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C12 The BfMT-n Journal rrirl.tv April 8. 1383 TELEVISION Baseball and show biz all the same to soap star TAer grumble about how professional baseball has become nothing but show business? John Beradino, a regular on Genera Hospital since the ABC soap opera premiered in April 1963, can tell you something about that. In 1948, the year the Cleveland Indians won their last World Series. Beradino (then Berardino) was the team's utility infielder. "I felt it was like entertainment even back when I was playing," Beradino said Thursday during an interview at ABC affiliate WEWS-Ch.

5 in Cleveland. "You're performing on a stage in front of an audience. You get the applause when you do well. You get booed when you perform badly." Television, however, has made instant stars of baseball players. When a leg injury ended Beradino's career in 1953, Hollywood studios weren't lining up with contracts for ex-major leaguers.

"With the constant exposure of television, today's players go right from the playing field to a movie set," said Beradino, who plays Dr. Steve Hardy on Gen- "My folks thought I was going to be another child star," Beradino said. "The timing was off by about 30 years." His major-league career started in 1939 with the St. Louis Browns, and, except for a four-year stint with the Navy during World War II, he stayed with that team until 1947. "The St.

Louis Browns finished in seventh place in 1947," he said, "and, in the fall of '47, I was traded to the Washington Senators, who had finished eighth." Rather than sign with an even worse team, Beradino, who was working with acting coaches and the Pasadena Playhouse between seasons, announced he would quit baseball for a career in Hollywood. Enter master baseball showman Bill Veeck, who persuaded Beradino to play for Veeck's Cleveland Indians. "I signed for the money," Beradino said. "Bill offered to double my salary and gave me a bonus. "Bill didn't need me," Beradino said.

"He just heard that Detroit was interested in me and he didn't want them to get me. After two seasons with the Indians, Beradino was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates. He went from Pittsburgh back to St. Louis, then back to Geveland for the '52 season, ending his career in '53 with Pittsburgh with a lifetime .249 major-league batting average. Although Beradino had hoped to be on hand for tonight's Indians home opener, his schedule ruled out that possibility.

Still, Thursday's visit was a time to take note of anniversaries: 40 years since the Indians won the World Series and 25 years since General Hospital premiered. He has received three Emmy nominations. Which has given him the greater satisfaction, a strong acting performance or hitting a home run? A gentle smile and a pause preceded his answer. "Oh, hitting a home run," said Beradino, who pounded out 36 major-league homers. "That sweet stroke, huh?" Mark Dawidziak is the Beacon Journal's television writer.

Mark Davvidziak eral Hospital and will be 71 years old on May 1. "That wasn't there when I left baseball. Like any other actor, I had to suffer the tortures of the damned and struggle for the breaks. "But I think that made me a better actor because I had to work harder for it. If it comes too easy, you don't learn your craft.

You're more inclined to sell yourself than your abilities. You're not an actor. You're just being yourself." Acting was a goal long before visions of baseball diamonds danced in his head. Growing up in Los Angeles, Beradino was an extra a day and a box in several Our Gang comedies filmed at Hal Roach Studios. TONIGHT OjNews NBCNews News Can't Take Highwayman Night C'rt Bev.Buntz Miami Vice News The Best of Carson Late Night Videos "QNews ABC News Fortune Jeopardy! Strangers Full House Belvedere Fam.Man 2020 News TJ News CBS News PMMagai Beauty and the Beast Dallas FalconCrest News "Tent8des" 1877)(Shtey WlntafSj "AlHtflttt" TDi (6:00) Praise the Lord TBN Today Diane Bish Frederick K.

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RBg "Except for Me and Thee" (1975) Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight. The Indiana Birdwells risk their lives and Quaker beliefs to help two runaway slaves at the time of the Civil War. 5:00 p.m. "The Big Street" See 9:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

fcTUn "The Seventh Voyage ot Sinbad" (1958) Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant. Sinbad the sailor needs the egg of a giant two-headed bird ol prey to restore Princess Parisa, shrunk by Sokurah the magician. 053 "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnme. A U.S. major turns 12 Gl felons into soldiers for a top-secret commando raid on Nazis prior to D-day.

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A grinning country boy woos an heiress away from her snooty fiance. "Dial lor Murder" (1981) Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plum-mer. A husband plots his wife's murder so he can collect her inheritance. "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1976) Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin. Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

Watson consult Sigmund Freud for expert advice in solving a case. HI "The Knack" (1965) Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks. A country girl comes to London and meets three men, one of whom has a way with women the other two want. gWTJ "A Christmas Story" (1983) Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin. Horn-rimmed little Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christ-mas in 1940s Indiana.

Santa says no. liHffWl "The Best of Times" (1986) Robin Williams, Kurt Russell. Two adults organize the replay of a big high-school football game which ended in disgrace when one dropped the other's touchdown pass. 9:00 p.m. H3 "The Big Street" (1942) Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball.

Broadway bus-boy Little Pinks hitchhikes to Florida with Gloria, a gangster's ex-moll in a wheelchair. HOT1 "The Chosen" (1981) Rob-by Benson, Barry Miller. Two boys become friends in 1940s Brooklyn despite their fathers, a Zionist professor and a Hasidic rabbi. IJjrfJ "Pumping Iron II: The Women" (1985) Rachel McLish, Bev Francis. Contest judges and top body builders try to define femininity at the 1983 world championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

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Miyagi returns to Okinawa with his karate protege, Daniel, and faces an old foe's challenge to a duel of honor. 9:45 p.m. HI "Up the Creek" (1984) Tim Matheson, Jennifer Runyon. The college dean guarantees graduation if Bob and his buddies can beat preppies, coeds and cadets in the big raft race. Radio personality Fig Newton returns Monday to WWWE DAYTIME 7:00 a.m.

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ESI Beauty and the Beast Catherine goes into an emotional tail-spin on the 20th anniversary of her mother's death. (Season linaie Three ditterent conclusions were taped, one including the Urst kiss between Catherine and Vincent) CJ 8:30 p.m. Full House Jesse's new gi'l- i Ml faVV I i DAWIDZIAK'S BEST BETS Noon (B Buck Privates After conquering burlesque, radio and Broadway, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello established themselves as Hollywood stars with this 1941 Army comedy The film includes several of the comedy learn best routines and two Oi the Andrews Sisters' biggest hits: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and Apple Blossom Time. WUAB. 9:30 p.m.

3) HH Beverly Hills Buntz A wealthy couple hires Norm Buntz (Dennis Franz) to find their maid's boyfriend, who's missing in Mexico. NBC. tp 10 p.m. CD A program of traditional Irish iranz music performed by flutist James Galway and folk band the Chiettans. PBS.

10 p.m. mi It's Garry Shandllng's Show In this episode of the comedian's witty series, Garry appears on 77ie Love Connection Zsa Zsa Gabor guest stars. Showtime. CJ Mark Dawidziak is the Beacon Journal's television writer SYMBOLS GUIDE Chicago EH New York ED Atlanta ESI Steubenville EUD Wheeling ESI Arts Entertainment Network BM3 American Movie Classics ED Black Entertainment Television 03 CBN Network Cinemax El Cable News Network BB C-SPAN (Cable Satellite Public Af fairs Network) tESl Discovery Channel ES3 Disney Channel 021 Entertainment Sports Programming Network EH Financial News Network HI Home Box Office ILHNI Learning Channel EH Lifetime 03 Movie Channel p5) Music Television Nashville Network Nickelodeon (SHI Playboy Channel IGD People That Love SShowtime EBg Tempo EE3 Travel Channel USA Network Video Hits-One Warner Akron position 7 (UJ Warner Canton position 14 Adelphia position 9 Clear Picture position 9 EES Marks position 1 1 9 Closed captioned for hearing-impaired From staff and wire reports Radio announcer Fig Neivton is returning to Cleveland from Denver, where he was music station KSPZ's afternoon voice. Newton will take over the afternoon drive-time spot (2 p.m.

start) Monday on talk station WWWE (1100-AM), replacing John Krist. Newton most recently worked in Cleveland in 1984, when he was morning host at WWWE. Krist, formerly with WGAR, no longer is with WWWE. The Christian Science Monitor will launch via syndication or cable a nightly half-hour newscast, Monitor News-world, in September with 13-year NBC correspondent John Hart as anchor. WEWS-Ch.

5 anchor Ted Henry had discussed the anchor job with Monitor brass. Commentator Hodding Carter, a former spokesman for the State Department, will be Monitor Newsworld's Washington correspondent. The Christian Science Monitor also has a syndicated TV news analysis show, The Christian Science Monitor Reports, and a radio show. Syndicated columnist Jack Anderson will do four syndicated specials in a year, starting with a Who Murdered J.F.K. expose in November, the 25th anniversary of President John F.

Kennedy's assassination. Herbert Hochhauser, Kent State University director of the Jewish studies and ethnic heritage programs, and Saul Friedman, history professor at Youngstown State University and adjunct professor at KSU, got their second regional Emmy nomination for a documentary they co-produced, Susan: A Mengele Twin. The documentary centers on Susan Vigorito of Erie, who was in Auschwitz death camp from age 2 John Hart Herbert Hochhauser to 5i2- Susan will air on WVlZ-Ch. 25 at 10 p.m. May 16.

Hochhauser and Friedman won a regional Emmy in 1986 for their documentary, Robert Clary: A5714, A Memoir of Liberation, about the former Hoga 's Heroes actor. Advertising agencies for candidates George Bush, Pat Robertson, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee signed interim contracts with the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Radio and Television Artists in the commercial actors' strike. Jesse Jackson, noting that he didn't use actors in his commercials, sent a letter supporting the strikers.

Monday's Kansas-Oklahoma NCAA basketball title game on CBS was the lowest-rated ever in prime time, replacing last year's Syracuse-Indiana game as the worst, and the lowest overall since the last daytime game in 1972, UCLA vs. Florida State. The record belongs to the 1979 matchup between Larry Bird's Indiana State and Magic Johnson's Michigan State. tionship. Repeat, as the show returns to its old time.

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60 Family Man Josh's attempt to make friends at school evokes an unexpected reaction. (TV Stereo) 10:00 p.m. 9 Vice Skeptical Crockett's assignment to protect a witness turns into an unexpected rela- friend becomes attracted to Joey Repeat. 60 0 CD Wall Street Week Spring Into Slocks. Investment analyst Abby Joseph Cohen.

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CJ CI FSi 1WTF1 Dallas J.R. uncovers evidence that could exonerate Clayton of murder charges; Kimberly recruits an unlikely ally against R. Upstair; Downstairs Georgina's friendship with a wild society girl leads to a scene at a London film studio and a servant's resignation. (B CD Great Performances On the Move: The Central Ballet of China. Young Chinese dancers learn U.S.

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EOT Brothers Donald receives an urn containing his aunt's ashes. (Part 1 of 2) 9 10:35 p.m. WTRl Pro Basketball Phoenix at Golden State. 11:30 p.m. HE The Beat of Carson Jonathan Winters; Dwight Yoakam; actress Anne-Marie Johnson.

Repeat. CD The Late Show Host Jeff Joseph with band Great White, athlete Willie Gault, Sydney Walsh (Hooperman). Lynn Whitfield (HeartBeat). CD 1WTRF1 Golf Masters Tournament, Second-Round Highlights..