The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 45

DAiiKELL SPROUTED BESIDE WATER METER 771 Wtim la. 1 CONSTITUTION r. PORT if" Tuesday, May 30, 1972, Page 1-D drafted me out of high school because I thought I was going Southern Cal on a full scholarship. I didn't though, and ound up in love with basketball for awhile in college. "I finally signed with Kansas City for $15,000 with incen-'tive bonus clauses in 1967.

That first pro year at Bradenton in the Gulf Coast League (hit .489) I had Connie Ryan and Luke Appling as coaches and I learned more and came along faster man at any time in my career. Luke could make you relax. i "It was a bad year for me when I got out of the Marines. I ivent to Birmingham and had a bad (.241) part-season. My always one of my strong points, was sore and gone.

It scared me. I guess the A's figured with Sal Bando coming up they could risk me on the Vancouver roster. After the first shock, I was pleased when the Braves drafted me (December, "I felt I'd get a quicker big league chance. I guess it has worked out about that way. I'm happy to be at third base in -Atlanta." It was suggested that Evans, hitting over .280 with six homers and as many big hits as any Brave this year, hits i best in clutch situations.

He had two hits Monday, and he ill scored the winning run in the ninth (2-1) after one of them. if And Darrell said, "I guess I get psyched up more then. It scares me a little, but I have strong pride to try to do what I'm supposed to do. Hitting sixth or seventh, when someone's iF on base it's usually a big run. I figure that's my job for this I club to knock in big runs.

"I figure if I hit about .280, hit about 25 homers and knock i in 70-75 runs that low in the batting order, I'll help the club. My main goal, I guess, is to keep my run production up." By CHARLIE ROBERTS The first third base Darrell Evans eyer played was a "water meter. He was six weeks old when he saw his first base-ball game. His first catcher and batting coach was his mother. The first diamond on which he played was his front yard, and they used the water meter for thid base.

First base was a tree. So was second base. 1 Of course, that was all a long time before 1972, the year he started becoming one of the National League's most danger- ous clutch hitters for the Atlanta Braves. That was in Pasadena, and it also was a long time before he was drafted by five major league teams over a I three-year span Chicago Cubs. New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies and Kansas City Athletics.

I I "Dad used to get upset with us for digging holes and tear-1 ing up the front-yard grass where we had home plate," said Evans as he dressed to play against the San Diego Padres VtZ Monday night. Back then his batting stance wasn't the same as it is now, which should be a model fot card-board cutouts of the ideal player. "I didn't always have the closed stance I have now, be-' cause when the neighborhood kids played in our yard any ball not hit toward the street was a foul ball. The street was in left, so I started with an open stance to hit in that direction when I batted left-handed. I switch-hit then," Darrell added through puffed lips.

He's played since Saturday night despite a wound 'that required 12 stitches to close. A bad hop off the bat of Chris Speier of the Giants hit him in the mouth. X' "I hit to the wrong field as a kid. and didn't close my stance and start gradually to become the pull hitter lam today until I was in the Marines (1967-68) and got stronger. "I think having to hit toward the street probably helped me become a good hitter.

It made me watch for the ball a lit- tie longer." Dave Salazar, Darrell's grandfather, was in ttie White Sox organization and pitched for years in the Pacific Coast League. His uncle, Bob Evans, pitched hi the St. Louis 3 Ilis father, for many years a sheet metal mechanic, played college baseball. His aunt, Margaret Salazar, was an Ail-American outfielder for a Montebellor softball team which won several national titles. His mother, Eleanor, played outfield for Montebello, too.

Thus Evans was steeped in baseball tradition, and he said, "Whatever I accomplish in the game will be a tribute to my parents and family. They encouraged but never pressed me to play. They let me do what I wanted. It was good for me and my brotiher Mike. He's 18 and playing third base for the same junior college (Pasadena City) where I played baseball and basketball.

"I pitched a lot in high school and hit .400 a couple of years in college, and I didnt sign with the Cubs when they Staff Photo Billy Down BRAVES COACH ED MATHEWS WITH PUPIL Darrell Evans (R) Gets Batting Tip 9 Single escues j-i" jii luiwHiim n- t- -wmiii)'. itiiwiM niHVf "iji, wwr-1 n- wpvJSwrwjp tymnmtri '-gaff jww a. iwnw vwxt-bp vu wnwm mm jawainiiwi i .1: iv: s. 'v -i: r-. 1 Tm -mmm: mtmi-SSmm 4 'ii'' jA.

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It was the second straight game-winning blow for Baker, whose RBI single provided a. 7-6 llth-inning win over San Francisco in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader. "I don't know how I manage to get him up in the right spot all the time," said Braves manager Luman Harris, tongue in cheek. "Superior managing?" someone "I'm glad you recognized, it," he said, laughing. Ralph Garr claimed to have called the shot for his buddy Baker, too.

"When Dusty came up there with the bases loaded, I knew it was over," said Garr. just started gathering up the Staff Photo BMIv Doom Wax stuff in the dugout and taking it to the clubhouse." Baker just smiled through it all. Singles by Rico Carty, who was replaced as a runner by Oscar Brown, and Darrell Evans opened the ninth and chased Padre starter Bill Greif to the showers in favor of Mike Corkins. Corkins hit Earl Williams with a pitch to load the bases and get Baker to the plate. Dusty promptly ended it with a ground single up the middle.

Until the fatal ninth, Grief, who shut out the Braves earlier this year in San Diego, See BAKER'S, Page 4-D Braves' Box SAN DIEGO ATLANTA ab bl ab bi DThomas 2b 4 0 2 0 Millan 2b 4 0 0 0 Jestadt 3b 4 0 10 Garr rf 4 0 0 0 Lee 4 0 0 0 HAaron lb 4 0 0 0 Colbert lb 3 0 0 0 Carty If 3 0 10 Stahl rf 3 10 0 OsBrown pr 0 10 0 Jeter cf 4 0 2 0 Evans 3b 3 12 0 Barton 2 0 0 1 KWiMams 3011 Hernandz es 2 0 0 0 Baker rf 4 0 2 2 Greif 5 0 0 0 MPerez 2 0 0 0 Corkins 0 0 0 0 Nash 2 0 0 0 Lum ph 0 0 0 0 Jarvis 0 0 0 0 Total 29 1 5 Total 29262 None out when Winn In run scored. San Dirco 000 090 1001 Atlanta .00000000 2 Evans. DP-San Dieso 1, Atlanta 2. LOB San Diego 5. Atlanta 8.

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A 4IARTY PEREZ LOOKS LIKE HE GOT HIT BY ONE OF THOSE KARATE EXPERTS WHO PUT ON PRE-GAME SHOW Actually, the Braves Shortstop Had to Hit the Dirt When a Bill Greif Pitch Nicked His Bat, Then His Head it. I v'; i -fi? iVit FRENCH PRESS PANS FOOTBALL 1 aris Ain't Green Bay 4 Vf VVV PARIS (AP) United States pro football has bombed in Paris, shutting down with nightmare notices that Hamlet wouldn't have survived. The Paris press was brutal with the game and France's best known rugby player, Andre Boniface, said Monday he turned off his television after watching it for 10 minutes. What the French saw was a demonstration played in semi-slow motion Saturday by two teams of National Football League all-stars for the American Hospital of Paris. But most believed that the performance was the real thing and regarded American football an abomination.

"To us, these American football players seemed static, without reflexes or imagination, lacking in enterprise, and in precarious physical condition," the Sports Daily, L'Equipe wrote of the performance of players such as Bob Hayes, Ben Davidson and Gene Washington. L'Equipe said, "The crowd was very disappointed, and robbed by a show which was not worth 85 francs, ($13) for box seats. We're very disappointed, even if it was a benefit game." The players were on their way home by the time the commentaries were in the papers Monday morning. L'Aurore, the conservative newspaper, said the sport was a diasppointment and claimed that a 50-yard touchdown pass to Hayes was a setup that fooled no one. "They went too far in setting up a nice show without any risk for the actors," L'Aurore said.

"Rugby can sleep soundly in France, there's no risk that American football takes its place." Staff Photo Billy Downs SAN DIEGO PADRES BRAVES' DARRELL EVANS BARREL-ROLLS, BREAKS UP DOUBLE PLAY Padre Derrell Thomas Tumbled to Ground a Moment Later TONIGHT 8:05 P.M. Orioles Stop Indians, Take Lead in AL East game efforts by Baltimore's four 20-game winners of last season. (I 1 Jf S' I -a :4 11 -v -1 -y r- avi y.yy.'.f A. -A ly1 rvs.y -v --iy a maa Jaa. -AAAtMmm A i 4 BALTIMORE abrhbi! neuenma a 2 3 0 4 1 1 2 0 0 CLEVELAND abrhbi McCraw cf 4 13 0 Brohamr 2b 4 0 2 1 AJohnson If 3 0 0 0 Nettles 3b 4 0 0 0 Chmbliss lb 4 0 0 0 Fosse a 3 0 0 0 Knser rf 3 0 0 0 uliy ss 2 0 0 0 Crowley rf Blair Baylor If JPowell lh 3 12 1 BALTIMORE (AP) Pat Dobson pitched a five-hitter as the Baltimore Orioles completed a four-game sweep over the Cleveland Indians 6-1 Monday night and took over first place in the American League East.

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