The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 86

Thursday. June 27, 1985Part 9 CosAnflrteg Slimes TRIPLETS dream. I told them to look at it as my male menopause early. Fortunately, I've got a good enough woman to allow me to do it." Koske says he's aware that his chances of going farther than the rookie league are remote, but he doesn't rule it out. "Maybe a (big league) team not doing real well or not drawing well (might take a chance on me)," he said.

"They might pump that up with publicity. Geez. It's the great American dream." natural," a backhanded compliment to the similarity between and slugger Roy Hobbs in the Robert Redford movie, "The Natural." "If I had to give something away (to get here), I'd give away whatever I had," he said. "The only thing I have to be careful of is what's taken away from my wife and kids. I was able to put together two deals to give them what they would need for the summer so I could come up here and chase my PATTERN mm Juna 27th thru Jim 30th jjjgg Continued from Page 8 Triplets lost to Spokane, 10-6, for the third straight night.

Levine and Goldstein had been less involved with the team than the other owners because of other commitments. The next night was different. Six-foot-three, 200-pound Darren Parker from Gardena High School pitched, allowing only five hits in seven innings. It was the first start for Parker, who was suspended for fighting and then released by an Atlanta Braves farm team in 1984 and is fighting his way back into organized baseball in a positive way. Shortstop Leon Baham of Belmont High School, released by an Oakland A's farm team after he needed rotator cuff shoulder surgery in 1982, drove in a run.

The Triplets, scoring all their runs with two outs, led 4-0 after seven innings. When Triplets' relief pitcher Pat Murphy ended a Spokane rally after only one run in the eighth inning, Dick Leavitt, who had been pacing near a fence behind the first base dugout, raised his fist and clapped joyously. "That's what this team is all about," he said. "That's the team I knew we had." When Spokane came to bat for the ninth inning, Leavitt, still in street clothes, opened the gate, walked onto the field and into the Triplets dugout. After Murphy retired the side, giving the Triplets their first victory, 4-1, Leavitt hugged his manager, Olsen.

"You did it! You did it," he shouted. MM ROB SCHUMACHER Owners' wives Bobbi Leavitt, left, and Florence Goldstein put stadium chairs in the bleachers. lj cry EACH play professional baseball in 1973 when he pitched United States International University of San Diego to a national small college championship. He rejected both offers and never played professionally. Last April, the San Diego realtor lost 23 pounds, attended a Triplets tryout camp and told his wife and two children, 6 and 3, that he would be going to Washington to pitch in a rookie league this summer.

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