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Schureck, the Schureck Baseball Report. Ready for a new stadium? Five stadium architects are represented. Included on their resumes are Buffalo's Pilot Field, Iowa's Sec Taylor Stadium, Oriole Park at Camden Yards and the conversion of Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium for baseball. The FBI yes, the G-men would like to help your team arrange for "bat day," using bats that include a drug-avoidance message. There had been concern that the nippy weather and the location of the Convention Center two blocks away from the headquarters hotel, the Gait House, might limit crowds.

That was quickly dispelled when conventioneers streamed through the doors. Baseball business is good in By GEORGE RORRER Staff Writer Say you're general manager of a baseball team and you want to entertain your crowd between innings. Who you gonna call? This weekend you could walk around Commonwealth Convention Center and take your choice. There's The Famous Chicken, of course. Or Morganna, the Kissing Bandit.

Or the California Diamonds all-girl softball team. Or a Blues Brothers act from LaCrosse, Wis. Or Allison Bly, the Dynamite Lady, who settles into a coffin at second base and blows herself up. Or maybe you'd take a chance with the new bird on the block, Louisville Redbirds mascot Billy Bird, and his two henchmen. They're all part of the Baseball Trade' Show, which is part of the 1992 Winter Meetings.

Open only to conventioneers, it will run through Tuesday at 2 p.m. Louisvillians are a big part of the show; starting with a big Hillerich Bradsby Louisville Slugger display directly inside the entrance. "It's the first time in my career I've been able to do a trade show and stay at home," said sales representative Chuck Schupp. Billy Bird, recent Bellarmine College graduate Dominic Latkovski, is making a bid for a bigger perch in the entertainment business after working at Redbirds games for three seasons. Latkovski, his brother Brennan and Mike Hamburg booked a booth and played a six-minute videotape of their antics over and over and over.

"I think we can make this work," Dominic Latkovski said. "We feel we can put on as good a show as anyone, and we're inexpensive. We've already had a lot of interest. It's a matter of getting out and doing our act." Louisville Manufacturing which makes caps, T-shirts and other items for special events such as the Kentucky Derby, is testing the water in the baseball market. In the second year of joint major league-minor league marketing of logo-bearing clothing and other items, the field is mushrooming.

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"Marge isn't going to change," said sales manager Jim Linduff. "She's a crusty old lady and has been that way all her life. She has been an embarrassment. But she doesn't deserve this. The other owners should make her put some minority programs in her organization." Said Cunningham: "A great American patriot is being Welcome to the Schott Watch.

You might think there would be widespread calls in Cincinnati for Schott's removal as owner. If so, you would be wrong. A TV station reported that 80 percent of the phone calls it had received backed her. Dozens of callers to the Reds' switchboard who support Schott have been advised to contact Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig, head of the executive council. The last 14,500 tickets for opening day went on sale Tuesday and sold out in 65 minutes.

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Joe asked how Schott can be told to sell her shares while baseball provides second and third chances for drug offenders. Brad, who wants to talk about hockey, closes by saying, "Marge should hang in there." But Cunningham's coup of the night came with one call. It was Marge. From Cincinnati. "I don't think the good blacks like this," Schott said of the controversy.

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