Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site noscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!noscvax!douglas From: douglas@noscvax.UUCP (Douglas S. Dickerson) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Walt Terrell Message-ID: <760@noscvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 19:51:37 EST Article-I.D.: noscvax.760 Posted: Wed Jan 9 19:51:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 08:04:44 EST References: <1087@aecom.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center Lines: 20 I couldn't agree more on the mental aspects of baseball, which is one reason I was so dismayed to hear that both Roger Craig and Gates Brown are not returning to the Tigers. Besides teaching the split-fingered fastball, Craig exerted a fatherly, steadying influence on the mood swings of immature Jack Morris or the paranoid fantasies of Juan Berenguer. (For the interested, see "Inside Pitch", Roger Craig's diary on the Tiger's 1984 season.) Also, Alan Trammell and other Tigers have credited their emergence as batters to the unorthodox hitting method taught by Gates Brown. Furthermore, ballplayers (like the rest of us) can remain distracted for long periods for seemingly unprofessional reasons. Quiet Larry Herndon's subpar year in '84 (.280, 7HR, 43RBI vs. .302 20HR, 92RBI in '83 and .292, 23HR, 88RBI in '82) has been blamed on loneliness caused by the absence (ala free-agency) of his good buddy Enos Cabell. Now that Kirk Gibson has finally actualized a portion of his storied potential, I'm fearful the absence (ala free-agency) of his partner-in-crime Dave Rozema will have a similar effect on Gibson's performance. -- Doug Dickerson UUCP !sdcsvax!noscvax!douglas MILNET douglas@nosc