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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1994 B3 Baseball Hall of Fame inductions feature a wide array of emotions AA Its lit A-- HOT SPOT: Flames engulf the car and pit of Jos Ver-stappen after a fuel coupling apparently came loose. Ver-stappen and five crew members were treated for minor burns. Associated Press Berger survives messy start to win money we lose, the more I feel I have to get out of the deal as a return on my investment," Reinsdorf said. "Right now I don't need anything. Right now I'd be willing to sign for the same system." Reinsdorf said small-market teams can't live with the current system where the average salary is $1.2 million.

He claimed 19 teams will lose money from operations this season. Giants join AIDS fight With looped red ribbons on their uniforms and a pregame ceremony honoring the dead, the San Francisco Giants became the nation's first professional team to raise funds to fight AIDS. Sunday's game with visiting Colorado was billed as "Until There's A Cure Day" and the Giants will donate part of their gate receipts for treatment and research into the deadly disease. Peter Magowan, team president and managing general partner, said the Giants embraced the issue because of a "responsibility to the community." The Giants donated $1 from evV ery ticket sold to San Francisco Bay area non-profit organizations. Notes The Houston Astros, looking to improve their struggling offense, obtained outfielder Milt Thompson from Philadelphia in exchange for reliever Tom Edens The Montreal Expos placed left-handed starter Jeff Fassero on the 15-day disabled list with a strained muscle below his right shoulder blade and recalled left-hander Gabe White from Triple-A Ottawa.

the most riveting part of the ceremony. The feisty Durocher, whose teams won 2,008 games, seventh on the all-time list, died in 1991 at age 86. He once said he didn't want to go in the Hall of Fame after he died. If there was bitterness when he said that, it was forgotten Sunday when his son accepted the plaque. "His last years were spent hoping he would get a call from the Hall of Fame," Chris Durocher said, sobbing and barely audible at times.

"At first, I thought what a shame it was that he could not have lived to receive it himself. But now I know, as I stand here, that my father stands with us here today. I guess he got time off for good behavior." It didn't take a hoarse Rizzuto long to change the somber mood. The 1950 MVP, who played on nine American League pennant-winners in 13 seasons, was in top form. He went from Durocher I'd pop up, he'd say, 'Home run in "an elevator to the Navy got seasick every day.

I gave away my ammunition and later found out I could have been courtmartialed. They put me off the ship. It was in New Guinea. I thought I was going to see a lot of Also inducted were Wendell Smith, a writer for the Chicago American and Chicago Sun-Times, and New York Mets broadcaster Bob Murphy. Status quo suits Reinsdorf Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, claiming he is a dove who would become a hawk if players strike, said he is willing to keep the current collective bargaining agreement.

"The longer it goes, the more Prix. That victory was in a McLaren. Berger completed the 45 laps around the 4.21-mile track in 1 hour, 22 minutes and 37.272 seconds. He averaged 137.635 mph. The victory was the 104th for Ferrari, tying it with McLaren for the lead among Formula One constructors.

The race run in 94-degree weather ended with only eight of the 26 starters still on the track. Nearly half the field was eliminated before the first turn. Hakkinen already is under probation for his driving at the British Grand Prix. FIA stewards viewed videos and talked to drivers involved in the accident, and determined that Hakkinen "caused an avoidable collision and forced drivers off the track." Associated Press Steve Carlton and Phil Rizzuto entered baseball's Hall of Fame Sunday completely in character Carlton displaying little emotion in a short speech and Rizzuto bringing down the house with a rambling half-hour soliloquy. Carlton, stung by a magazine article this year that portrayed him as anti-Semitic, had a chance to break the silence that marked half his 24-year career and tell the base BASEBALL ball world what he really felt.

He chose instead to reveal little of himself. It was an altogether appropriate setting to honor one of baseball's great recluses. The makeshift podium from which Carlton spoke was set on a lawn on the outskirts of tiny Cooperstown, N.Y., the deserted Catskill Mountain foothills in the background. Carlton, 49, lives on a 400-acre spread in the Colorado Rockies. In one of his few personal recollections, he spoke of a White House visit.

"I remember we were in the White House after we won the World Series in 1980," Carlton said. "The next day there was a picture in the papers and I was listed as an unnamed Secret Service man." Carlton, who struck out 4,136 batters, second only to Nolan Ryan, is the only pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards. He won 329 games, second among lefthanders only to Warren Spahn. Carlton was followed by Leo Durocher's ex-wife, actress Lar-aine Day, and their son, Chris, in Redbirds slide From Wire and Special Reports Louisville, Ky. Jeff Richardson singled In the go-ahead run as the Louisville Redbirds beat the Indianapolis Indians 5-2 Sunday in the American Association.

The score was tied 2-2 in the fifth Inning when Richardson's hit scored Steve Fanning, who had singled and been sacrificed to second. The Redbirds added two runs in the sixth. Skeets Thomas, who led Louisville with two hits, tripled and scored on Darrel Deak's double. Erik Pappas' sacrifice fly later scored Deak. Frank Cimorelli (5-2) pitched 2 innings of shutout relief for the Redbirds, coming on in the fifth to walk three and strike out two.

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The Tribe's first run scored on William Pennyfeather's third-inning double. The Indians and Redbirds continue their series at 6:15 tonight FM, WNDE-1260 AM). Rob Dibble will continue his injury rehabilitation by throwing the first inning for the Tribe. Rob Wishnevski starts for Louisville. champion Ayrton Senna was killed three months ago as was Austrian Roland Ratzenberger at the Grand Prix of San Marino.

The status of the Italian Grand Prix, scheduled later this year, is unknown because of alleged saf-tey problems. Berger's victory was the first for Ferrari since Sept. 30, 1990, at the Spanish Grand Prix, ending the longest winless drought for the famous Italian automaker in its Formula One history. Previously, Ferrari had not gone more than a season without winning a race. The Austrian, going from the pole, led throughout.

He finished 54.779 seconds ahead of the Li-gier Renault of Frenchman Olivier Panis. It was the ninth Formula One victory for Berger and his first since the 1992 Austrian Grand rest of NASCAR to notice how nicely Waltrip's public relations approach was working, especially among sponsors. Gradually, drivers started to change, shedding their reluctance to mingle with big-money corporate types as well as the fans who buy a sponsor's products. "The demands on drivers have grown. They have to understand other business ventures," Hunter said.

"It's a matter of adapt and adjust, or lose out to another guy who has only equal driving ability but can stand up and do a television commercial." Andy Hall, director of public relations for NASCAR, recalled that Ned Jarrett was one of the first stock car drivers to take a Dale Carnegie course in the early 1960s. "Now it's common practice for sponsors to send their drivers to charm school, so to speak," Hall said. Hall points out there is an increasing number of college-educated drivers on the Winston Cup circuit, men such as Joe Neme-chek and Geoff and Brett Bodine. Many drivers Rusty Wallace, Kyle Petty, Mark Martin, Ken Schrader, Ricky Rudd and Ernie Irvan among them enjoy playing roles as spokesmen for their sport. "It's been sponsor-driven and From the halfway point, it was strictly between Boesel and Unser.

Mario was KO'd while running second, Gordon's exciting day (he survived a blown right-front tire and then a spin after battling back to third) was over and Fitti-paldi's Ilmor expired while he sat third. Boesel had smoked Unser on a Lap 190 restart and was keeping the two-time Indy 500 winner a couple of seconds back when his Duracell '94 LolaFord lost power 25 laps from what could have been Dick Simon's and the 36-year-old Brazilian's first triumph. "We led most of the race. When Little Al put on pressure we responded and I thought we had a good chance. I thought it was in the bag," said Boesel.

With Boesel on the sidelines, Unser had more than a lap advantage on Goodyear and the current PPGIndyCar point leader looked like he would really open up some distance on his teammate, Fitti-paldi. "I was really happy when Raul By George Boehmer ASSOCIATED PRESS Hockenheim, Germany Gerhard Berger gave Ferrari its first Formula One victory in nearly four years, winning a German Grand Prix marred Sunday by a pit fire and starting-line crashes that knocked out 11 cars. International Automobile Federation stewards placed the blame for the chain-reaction crashes on the first lap on McLaren Peugeot driver Mika Hakkinen of Finland. He was suspended for one race. Nobody was seriously hurt in the crashes or the fire, which occurred in the Benetton pit of Dutchman Jos Verstappen after the 15th lap.

They were the latest incidents involving safety on the circuit this year. Three-time Formula One SPONSORS Continued from Page 1 sense about him, and he set the standard in paying back the fans. Petty's footprints on the sport are much like those of A.J. Foyt and the Unser family at Indy. They sort of established the ground rules, not Just on the track but off." Yet, beyond Petty, few other top-notch NASCAR drivers from that time wanted anything to do with the promotions side.

Then along came Waltrip, glib and willing. He took Petty's lead and ran with it. "I quickly learned that I could use the press to my advantage," Waltrip said. "Most of the other guys at the time didn't like talking to the press. "I saw an opening.

The press would take my message to the fans. Some loved what I had to say, and others hated it." Before long, Waltrip was backing up his off-the-track words with behind-the-wheel deeds. He won the Winston 500 at Talladega, in 1977 and his career took off. He currently owns 84 Winston Cup victories, tied for third with Bobby Allison on the all-time list. It also didn't take long for the GOODYEAR Continued from Page 1 feeling and great boost for this team." Goodyear has already announced he won't be back with Bernstein in '95, but he obviously feels more confident with engineer John Dick now on board.

He was running fourth, on the lead lap, when he ran out of fuel. "We ran out coming out of Turn 2 it coughed and died it was the worst feeling. The telemetry was reading wrong because it said we had enough to go a couple more laps. We coasted in and it was a lo-o-o-o-ng coast." That put Goodyear a lap down and that's where he was when fate intervened. Mansell, the polesitter, had run away for the first 26 laps in the KmartTexaco '94 LolaFord before a jammed throttle ended his day.

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Indeed, the sport's characters are hardly recognizable relative to the early days, which were made famous in a story by author Tom Wolfe about former driver and current car owner Junior Johnson. "The legend of Junior Johnson!" Wolfe wrote. "In this legend, here is a country boy. Junior Johnson, who learns to drive by running whiskey for his father one of the biggest copper-still operators of all-time, up in Ingle Hollow, near North Wilkesboro, in northwestern North Carolina Waltrip's background born in Owensboro, where he learned his trade by racing go-karts is tame by comparison. But the driver and owner of the Western Auto Chevrolet has had no less of an impact on a NASCAR circuit that now thrives on sponsors' backing.

"I conduct the rookie meetings at most of our races, and I tell the guys their performance on Monday is just as important as their performance on Sunday," Waltrip said. "Their jobs don't end at the checkered flag. They've got to go out there all week and do whatever they are called upon to do by the sponsors, the media or the race tracks." blew up, even though it was a shame for the fans, and then 1 was just cruising," said Unser, who owns a 29-point lead heading to Mid-Ohio in two weeks. Luyendyk started 26th out of 28 in the Indy Regency Racing '94 LolaIlmor and didn't try to underplay what had transpired. "We made our car better this morning in warmup and we ran pretty decent today, but we wouldn't be sitting up here without all the things that happened," said the 1990 Indy winner.

Dominic Dobson started ninth and wound up third, two laps down, in the PacWest '94 Lola-Ford. "We're a new team and this gives us some encouragement," he said. But Teo Fabi, who ran fourth in the Pennzoil '94 ReynardIlmor-D despite being four laps down, may have captured the spirit of this event. "It's a good thing I finished fourth, Fabi said. "1 would have been embarrassed to go to the press conference." future and PacWest wants to grow together.

MARK SMITH: If Craftsman doesn't mind this kid tooling around, he'll find another home (besides Walker) in '95. PAUL TRACY: He's got an option year with Penske but nobody seems to know whose option it is. Ganassi and Haas would both love P.T., but "The Captain" not likely to let him go to a formidable competitor. Barry Green's team also a possibility if Jacques Villeneuve leaves. JIMMY VASSER: Another good Yank, he's already locked up with Jim Hayhoe.

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