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2S THKDteMOlNKS REGISTER Oct. 2U, mi AP Photo More NFL teams end Mrs. Simmons has a suggestion for TV: watch game, not wives if ws A BEAR IS HUGGED Chicago Bears quarterback Vinoe Evans fits nicely into the grasp of Buffalo Bills defensive end Darryl Irving in Monday night's National Football League players' all-star game. Irving and his American Conference West squad beat the NFC West. Elf owners withdraw offer; more games off they don't understand that.

It's like information your mother gave you as a kid. You waved and said, 'Uh Maryanne Simmons is in her 13th year as a baseball wife. She has adjusted to being traded, to the culture shock that is Milwaukee and to a new group in the waiting room. "It's the best group of wives I've ever been with," she said. "It is the first winning team I've ever been on.

Winning takes care of lots of things. "Remember when the Pirates were in the playoffs against the Reds? The Pittsburgh wives had that slogan, 'We are Johnny Bench said, 'When you're winning you are family and when you're losing you're a house You never really get used to losing." MARYANNE SIMMONS has had a good World Series so far. NBC-TV keeps the "honey" shots to a minimum, unlike ABC's fawning, repetitive closeups. "We have a different philosophy," NBC producer Mike Weisman explained. "We don't stand next to a wife and say, 'You're "If we take the shot, it's from a couple of rows away, and it's meaningful.

We didn't use it in the third game and maybe twice in the fourth game. "Once because Robin Yount's wife is very pregnant and they're keeping an ambulance ready under the stands to take her to the hospital if necessary. That's news. "And the other time was Gorman Thomas' wife when he came up to bat in the seventh inning stuck in a slump. And when he got the hit, we went back to her and she was kissing some man.

Gorman's probably mad about that." Not likely. But, to its credit, NBC did build a pre-game segment around Maryanne's newsletter. So now more people, in and out of the game, are aware of it It is an idea whose time has been locked too long in baseball's primitive structure. WHAT DO you get for your $40? Certainly not recipes for tuna casserole or makeup tips. II you want that, you can read Family Circle.

The current issue the second one to be published contains a lovely essay by Rosemary Lonborg on life after baseball. Jim Lonborg is in dental school, the kids are doing great and everyone is looking forward to new adventures. There are some fascinating if unidentified portraits of women at ballparks. Excerpts of replies to a survey. Some bitter, some sweet.

But the whole thing seems too arty, too sophisticated, resembling a college literary magazine published by sophomores for sophomores. Talented sophomores. It would be nice if someone could complement Maryanne Simmons' enthusiasm, dedication and graphic skills with some good old-fashioned editorial judgment. There must be dozens of baseball wives out there with questions they want answered, with answers they want questioned. Maryanne Simmons can offer them a well-designed, worth-saving forum for their concerns.

Meanwhile, NBC will give you an occasional peek at a wife, choosing a 1WJ KnWrt-RMftr Newspapers ST. LOUIS, MO. Maryanne Simmons doesn't want a television camera zooming in on her anxious face when her husband comes to bat with the bases jammed. Not because her mascara might be smeared, because she doesn't wear mascara to the ballpark. Maryanne Simmons just doesn't want 40 million Americans peeping through television's keyhole at how she reacts, whether Ted Simmons raps a double into the right-field corner or pops up.

Maryanne Simmons does not want her life defined by what Ted Simmons does with a 35-ounce bat in a baseball game, even if it is a World Series game. "It's the National Enquirer svndrome carried over to network television," Maryanne Simmons said the other day. "It's totally inappropri ate. I don't see any point in putting a camera in front of a woman's face when she's emotionally upset. It's her husband's game.

The husbands' game is baseball. The wives' game is more than cheering or smiling or frowning or waving a pennant at the ballyard. Except for the October "honey" shots ABC-TV fawns over and NBC-TV uses sparingly, baseball wives are seldom seen and never heard. IT IS PART of the plantation mentality that still infests baseball, and Maryanne Simmons is trying to do something about that. "She feels," Ted Simmons said, "that whatever notoriety a person gets should be earned.

Baseball is my thing. Whatever success or failure she has with her newsletter is something she has earned." Maryanne's "newsletter" is called "The Waiting Room," a title derived from the often barren and musty area where family and friends wait for ballplayers after ballgames. She has a degree in fine arts and it shows in the handsome publication. slick paper, neat layouts, meaningful photographs of women she does not identify. Thus the women in the pictures become Everywife, rather than being captioned reflections of Mike Schmidt or Ken Forsch or Joey Amalfitano.

Subscriptions to the quarterly publication sell for $40 and she already has enough subscribers to pay the printing and mailing costs of a press run of 800. "I wrote a little guide for the St. Louis wives in 79 and '80," Maryanne said. "Martha Littell worked on it with me. "What prompted 'Waiting Room' was my being traded to Milwaukee.

And Martha to Kansas City. We realized that, instead of provincial loyalties, this is part of a whole big world." SHE WANTED to get the wives' attention, which is why she didn't settle for lesser quality. She is out to raise consciousness, and feels you don't get displayed on the coffee table with mimeographed sheets stapled together. 'I don't think baseball wives are any different than any other group of wives," she said. "One of the unique problems is the attention paid by the public.

Both good and bad attention. "Trying to keep them normal, trying to keep them on an even keel, and yourself on an even keel, that's a concern. "When you first start out you don't think ahead. You don't think there's even an end to this. Ten years ago, careers lasted three years.

"Tell a 20-year-old her husband will be unemployed ia three years, BASEBALL iSGOREBOARDL WORLD SERIES (Iowa times) GAME ONE Mllwauke 200 112 004 10 17 0 St. Louis 000 000 000 0 3 1 Caldwell and Simmons: Forsch, Kaat (6). I aPoint fS Lahti (91 and Porter. Caldwell (1-0). Forsch (0-1).

HR Milwaukee: Simmons (1). GAME TWO Milwaukee 012 010 000 4 10 1 St. Loult 002 002 Oil 5 8 0 Sutton. McClure (7). Ladd (8) and Simmnns Sturw Kaat (5V Bair (5).

Sutter (7) Porter. Sutter (1-0). McClure (0-1). HR Milwaukee: Simmons (2). GAME THREE aaa Sl.

LUUI1 vw wjv Milwaukee 000 000 020 2 5 3 Anduiar. Kaat (7). Bair (7). Sutter (7) and Vuckovich. McClure (9) and Simmons.

-W Anduiar (1-0) Vuckovich (0-1). HR St. Louis: McGee, 2 (2); Milwaukee: Cooper I'd). GAME FOUR Louis 130 001 000 5 8 1 Milwaukee 000 010 60x 7 10 2 LaPoint. Bair (7).

Kaat (7). Lahti (7) and Porter: Haas, Slaton (6). McClure (8) and Simmons. Slaton (1-0). Bair (0-1).

GAME FIVE St. Louis 001 000 102 4 15 2 Milwaukee 101 010 12x 6 11 1 Forsch, Sutter (8) and Porter; Caldwell, McClure (9) and Simmons. VV Caldwell (2-0) Forsch (0-2). HR Milwaukee: Yount(l). TODAY'S GAME 7:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Sutton 0-0) at St. Louis (Stuper 0 0) WEDNESDAY'S GAME 7:20 p.m. Milwaukee at St. Louis (if nccissarv) GAME SIX INNING-BY-INNING Starting Lineups MILWAUKEE BREWERS Paul Molilor, 3b; RoBin Yount, ss; Cecil Coooer, Ted Simmons, Ben Ogiivie, tf, Gorman Thomas, cl; Don Money, dh; Charlie Moore, rl; Jim Gantner, 2b; Don Sullon, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Lonnie Smilh, Ken Oberkfell, 3b, Keith Hernandei, lb; George Hendrick, rt; Darreli Porter, Dane lorg, dh, Willie McGee, cl; Tommv Herr, 2D, Oziie Smith, ss; John Stuper, p.

UMPIRES Jim Evans (A.L.I, home plate, Lee Wever (N L.I, lirst base; BiH Haller (A.L second base; John Kibler INL.I, third base; Dave Phillips (A.L.). left field; Satch Davidson (N i. right field. First Inning (VlUHTUf IIPV JIUMCI 111 1 flll.ll UUDIUC IU1 a LKJI1, -binen oooDeo up to vine smun on a 1-1 pncn. Touni unca ihhr jiuvcf, enuuiy sn cok vi --rwung sateiv in consecutive ai-oaiv cooper -tn I nnm Smith, who maiw ln cairn wir on toot on the warning track.

rvns, no hiti, no errors, none left on. ST. LOUIS Lonnie Smith took Sutton's first pitch high tor a ball, then took a called third strike on a 3-2 pitch, Oberkfell filed to Moore. Hernandez grounded out, Cooper to Sutton covering. no runs, no nm, no errors, none ten on.

Second Inning MILWAUKEE Simmons walked, becoming the flame's first baserunner Ogiivie singled to center, Simmons at econd Thomas flied to McGee Money 'grounded into a double play, Oberkfell to Herr lo No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on. ST. LOUIS Hendrick struck out, swinging. Porter grounded to Gantner. (org doubled into the left field corner, the ball glancing oft the glove of Ogiivie, who made a long run into the corner.

McGee reached first base when his grounder skipped between Yount's legs and into left field for an error, allowing lorg to score lo give the Cardinals a 1-0 lead (II was Milwaukee's eighth error of the Series). Herr doubted off the right field wad, scoring McGee to give the Cardinals a 7-0 lead (The relay throw to the plate appeared to be in time, but Simmons could not hang on to it as McGee slid in). Oizie Smith grounded to Yount. Two runs, two hits, one error, one Mt on. Third Inning MILWAUKEE Moore singled to left.

Gantner struck out, swinging. Motitor grounded info a double play, Herr to Ozzie Smith to Hernandez. No runs, one hit, no errors, none left on. ST. LOUft Lonnie Smith reached first when Gantner bobbied his grounder, then threw late to Sutton covering (Gantner fourth error of the Series, and the ninth for the Brewers).

With Oberkfell batting, Lonnie Smith sluie second. Oberkfell popped up to Gantner Hernandez grounded lo Gantner, Lonnie Smtt ntotfing to third. Wiln Hendrick batting, lonrie Smith a I tempted to steal home and was thrown out. Suit on to Simmons. No runs, no hits, one error, none left on.

Fourth Inning MILWAUKEE Yount flied to Hendrick. Cooper popped up to Ozne Smith. Simmons lined to Hendiick. No runs, no nits, no errors, none left on. ST.

LOUIS Hendrick, resuming his time jt bat, looped a single to center. With Porter balling, home ptale umpire Evans called a baik on Suit on, sending Hendrick lo second (It was the ISlh balk in Series history, and the first since Baltimore's Scott McGregor had been charged with ore in I979t. Porter then belted a I-1 pitch over I he right-field wall tor a home run, giving the Cardinals a 4-0 lead lorg tashed a triple into the right field corner McGee bounced to Yount, lorg holding. Herr executed a perfect squeeze bunt and was thrown out, Sutton to Cooper, with lorg scoring to give the Cardinals a 5-0 lead. Oizie Smith grounded out, Cooper unasssisled Three runs, three hits, no errors, none left on.

Fifth Inning MILWAUKEE Ogiivie flied to McGee. Thomas struck out, swinging. Money grounded to Oberktell. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on. ST.

LOUIS The inning began in a heavy rain, Lonnie Smith looped a single iust inside the right-fieid line, stumbling coming around first but getting to the bag in time. Oberkfell grounded out, Sutton to Cooper, with Lonnie Smith going lo Hernandez blasted a 1-2 Pitch far over Ihe wall for a home run, giving the Cardinals 7-0 lead After Hernandez crossed the Plate, the field was covered because of the intense rain and the game was held up al 8:43 P.m. (Iowa lime). The game resumed at 9:09 rn. Jim Slaton replaced Sutton on the mound for Milwaukee.

Hendrick popped up lo Gantner. Porter flied to Ogiivie Two runs, two hits, no errors, none left on. Sixth Inning MILWAUKEE David Green went lo let I field lor the Cardinals, batting first. Moore lined lo Oizie Smith. Gantner flied lo Hendrick Molilor grounded to Oberklelt.

rum, no hits, no errors, nm left on. ST. LOUIS lorg doubled lo left-center. He advanced to third on a wild pilch bv Doc Medich and scored on McGee's single to right Herr singled lo left and both advanced on another wild pitch bv Medich. Ozzie Smith grounded out.

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Tirry Orndorff Advance Ticket en Sal VETIIANS AUDITORIUM OFFICE Prices: $5.00 $5.50 $6.00 workouts By LARRY DORMAN KntgM-Rktdtr NwuPn Players are scattering, interest is diminishing and more and more teams are pulling the plug on the practice sessions that began after the National Football League players' strike was called 29 days ago. Ten teams have stopped practicing in the past week, and others, such as Tampa Bay, soon may follow. Two teams, Minnesota and Philadelphia, never started workouts. If a breakthrough in the strike somehow occurred and games were resumed next Sunday, two teams San Diego and Miami would have a decided edge on the competition. Of the 28 teams in the league, the Chargers and Dolphins have organized the highest-caliber workouts and have had the highest attendance.

San Diego quarterback Dan Fouts, who was outspoken against the strike before it began, ironically has been the unifying force in the Chargers' workouts. He not only has participated in all practices three per week but has worked out with Chargers receivers on off-days, said linebacker David Lewis. At Dolphin practices 90 minutes each, three times a week attendance has not dipped below 30. Although quarterback Don Strock and wide receiver Nat Moore have led the practices, much of the credit for the team's persistence has been given to Coach Don Shula's indirect influence. A league directive prohibits coaches from organizing workouts.

But, said Dolphin player representative Jimmy Cefalo, "Coach Shula has always stressed the importance of teamwork and togetherness, and that has carried over. You never know. That might be an advantage for us when this is settled. Shula said he isn't sure about that, but "the longer this thing goes on, the more important it is for players to stay in shape. Obviously, I haven't had anything to do with the workouts.

It's something they're doing on their own." MANY TEAMS around the league, including three AFC East teams, are doing very little on their own. The New York Jets held just four workouts before disbanding. Players currently are taking aerobic dancing at the Syosset Raquetball Club. The New England Patriots managed two workouts before calling them off; in the second one, quarterback Steve Grogan was playing fullback during drills. The Baltimore Colts scheduled a workout 10 days after the strike was called, but only 19 players showed up.

There have been no additional practices, and Colts Coach Frank Kush said he was considering three-a-day practices when the strike is settled. In Dallas, where one might assume the influence of Tom Landry would carry over and keep the Cowboys working, the computer is down. Workouts have been disorganized and players have been scarce. Some have showed up in three-piece suits on their way to work somewhere else; only 10 players participated in the last practice. In laid-back Los Angeles, the Rams are fading while the Raiders are finished.

The Rams had only 14 players at their last don't practice unless I get paid," said tackle Dennis Harrah.) At the final Raider workout last week, players abandoned the football field for a pickup basketball game. The Kansas City Chiefs had been practicing at a soccer field during the first two weeks of the strike and attendance had been high. But defensive lineman Dean Prater stepped in a hole on the pitted field last week, tearing ligaments in his knee, and that was the end of the workouts. Now the Chiefs hold union meetings once a week and leave it at that. THE SUPER BOWL champion San Francisco 49ers have been dropping out of daily workouts in threes and fours.

When 21 people showed up at this week's workout, player representative Keith Fahnhorst grumbled, "I expected a lot more guys. This is disappointing." But it wasn't nearly as disappointing as in, say, Atlanta, where Just eight players turned up last week and practices were scrubbed. During the last workout, the Falcons did not exactly put on a pro-style show. Kicker Mick Luckhurst, bored by it all, brought his wife, pro golfer Terri Moody. While Mick held, Terri tried her foot at some extra points.

She shanked most of them, but not as many as Mick shanked when he pulled out Terri's golf clubs and started chipping balls around. The New Orleans Saints' workouts never attracted more than 25 players, and when the number dwindled to nine two weeks ago, the players packed it in due to "lack of interest," said wide receiver Rich Mauti. That would seem to be a common affliction these days around NFL cities. But if a settlement is reached in the strike, put your money on Miami and San Diego. "I'm going to have to upgrade the odds on the Dolphins," Jimmy The Greek" Snyder said recently on a local radio show.

"I like those organized practices." to work without a contract. We have been assured of no recess now. We will have a rep meeting early next week," Sheridan said. Under the terms of the TV contract, the league is to be paid $15 million (more than $500,000 per teamt for each week's games. League officials have said two of the five weeks affected by the walkout, now in its 30th day, will be made up later this season.

NFL and network officials confirmed shortly after the strike began on Sept. 21 that the league was being paid an additional $30 million as an advance against next year's portion of the TV contract. The Management Council also said it has estimated the total revenue losses at $28 million to $30 million per week. The owners, in their Sept. 8 offer, also had put on the table $126 million in cash bonuses based on a player's longevity.

Under it, players would receive $10,000 a year for each year of service, up to $100,000 per player. But the owners also said that for each week the players struck, the $126 million would be reduced by 25 percent. That entire portion of the package is now gone, the Manage ment Council said. The dramatic move came in a day during which mediator Sam Kagel said both sides had entered into "serious" discussions of economic issues. "We are negotiating and mediating all of the economic issues in great depth," Kagel said.

"It is a serious discussion of the respective positions of the parties on each of the issues constituting the total economic package." NFL players cheer Turner after game LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (AP) As far as the players were concerned, the hero of the second National Football League Players Association- sponsored all-star game wasn't in uniform. And, believe it or not, he's an owner. The American Conference squad beat their National Conference coun terparts, 31-27, in the Coliseum at Los Angeles when San Diego reserve quarterback Ed Luther fired a 54-yard touchdown pass with 12 minutes 29 seconds remaining. The game was televised nationally by the Turner Broadcasting System, and afterward, TBS owner Ted Turner took all the players into one dressing room where he was given a standing ovation.

"You are the game," Turner, who also owns baseball's Atlanta Braves and basketball's Atlanta Hawks, told the players. "I want you to know I'm with you all the way. The players then began chanting "Teddy, Teddy, Teddy." TBS also televised the first union sponsored all-star game in Washing ton, D.C., Sunday and Turner said the network will do the same with any and all remaining contests. The third one is scheduled at Toronto next Sunday. The site for that game was changed Tuesday, from Exhibition Stadium to Varsity Stadium.

Monday's contest, involving players who have been on strike for a month, was reasonably well-played. But fi nancially speaking, it was a disaster. The crowd was announced at 5,331 but Coliseum General Manager Jim Hardy said only 680 tickets were sold. The Coliseum seating capacity for Raiders' home games is 70,000. COCKEYSVILLE, MD.

(AP) -The National Football League Management Council, in a dramatic move Tuesday at the bargaining table, withdrew its guaranteed five-year, $1.6 billion package previously offered to the striking players. By doing so, the Management Council, the owners' bargaining unit, made good on its threat of Oct. 2, when it told the union it would "readjust its offer to reflect the owners' losses during the strike." The withdrawal of the guarantee followed the announcement by the league that it was calling off a the fifth regular-season weekend, Oct. 24-25. This is the first weekend of games for which the NFL will receive no money from the three major television networks.

ABC, CBS and NBC were to pay the NFL $330 million in 1982, the first year of a five-year, $2.1 billion contract. "We based that guarantee on five years of uninterrupted revenues," a management source said of the withdrawn offer. "We are experiencing a substantial drop in revenues because of the missed games and for every game we miss the revenues fall further." Ed Garvey, the union's executive director, said: "It just showws the $1.6 billion was never really there. It will not help the atmosphere but we will continue to bargain here." "Management has been pushing hard for a recess and a so-called 'cooling-off said union spokesman David Sheridan. "In 1974, we had a cooling-off period and it was a disaster.

It took three years to get an agreement. "We have canvassed our player reps and they are unalterably opposed to suggesting that we return AGAIN, HERZOG deserves all the credit in the world for building this St. Louis team, and bringing them to a World Series. Either he or Frank Robinson will be Manager of the Year in the National League. But the "White Rat" managed like one Saturday afternoon.

See, if baseball history has taught us anything, it is almost anyone can manage the team that wins the World Series. Harvey Kuenn has a chance to prove it again this week. This has nothing at all to do with Kuenn's makeup as a man. He is tough and good and honest and his players love him. But no one will ever accuse old Harvey of over-managing.

Once the games start, he appears to manage the Milwaukee Brewers from a deep, deep sleep. A bad manager, or a manager with Harvey's laissez-faire attitudes, has the same chance to win a World Series that a genius-type manager does. Sometimes, the sleeping manager has a better chance. Bob Lemon won a World Series with the Yankees by: (1) making out the lineup card without misspelling anyone's name; (2) hoping Reggie Jackson hit skads of home runs; and (3) spitting. Bible-toting Alvin Dark won a World Series; praise the Lord and pass the Rudis and Bandos and Jacksons and Blues.

Sparky Anderson, who is being undressed these days in Detroit, won with Cincinnati. Dallas Green, who never cared about managing, won with the Phillies. Maybe you can spot a trend here. In a short series, try to have a manager who knows enough to stay out of the way. 6 White Rat' managed like one "meaningful" moment, defining a marriage in a glimpse, then returning to the action at home plate.

"I like the idea of seeing the wife," Joe Garagiola said. "As long as it can be natural. If they let her be herself, an athlete's wife is a beautiful lady." to pitch to four batters. If those four batters weren't Yount, Cooper, Simmons and Thomas, then they don't exist, gang. That is just babbling from Herzog.

Later he would say this: "Those guys (the rest of his bullpen) have been doing it for me all season, and now you're telling me to bring in Sutter for one out." Right. If Bair and Kaat and Lahti have been doing it for him all year, and he has such wonderful confidence in them, then why was he so quick to pull Bair Friday night and bring in Sutter when his team was still leading, 5-0? If Sutter didn't pitch so much Friday night, he could have pitched Saturday, at least in Herzog's mind. But Friday night's panic started a chain of events that came back to bite Herzog on the nose Saturday. Herzog's pitching moves this weekend recalled the fifth game of the American League Championship Series against the Yankees. Whitey was with Kansas City then.

The Royals led for a long time that night. Then Whitey began to bring people out of the bullpen. With each move be made, he was slowly backing himself into a corner. He even tried his ace starter Dennis Leonard at one point. He finally ended up pitching the immortal Mark Littell, who had thrown the ninth-inning home run ball to Chris Chambliss the year before in the playoffs; the Yankees treated Littell as though the stork brought him, and finally won the game.

They will remember that evening in Kansas City for a long, long time, even if Herzog has obviously forgotten. Continued from Page One over, that seventh inning will just be another footnote if the Cardinals come back and win. If the Cardinals go ahead and lose, the seventh inning will have been the 79th World Series. It is all laid out for Whitey. Herzog should have used Bruce Sutter in that inning, during which the Brewers scored six runs and prevented the Cardinals from going up, three games to one.

When the score was 5-2 and the bases were loaded and Robin Yount was at the plate, Herzog should have replaced Doug Bair with Sutter, even if Sutter had pitched more than two innings the night before. A lot of relief pitchers a lot better than Sutter have pitched two games in a row, and three games in a row, in a Series. Herzog had a chance to put the Brewers in a shallow grave. He didn't do it. "I figured I could use Sutter for four batters," Herzog said in the interview room afterward.

Good grief. Which four? Herzog's team was still ahead, 5-2. The best player in baseball was at the plate. There are two outs. If Sutter can get Yount, and he can get the Brewers out in the eighth, then Herzog could have brought in all those Kaats and Lahtis in the ninth with a three-run cushion.

Or maybe Sutter can finish. Herzog made a stupid mistake. If he wants to call this sort, of revolutionary thinking "hindsight," that's tough. IN THE INTERVIEW room Saturday, Herzog heaped contradiction upon contradiction. First there was that part about Sutter being able.