The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 12

B-4 Thursday, March 29, 1990 The Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville, La. Former ASH standout Cole having back problems a week ago. "I was fielding better and I ws eettine Drettv eood ing in Charleston, W. a team the Cubs have since discontinued. "Three stolen bags," Cole said quietly.

"I had bad luck." He played a month and started to get into a groove. But the base he stretched for was an old one that was strapped into hooks buried into the ground. "Any other base," said Cole, "and it would've given." Still, the personable 21-year- and hoped to "nip it in the bud" with special exercises and stretching. "Which is something you can't do," he said, noting he doesn't expect to be out for a full month this year. "It's either gonna get tighter or loosen up.

It's got a mind of its own." Cole retained his sense of humor throughout a subpar season last year in which he hit just .234 with one homer and three stolen bases while play Last year, despite preventative measures, those same spasms kept Cole out for the first month of the season. Two months later, he sprained his ankle lunging for first base on a grounder to second. He beat the throw. "That was the only good thing to come out of it," laughed Cole, whose current regimen of exercise consists of walking foul pole to foul pole. He said he had started to feel the onslaught of back spasms bat speed, which surprised me." Cole doesn't intend to let his unsettled back set him back any when he reports to Class A Peoria of the Midwest League in mid-April.

"The Cubs know what I can do, and they're giving me a fair shot," said Cole. "All I have to do is relax, and I know what I can do when I relax." old admitted he pressed too hard last year. "I never could relax," said Cole, an all-stater in high school. "I've learned to relax more. That's my game.

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I I (u to (ft 99 By Michael A. Lough Staff reporter Hey, Marvin, what's goin' on? "Things were going well," said Marvin Cole, the former Alexandria Senior High baseball standout, currently in the Chicago Cubs farm system. Unlike Marvin Gaye, this Marvin wasn't singing. The emphasis in his reply was on "were." "Those back spasms have been acting up again," said Cole, currently in Mesa, Ariz, for spring training. "I was fielding ground balls and the muscles just locked up." After taking a trip to the neurologist, Cole learned that nobody is immune from muscle spasms.

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