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i iIL rookie honor? Color it Dodger blue Yankees dream on at groundbreaking BASEBALL By MARC TOPKIN Timei Staft Writer NL Rookie vote LA outfielder Raul Mondesi became the 14th Dodger to win the award. Associated Press 1 MX A r. "You try not to feel singled out, because a lot of people have been affected," Showalter said. "I'm trying to get ready for 1995, with all hopes that there will be a '95 season. You've got to prepare for it.

My worst nightmare is we regress." Rizzuto, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame earlier this year, said canceling the post-season was the worst thing baseball could have done, "It's absolutely brutal," Rizzuto said. "They're real huckleberries, the owners and the players, to not let the season happen and then have their arguments. It's a good thing George (Steinbrenner) sent me to Italy or it really would have been tough." Jackson said baseball officials need to get right to work on solving the labor mess and he has some ideas: Get rid of the outsiders such as mediator William Usery, force the sides to meet six days a week, and narrow the discussion to the core issues. "You have to get reality and realism involved," he said. Note: There will be a series of free baseball events from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday adjacent to the Yankees complex on Himes Avenue. Opening Day in October, sponsored by the Yankees Backers community group, includes an instructional league game between the Yankees and Cardinals, along with assorted children's games, contr -ts, clinics and entertainment, TAMPA Buck Showalter arid Gene Michael would have been plenty busy in New York on Thursday. As the manager and general manager of the team with the best record in the American League, the Yankees' brass conceivably could have been celebrating a victory in the just-concluded playoffs and preparing for Saturday's opening game of the World Series. The players' strike took care of that. Instead they were in Tampa along with Yankees greats Reggie Jackson and Phil Rizzuto, plus a host of Tampa Bay area leaders for the groundbreaking of the team's new spring training complex, a grand state-of-the-art facility scheduled to open in 1996.

The circumstance wasn't lost amid the pomp. "This Saturday," Yankees general partner Joe Molloy said from the stage, "the 1994 World Series was to begin. We all know the New York Yankees would have been celebrating a championship sometime within the week. Isn't that right, Mr. Showalter?" "It's depressing," Michael said.

"It's a shame, really a shame. Especially because we had such high hopes." Showalter, named Tuesday the AL Manager of the Year, is coping by looking ahead. Times photo FRASER HALE GM Gene Michael, left, and manager Buck Showalter attend groundbreaking ceremonies in Tampa for the Yankees' spring training complex and stadium. RAUL MONDESI Voting for the 1994 National League Rookie of the Year Award, with first-, second- and third-place votes and total points on a 5-3-1 basis: Player 1st2nd 3rd Tot Mondesi, LA 28 140 J. Hudek, Hou 8 3 27 R.

Klesko, Atl 6 7 25 S. Trachsel, Chi 6 4 22 C. Floyd, Mon 2 4 10 Hamilton, SD 2 4 10 Vn Lndnghm, SF 2 3 9 H. Carrasco, Cin 1 3 B. Jones, NY 1 3 J.

Lopez, Atl 2 2 S. Reynolds, Hou 11 NEW YORK Maybe they should just rename the prize. Call it the Dodgers rookie of the year award. Outfielder Raul Mondesi unanimously won the NL Rookie of the Year Award Thursday, the third straight Los Angeles winner of an honor the Dodgers have dominated since its inception. The Dodgers have had the top rookie 14 times since Jackie Robinson for whom the plaque is now named won the initial award in 1947 with Brooklyn.

No other NL team has won more than six. Mondesi, who batted .306 and led major-league outfielders with 16 assists, was the seventh unanimous winner in the NL. Dodgers catcher Mike Piazza was a unanimous winner last year, and Los Angeles first baseman Eric Karros won in a closer vote in 1992. "I want to say thank you to my teammates," Mondesi said from his home in the Dominican Republic. "They tell me, 'You've got to play hard because you've got a chance to win rookie of the I played hard every day, that's why I won." Lauderdale courts O's FORT LAUDERDALE City officials on Wednesday re-emphasized their desire to bring the Baltimore Orioles to Fort Lauderdale Stadium for spring training after 1995.

The reaction came one day after Coral Springs city officials also expressed interest in having the Orioles train at a still-to-be determined site. The Orioles are looking for a permanent spring training site. They train in Sarasota and share Al Lang Stadium with the St. Louis Cardinals in St. Petersburg.

The Orioles' Joe Foss, vice chairman of business affairs, has talked with city officials from Fort Lauderdale, Homestead, Orlando and now Coral Springs. M's want moveable roof SEATTLE The Mariners, who say they need a new ballpark to be profitable, won't sign a long-term lease unless such a stadium has a retractable roof, chairman John Ellis said. Ellis, part-owner and chief representative of the team's ownership group, outlined the team's needs to a King County task force studying stadium alternatives. The Mariners released an audit Tuesday that showed the team lost more than $20-million this season and nearly $17-million in 1993. week, displaced the San Francisco outfielder, according to the rank ings released by the Ehas Sports Bureau.

Frank Thomas of the Chi' cago White Sox remained third. Around the league Red Sox: Andre Dawson, Frank Viola, Joe Hesketh and Tom Brunansky became free agents when Boston declined to offer sala ry arbitration. Athletics: Oakland will not exercise its option on closer Dennis Eckersley for 1995. The team held Wj a $4-million option on the 1992 Cy Young Award winner who is now eligible to become a free agent. Twins: Outfielder Shane Mack has filed for free-agency, al though the team says it's optimistic that it will re-sign him.

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