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SPORTS Statesman Journal, Salem, Friday, July 6, 1990 Page 4F BevensKeizer man remembers '47 Series Royals ronott Tigers, A iy 'v V- throat. "I didn't really get to talk to him, but I got to say hello." That made Bevens' baseball dream complete. "I was just a farm boy from Hubbard," he said. "I never thought I'd get that far." Bevens was born in Hubbard, a small town north of Woodburn. After high school, he played for an American Legion team in Wood-burn and then a semipro team in Salem before being signed by the Yankees in 1937 at the age of 20.

He spent seven seasons in the minor leagues. Highlighting his stay there were two no-hitters while with Class Wenatchee of the Western International League. "It was step by step," he said of his march to the majors. In four years with the Yankees, Bevens was 40-36 with a 3.08 ERA. His best season was 1946, when he was 16-13 with a 2.23 ERA.

Although he has been out of the game 37 years, Bevens still lives for baseball. "I watch it every day," he said. And he said the Yankees are always in his thoughts, even though they now have the worst record in the major leagues. "I'm still with them. I never give up.

They'll get better." In the meantime, Bevens has enjoyed watching and hearing about the no-hitter frenzy. In a span of less than 48 hours last weekend, there were three no-hitters, bringing the season total to six. "There's a lot more nowadays, but I don't know why," Bevens said. "It takes a lot of luck." He mentioned, for instance, a play last Friday that ensured Fernando Valenzuela of the Los An-. geles Dodgers a no-hitter.

A grounder up the middle ticked off Valenzuela's glove and rolled to second baseman Juan Samuel, who stepped on the bag for one out, then threw to first base to complete a double play. "You have to have the breaks," Bevens said. "I had some breaks, but not enough But I'm happy to go as far as I did." Bo Jackson and George Brett each homered and drove in four runs Thursday as the Kansas City Royals tTSL Major Tigers, 15-3. i Jackson leagues continues his mm mm spiral upward from an early-season slump that probably cost him a spot on the American League All-Star team. In his first 40 games, Jackson had 17 RBI.

He has equaled that in his past eight games and has homered in his past three while raising his batting average to .278. He has 48 RBI. "Bo continues to swing the hot bat," Royals' manager John Wathan said. "Bo can carry a ballclub when he's playing like this. The last week or 10 days he's been awesome." So have the Royals.

In their past four games, including a sweep of the New York Yankees, they have scored 45 runs, batted .350 and banged out 50 hits. The Royals, who have hit doubles in 11 consecutive games and 17 of their past 18, had four against the Tigers to make a winner of last-minute starter Luis Aquino (3-0). Kansas City's 16 hits also included two triples and two homers. Aquino, getting his first start because Storm Davis had a bruised knuckle on his pitching hand, gave up one run and five hits in six innings. At Milwaukee 4, Oakland 3 Teddy Higuera gave up two hits In seven innings, and Gary Sheffield and Greg Brock, who is from Stayton, homered as the Brewers ended Bob Welch's 10-game winning streak.

Milwaukee played its first game without manager Tom Trebelhorn, who began serving a five-game suspension for his role in a brawl Saturday in Seattle. Sheffield, one of eight players su AP photo Minnesota shortstop Al Newman flies past Boston's Ellis Burks as he tries to snag a throw on Burks' stolen base. Continued from Page 1F. happened against Brooklyn. But Bevens' near no-hitter is almost as famous.

"I guess that's as close as you can get," he said. Bevens said his performance surprised a lot of people because he entered the Series with a 7-13 record and a 3.82 ERA. In Game 7 of the Series which the Yankees won 5-2 Bevens made another appearance on the mound. He came on in relief in the second inning and gave up two hits in 2 innings. "I didn't have much rest, only a couple days rest," Bevens said.

Although he didn't know it at the time, that would be the last time he would pitch in the majors. During the 1948 season, Bevens was bothered by arm problems. "I guess the shoulder just gave out," he said. "I hung around trying to cure it, but they couldn't do anything about it." So Bevens' baseball career seemed to have come to a halt. "I didn't want to end it that way," he said.

He tried to make a comeback in the minor leagues in 1951, pitching for the Salem Senators. "I won 20 games for them, and in '52, Cincinnati drafted me. I went to spring training, but I didn't get in any games so they sold me to 'Frisco." Bevens played for San Fransi-sco in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League for one season, but he ended up back with the Senators in 1953. "I pitched a couple of months and said, 'That's Although his baseball career was spotted with disappointments, Bevens said he got everything out of it he had hoped for. "I wanted three things to be a Yankee, meet Babe Ruth and pitch in the World Series.

All my dreams were answered." Bevens met the former Yankee slugger shortly before Ruth died in 1948. "He came out to the ballpark and gave a farewell speech," Bevens said. "He could hardly talk because he had cancer of the Pitcher tries to The Hartford Courant KANSAS CITY, Mo. People keep trying to convince New York Yankee Andy Hawkins that his life is going to change because of the no-hitter he threw Sunday against the Chicago White Sox. Hawkins does not believe them.

He says the most unusual thing that has happened so far is rock singer Joan Jett sending flowers to his hotel room in Kansas City. "I've never met her," Hawkins said. "I know she and the (Don) Mattinglys are friends. But I thought that was real nice." Hawkins will take the Yankee Stadium mound this afternoon for the first time since Sunday's no-hitter, which Hawkins and the spended in the same incident, can play until his appeal is heard. Welch (13-3) left the game with a right hip strain after giving up Brock's two-run homer in the fourth.

It was Welch's shortest outing in two years and his first loss since May 5. At Minnesota 7, Boston 4 The Twins' Shane Mack and Fred Manri-que hit consecutive run-scoring doubles in the seventh inning to give reliever Tim Drummond his first major league victory. Drummond (1-3) relieved to start the sixth. He gave up three hits, struck out three and walked none In 2V3 scoreless innings. Seattle 4, at Cleveland 1 Omar Vizquel singled and hit his second major league home run in his first two at-bats of the season, and Erik Hanson pitched a three-hitter over eight innings for the Mariners.

Vizquel, called up earlier Thursday from Class AAA Calgary, gained revenge for a sprained left knee sustained in a spring training game against Cleveland. He spent the first month of the season on the disabled list before being sent to Calgary. Harold Reynolds, a graduate of Corvallis High School, was 2 for 5 with three RBI to help the Mariners. At Toronto 9, California 2 Dave Stieb, knocked out early in his two previous starts, gave up two hits in seven scoreless innings and struck out a season-high nine for the Jays. At Texas 3, Baltimore 2 Rafael Palmeiro's solo homer in the sixth inning snapped a 1-1 tie, and Mike Jeffcoat pitched a seven-hitter for 8Vi innings for the Rangers.

Baltimore's Cal Ripken established a major league record for consecutive errorless chances by a shortstop when he handled Jeff Huson's grounder leading off the Texas first. That gave Ripken 332 chances without an error, breaking the mark set by Detroit's Eddie Brinkman in 1972. NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis 4, at San Diego 1 Tom Pagnozzi's tie-breaking double sparked a three-run ninth inning as the Cardinals handed the Padres their eighth loss in nine games. Greg Harris (4-3), pitching in his fifth consecutive game, gave up a lead-off single to Jose Oquendo in the ninth before Pagnozzi doubled to left. Baseball notes Milwaukee manager Tom Trebelhorn decided not to appeal a ruling by American League president Bobby Brown and began serving a five-game suspension for his role in a brawl Saturday in Seattle.

Four Brewers B.J. Surhoff, Mike Felder, Gary Sheffield and Bob Sebra also were suspended. The four were ejected from Saturday's game. Trebelhorn was not ejected, but Seattle manager Jim Le-febvre accused him of prolonging and instigating the incident and losing control of his team, WOOD PRIVACY including his first major league home run and three RBI. New York 9, at Atlanta 8 Dar-ryl Strawberry capped a five-run seventh inning with a three-run homer that led the long-ball Mets to victory, their 22nd win in 25 games.

Strawberry's home run, his 21st, was the fourth of five the Mets hit in the game. Pittsburgh 9, at Los Angeles 6 Andy Van Slyke and Bobby Bonilla homered on consecutive pitches off the Dodgers' Ramon Martinez in the fifth, and Rick Reed allowed five hits over 6 innings for the Pirates. From AP wires All-Star rosters have 16 first-timers Detroit's Cecil Fielder, San Francisco's Matt Williams and Bobby Thigpen of the Chicago White Sox led a list of 16 first-time All-Stars picked Thursday as managers Tony La Russa and Roger Craig filled out their rosters with pitchers and reserves. Seven of the National League's 10 pitchers, including 35-year-old Dennis Martinez of Montreal and 22-year-old Ramon Martinez of Los Angeles, were selected for the first time. Relievers Gregg Olson of Baltimore and Thigpen, and no-hit man Randy Johnson of Seattle are new to the American League staff for Tuesday's game at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Manager will not appeal Louis Cardinals was suspended for seven games for bumping umpire Ed Montague during an argument in Wednesday's game in San Francisco. The dispute, which led to Coleman's ejection, began after Montague called him out on a steal attempt in the sixth inning. Steinbrenner is fined Team owner George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees were ordered to pay $200,000 to the California Angels and fined $25,000 by commissioner Fay Vincent, who ruled that Steinbrenner tampered with Dave Winfield after he was traded to the Angels on May 11. From AP wires Pagnozzi then advanced on a groundout and scored on Ozzie Smith's squeeze bunt for a 3-1 lead. Pedro Guerrero singled, and Rex Hudler hit a run-scoring double.

At Montreal 11, Houston 0 Rookie Mark Gardner pitched a four-hitter for the Expos. Gardner (5-4), struck out a career-high 11 batters and walked four to record his second shutout and second complete game. Cincinnati 9, at Philadelphia 2 The Reds' Jack Armstrong pitched seven strong innings for his third straight win and 1 1th of the season. Armstrong got offensive support from Hal Morris, who had three hits charges Trebelhorn denied. "I want to put it behind us, over with," Trebelhorn said.

"I look at it as though I could appeal it, but once you're dead, you're dead. And I don't need a funeral." Surhoff, Felder and Sheffield were suspended for three games and fined $300 each. Surhoff and Sheffield have appealed, and Felder said he would. Sebra, who hit Seattle's Tracy Jones with a pitch that started the fight, drew a five-game suspension. Sebra was optioned to the minors Wednesday, and his suspension would not begin until his return to the majors.

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