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C2 wwwtennessean.com THE TENNESSEAN Saturday, Jury 13, 2002 5C SPORTS: BASEBALL 6 1 Sounds Redbirds Next game: at Memphis Where Today, 6:05 p.m. "Sign, sign, sign. They would do it for hours at a time until the man was so tired he couldn't write anymore. He pushed and pushed his dad to do all this stuff and of course it was for money. The ultimate thing was money" Kay Munday, Ted Williams' manager from 1989-95 Game at a glance Winning pitcher.

Tony Mc-Knight (8-7). Big slick: Humberto Cota, 2-for-5, 2-run HR, RBI double. How the Sounds won: The Sounds scored five runs in the first inning, highlighted by back-to-back home runs by Cota and Armando Romero. Tony Mc-Knight allowed only three hits in eight innings. What they said: McKnight -They played great defense behind me.

I just tried to keep the ball in the park, which has been tough for me lately." Manager Marty Brown "Tony got some run support early, which really helped. McKnight was really aggressive in the zone, he went right after them." Today's game: Sounds LHP Kevin Tolar (2-0, 2.87) vs. Memphis RHP Nerio Rodriguez (NR). Labor decision delayed Union agrees to idea of a worldwide draft Tenmssean News Services Baseball's labor talks resumed yesterday with players and owners giving the arbitrator in the contraction grievance an extension until next month. In the first bargaining session since June 27, the union agreed to management's concept of a worldwide draft.

Arbitrator Shyam Das heard 20 days of testimony from nine witnesses from Dec. 4 to April 10 and had told the sides he would try to issue a decision by Monday. At Das' request, players and owners agreed to give him until Aug. Because of the delay, the sides pushed back until Aug. 15 the deadline for owners to give the union a tentative schedule for the 2003 seasoa They already had pushed back that deadline from July 1 to Aug.

Players claim the Nov. 6 vote to eliminate two teams violated their labor contract Management, blocked from contraction by the LA i i I i ''J 7 4'' Ml jM U4 I i "His son tried to be there every morning. He would call me and say, 'Is Dad out of bed yet? We're going to do some signing. Get him Jack Gard, health aide to Ted Williams from 1998-2000, on son John Henry Williams SOUNDS 6, REDBIRDS 1 Nashvillt ab bi Brown cf Pndelt Post 2b Cotac Romero 1b Gilbert 3b Garcia 3C 4 0 1 5 0 2 5 2 3 5 1 2 5 1 1 4 1 1 5 1 1 4 0 2 ab hbi ss4 1 2 0 4 0 11 3 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 1 3 1 Memphis NichoBn Moms 2b Nunnalryrf Frank lb Ortega If Riggs3b Taguotvcf Anorplosc Jacomep Heisrmn Wattph Smscnfiep Totals FILE McKrughtp 4 0 1 Service 0 0 0 The late Ted Williams, right, and his son, John Henry Williams, left, are shown during the opening ceremony for the Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston, on Dec. 15, 1995.

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Springs (Rockies! 35 Eastern Division New Orleans lAstros! 50 Oklahoma (Rangers) 47 Mem0 (Cardinals) 45 10 X'l GB 2'4 3' 4 Nashville (Pratesl PACIFIC CONFERENCE Pet 559 Southern Division Las vegas(lX)dgers) 52 Tucson (Diarnondbacksi 44 Sacramento (Athleticsl 38 45 494 53 416 Fresno Giants) two rings belonging to Ted Williams and a memorabilia dealer who tried to broker a deal on them The roommate, Rodney Nichols, claimed the rings had been stored at his parents' house for six years but the younger Williams never retrieved them despite pleas to do so. Nichols was convicted of transporting stolen property. The memorabilia dealer, Phil Castinetti, was acquitted. Court records and the actions of the younger Williams show that he attempted for years to make money on the legacy of his father. His Internet company.

Hitter filed for bankruptcy in 2000 after losing $65300 in 1997, $858,630 in 1998 and $25 million in 1999, according to court records filed in US. Bankruptcy Court in Orlando. A reorganization plan was approved last December. Over the past several years, Hitter and another company, Green Diamond Sports Inc, have been subjected to liens from the IRS totaling $233,000. Last year, a company sued John Henry for failing to pay more than $122500 for leased equipment.

In addition, SunTrust Bank sued him this year for defaulting on a $570,000 loan for Hitter and failing to pay back more than $9,000 in credit card debt. Ted Williams lost several hundred thousand dollars in an investment account he put up as collateral for the loan when the bank liquidated it, according to court records. 13 15 GB 1 3V4 5 call me and say, 'Is Dad out of bed yet? We're going to do some signing. Get him The signing of memorabilia was a constant activity, Munday said. "Sign, sign, sign.

They would do it for hours at a time until the man was so tired he couldn't write anymore," she said. "He pushed and pushed his dad to do all this stuff and of course it was for money. The ultimate thing was money." There were times that Ted Williams got angry and refused to sign anything. "John Henry would storm out of the house," said Gard, who was fired by John Henry after the son accused him of trying to sell Ted Williams memorabilia. Gard said John Henry installed video cameras inside the house to make sure employees didn't take memorabilia Four years ago, an employee reported John Henry to the Department of Children Families over the way he was treating his father, but investigators found nothing wrong.

Neither John Henry nor his attorney returned calls seeking comment At one point, John Henry sued Claudia Williams for selling autographed bats Ted Williams had given her. Ferrell said her half brother cut her off from her father last year after she wouldn't go along with the cryonics plan. Another time, John Henry called in the FBI to investigate a former college roommate who had sold Pet .544 .533 .506 37 49 46 45 45 Western Division Edmonton (Twins) Tacoma (Manners) Cakjarv (Martins) Portland (Parjresl Tenmssean News Serviees HERNANDO, Fla. In the last years of his life, Ted Williams grew to depend on his only son as strokes and heart disease took their toll on one of the greatest sluggers baseball has ever known. John Henry Williams took control.

He made business decisions for his father and kept him on a steady schedule of signing baseball memorabilia, a practice those who knew the ailing star said was motivated by money. The son also decided his father's body should be sent to an Arizona lab to be frozen, a move that set off a fight with his half sister over what to do with the body of the last man to bat .400. Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, 54, says her father wanted to be cremated and have his ashes scattered over the Florida Keys. She says her 33-year-old half brother intends to somehow make a profit by putting their father in the deep freeze. A death certificate filed yesterday, confirms that Williams' body was moved out of state.

Attorneys for Ted Williams' estate will ask a Florida court to decide the matter when they file the will, as early as Monday. John Henry's relationship with his father was complex at times loving, at other times tense, according to interviews with for mer Williams employees. It was a relationship that started with Ted Williams having little presence in his son's childhood and ended with his son being in almost total control of his father's life. "He took over Ted's business affairs, his household affairs and he just became the boss," said Kay Munday, who managed Williams' household from 1989 to 1995. "I would ask Ted something and he would say, 'Let John Henry handle and I would have to go through John Henry." John Henry saw little of his father after his parents divorced when he was 4.

He grew up in Massachusetts and Vermont and attended school in Maine. He became part of Ted Williams' life in the early 1990s after the slugger's companion, Louise Kauffman, died. "I think, maybe, when he grew up, and they got together, Ted was trying to make up for the lost years," Munday said. "Before that, Louise was kind of an intermediary between John Henry and Ted." Once he was in control of his father's life, John Henry kept Ted Williams busy autographing baseballs, bats and shirts, said Jack Gard, who worked as a health aide to Ted Williams between 1998 and 2000. "His son tried to be there every morning," Gard said.

"He would Pa schedule Thursday results New Orleans 10. Oklahoma 0 Iowa 8. San Lake 5 Omaha 1 1 Colorado Springs 1 Nashvfe9.Memphis2 Tucson 4, Las Vegas 2 Calgary 7, Edmonton 6 (10) Tacoma 3. Portland 2 HOI Fresno 3. Sacramento 2 (10) Yesterday games Nashville 6, Memphis 1 Calgary at Edmonton Las Vegas at Tucson Oklahoma at New Orleans Omaha at Colorado Sprngs Portland at Tacoma Sacramento at Fresno Salt Lake at Iowa Saturday Games Calgary at Edmonton Las Vegas at Tucson Nashville at Memphis Oklahoma at New Orleans Omaha at Colorado Springs Sacramento at Fresno Salt Lake at Iowa Tacoma at Portland Minnesota courts, wants to know if it has the right to eliminate teams for the 2003 seasoa In yesterday's negotiating session, the union said for the first time it would agree to a single worldwide draft of amateur players, proposing that it be 16 rounds.

In the past, the union advocated a separate draft of players from outside the United States and Canada "By moving to a single draft, we recognize that we're going to have to work through issues like when international players are going to be eligible," union lawyer Michael Weiner said. "Our proposal is conditioned on working through it" The sides did not discuss the central issues of disagreement: Management's proposal to increase the amount of locally shared revenue among clubs from 20 to 50, and its plan to have a 50 luxury tax on the portions of payrolls above $98 millioa Management lawyers are awaiting the union's response. "It's really their timetable, not ours," said Ralph Manfred, the top lawyer for management. Mans put Lawton on DL Outfielder Matt Lawton, acquired by the Cleveland Indians in the trade of Roberto Alomar to the New York Mets last winter, was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday with a strained left calf muscle. Lawton has played with a strained right shoulder since mid-ApriL He was batting 242 with 10 homers and 37 RBL Clemens leaves game with injury: Roger Clemens left the New York Yankees' game against the Cleveland Indians before the sixth inning last night with an apparent groin injury.

The Yankees have listed Clemens as day-to-day. Padres make moves: The San Diego Padres welcomed back slugger Phil Nevin yesterday. Nevin missed 35 games because of a broken left arm. An All-Star in 2001, he hit 293 with five homers and 21 RBI in 39 games. The team also traded infielder D'Angelo Jimenez to the Chicago White Sox for two minor leaguers.

Jimenez, 24, was hitting 240 with three homers and 33 RBI with the Padres. The Twins traded right fielder Brian Buchanan to the Padres and recalled outfielder Michael Cud-dyer from Triple-A Edmontoa In exchange for Buchanan, the Padres gave up minor league shortstop Jason Bartlett, who will report to the Fort Myers Miracle of the Class-A Florida State League. PAmfco traded to Reds: The Cincinnati Reds acquired right-handed pitcher Jeff D'Amico from the Cleveland Indians yesterday in exchange for a player to be named later. D'Amico was 4-7 with a 4J3 ERA at Triple-A Buffalo. He will report to Triple-A Louisville.

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