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Sunday, September 8, 1985l'art VI 19 TEAM: Players' Last Chance Cos Angeles Slimes Continued front Page 18 "but I had no one to turn to." He has regretted the decision ever since, so at age 34 when he heard about a Triplets tryout in Los Angeles last winter, he attended. The Triplets called on a Friday afternoon last spring and told him to be in the Tri Cities on Sunday. Koske said goodby to his wife, 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter and drove 21 straight hours to get there. Early in the season he felt terrible pain in his side beneath his pitching shoulder. But teammates began calling him "The Unnatural," an affectionate reference to slugger Roy Hobbs in the film "The Natural," and on the night of Aug.

17, nine weeks into the season, Koske pitched innings in relief to earn his first professional baseball victory. A few nights later he pitched 3 innings to save a game. He finished the season with a 1-4 record. Prone to Reflection "If I could satisfy my financial responsibilities to my family, it would be very easy to do this again," he said in the locker room after a late-season appearance. "It's hard because I think back about wovMa, shoulda, coulda.

All I know is at 35 I've lost velocity on my fastball and flexibility in my legs and I still throw the ball presentably. If I have to throw two or three innings, I do a pretty good job. "I've been called 'old man' ev erywhere I go. Sometimes I go, 'Holy I'm only 35. I tell these guys when they get to be 35 I want them to go out and do something where they extend themselves and think of me." Koske and his teammates were managed on the field by powerfully built, 6-foot-lV6, 220-pound Ed Olsen, 51.

The baseball coach at Grossmont Community College in San Diego, Olsen played 10 years in the minor leagues and managed minor league teams for the New York Mets in 1982 and the San Diego Padres in 1983. He would like to manage for an organization again. Walking Encyclopedia If he is denied, it will not be for a lack of knowledge. Olsen can name every major league batting champion and home run champion, stretching back to the 19th Century, and every member of the baseball Hall of Fame. The furniture in his home is largely made of baseball bats connected by wrought iron.

Bases serve as cushions. Four walls of one room are covered with autographed pictures. He owns 1,000 hard-cover baseball books, 400 autographed baseballs and baseball literature dating to 1877. It was a purchase of an 1878 baseball publication, he said, that caused his divorce. Olsen wrote a check for $75 to pay for the newspaper when he didn't have money in the bank to cover it.

He got the money, he said, ttlm- ROB SCHUMACHER Triplets' players Jerry Baker and Leon Baham wait out a lightning-caused power outage that forced a delay in game. but his wife left. "She was a nice woman," he said. "I just drove her up the wall with baseball." Olsen shared his mania for baseball easily with Leavitt, a lifetime fan whose Brentwood doorbell plays "Take Me Out to the Ball- game" and whose backyard contains a pitching machine and batting cage. Leavitt's thoroughly enjoyable summer included lots of pre-game batting and fielding practice with his team.

He ate hot dogs and drank beer minor league operations, said the Dodgers operate Class A teams in Bradenton, and Great Falls, and the chances of working with Leavitt in 1986 would be remote. But he added, "Down the road, who knows?" during games and discussed strategy and personnel with the manager afterward. Toward the end of the season he talked to the Dodgers about supplying the Triplets with players next season. Schweppe, the vice president of eminars for the Executive Woman will be held Mission Valley "Visibility, Credibility and Risk-Taking. Speaker: Janay Kruger, builder and developer.

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