioned.
"They can't understand why I get a thrill out
of baseball," Durrant continued. "They tell me,
'who likes to watch a guy on a hill throw a little
white ball past a guy with a stick?' They are
forever telling me about the excitement of foot
ball, the real American pastime."
"Hmm," hummed the doctor,
football?"
"No, it's not that," pleaded Dennison, "I dig
all those passes and running plays and all that. but
when spring comes around I get an impulsive
desire to watch baseball."
"Hmm," Slaughter muttered again. "Do you
think you can explain this desire?"
"Well, you may think this odd," the worried
man said, "but I think the game is exciting."
"You haven't taken any hallucinatory drugs
lately, have you?" the doctor said.
"No, honestly, Doc. I'm as straight as John
Wayne," Durrant said. "Except I like baseball."
"You know this is an abberation from your
peer group," the doctor said. "You are deviating
from the norm."
"I understand that," Durrant admitted. "It's
Just that whenever Willie Mays is up at bat I en
vision him smacking a line drive right past the
left fielder."
"Tell me about your childhood," the psycho
analyst 'said. "Was it normal?"
"Well, I played Little League ball," Durrant
said, "and I enjoyed playing third base. I remem
ber charging a ground ball, scooping it up neatly
and arching it smoothly into the pitcher's head."
"Were you a good hitter?" the doctor queried.
"Well, I wasn't a home run hitter," the patient
said. "I do remember the first time I faced Tim
othy McGinnity. I thought I had the first pitch
nailed, but I swung and missed by a foot. The next
pitch came right at me. I ducked, but the umpire
called it a strike. I later learned that I was fooled
by my first curve."
"Aha!" exclaimed Slaughter. "A simple case
of projection. When you see Brooks Robinson stab
a line drive, you see yourself doing the same thing.
You identify with Roberto Clemente when he slaps
a curve ball down the right field line."
"Why, Doc," the grateful man said, "you're a
genius. Is there any cure?"
"I'm afraid there is only one I've ever heard
of," the doctor said. "That's to watch 25 consecu
tive games between the Philadelphia Phillies and
the San Diego Padres."
"Oh no, not that," Durrant said.
"Fortunately, they don't play that often."
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By MIKE RATHET
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK UP) The New York Mets made it
to the top last year, and the Houston Astros could do
it this year, setting up the first National League
pennant fight between the expansion franchises born
together in 1962.
While many still are not convinced about the
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Seen as AL Winners
By MIKE RATHET
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) The Baltimore
Orioles, who have the poser, and the
Oakland Athletics, who hope they have
added the power. figure to be the teams
to beat in the American League pennant
races that begin next week.
Each, however, likely will be faced
with different problems.
The Orioles, who do not seem to have
stitf competition facing them in AL East,
will h ave to overcome w hat ev e r
psychological scars were inflicted by los
ing to the New York Mets in the World
Series. The A's will have to overcome the
Minnesota Twins in AL West.
With the exception o f those t hree
teams—the Orioles, the A's and the
Twins—it looks from here as if the others
will have difficulty keeping within hailing
range. The entire order of finish should
look something like this: East—(l.)
Baltimore; (2.) Boston: (3.) Washington;
(4.) New York; (5.) Detroit: ( 6.)
Cleveland. West—(l.) Oakland: (? Min-
McLain Pitching to Brother
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP)—Denny McLain doesn't know
yet exactly what he'll do between now and July 1, the day
his suspension from baseball is lifted.
"I expect to get some club bookings, but don't have
anything set yet," said the sometime organist.
. _
"And I don't know who I'll be able to work out with.
I have no immediate plans on what to do to play baseball.
"It's my understanding that I cant be associated with
semipro ball so I'll just have to wait and see."
Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn announced in New
York Wednesday that the 26-year-old Detroit Tiger pitcher
would be suspended until July 1.
The reason Kuhn gave was Denny's association with
NBA Semifinals Tonight;
Hawks, Bucks Favored
By The Associated Press Baltimore in New York last
The Atlanta Hawks an d night, tied 2-2.
Milwaukee. Bucks, with The Lakers and Suns met in
three small steps already Phoenix, tied at 1-1.
behind them. can take that The Hawks, with Lou Hudson
final giant step into the and Joe Caldwell scoring and
division finals of the National Walt Bellamy and Bill Bridges
Basketball Association playoffs controlling the boards, have
by beating Chicago an d had little trouble against the
Philadelphia tonight. third place Bulls in three easy
The Hawks, with a 3-0 lead victories. Second pla c e
over Chicago in their Western Milwaukee has scored two
Division semifinal, can close straight victories over the
out the best-of-seven series in fourth place 76ers. including
Chicago. The Bucks, with a 3-1 Wednesday night's 11 8-1 11
lead over Philadelphia. can triumph despite Billy Cun
clinch their East set at the ningham's 50 points for the
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house in Madison.
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York Knicks, the East regular
season champion, and for the
Los Angeles Lakers, who
finished second in the West. I
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(s.) Chicago; (6.) Milwaukee.
The big battle most likely will develop
in AL West with the defending champion
Twins meeting the challenge of the A's.
The Twins, who won it under Billy
Mortin last year, will be trying to
duplicate that effort this year under Bill
Rigney and the adjustment required in
adapting to that change-over may have
been reflected in Minnesota's 0-9 record
at the beginning of spring training.
There is heavy artillery available, with
Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva, and
the pitching should have improved with
the addition of Luis Tiant to a staff that
includes Jim Kaat, Jim Perry and Dave
Boswell.
The A's, however, seem to have improv
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have the ability to overtake the Twins.
The addition of Don Mincher and Felipe
Alou should add even more dynamite to a
line-up that already includes a legitimate
super-slugger in Reggie Jackson.
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youthful forces may be the only edge
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As - NL Division Winners
tenders to the throne in the NL East may just have
too many of their own problems to deal with to play
a successful game of catch-up.
On the other hand, in the NL West, it very likely
appears that the race will be wide open, just as it
was last year, with the edge given to the Astros here
because of their pitching—the same commodity that
won it for the Mets last season.
Here's the way it looks at a glance:
needed to finish third in what figures to
be a three-team race with California and
Chicago. Milwaukee will bring up' the
rear.
In the Eastern sector, only a complete
turnabout can keep the Orioles from
another World Series engagement.
With Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and
Brooks Robinson swinging and Mike
Cuellar, Dave McNally and Jim Palmer
pitching the Orioles just could be as con
vincing winners as they were last year
when they finished 19 games ahead of
second-place Detroit.
The Tigers figure to fade this year,
without the suspended Denny McLain for
a ha If s eason, and the most likely
challenger is Boston, hoping to recapture
the spirit of 1967 under new manager Ed
die Kasko with a solid team led by Carl
Yastrzemski.
Another ye ar u nder Ted Williams
should lift the Senators into third place
despite i mprovements ma de by the
Yankees with the acquisition of first
baseman Danny Cater and outfielder
Curt Blefary.
The Tigers, are tagged to sink to fifth,
winding up ahead of only Cleveland.
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In the meantime, Denny will probably continue pitch
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was formerly a pitcher in the White Sox farm system until
an auto accident resulted in torn neck ligaments, and he
quit baseball and finished college.
Yesterday McLain, with the pressure of Kuhn's deci
sion passed, relaxed with a game of golf. He has been play
ing considerable golf lately, shooting in the mid-70s, and
he said his legs are therefore in good shape.
McLain will not be allowed to work out with the
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East-1, New York. 2, St. Louis. 3, Pittsburgh. 4, Chi
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West-1, Houston. 2, Cincinnati. 3, San Francisco.
4, Atlanta. 5, Los Angeles. 6, San Diego.
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aces of a strong pitching staff, are difficult to pick against,
despite the fact many still consider some sort of miracle
brought them through last year.
However, it was more than a miracle—it was talent,
and the prime weak spot seems to have been bolstered by
the acquisition of Joe Foy to play third base.
The Cubs, who folded last year after building a 9 1 / 2 -
game lead in mid-August, will have to carry that traumatic
experience with them as well as a pitching shortage behind
Ferguson Jenkins, Ken Holtzman and Bill Hands. They
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Expectations were that the Cardinals would be a sig
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Carlton and Nelson Ernes. But the illness of Mike Shan
non, the hard-hitting third baseman, may slow them down.
The Pirates have been getting some support because of
the threat of heavy-shelling by Willie Stargell and Roberto
Clemente and the pitching of Bob Veale, Bob Moose, Dock
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