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Simrlav Am-il 1Q IOOO SPORTS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution '-mmmMj I 177 WW WWW SUNDAY BY THE NUMBERS LIKE FATHERS, LIKE SONS LOST AND FOUND TRIVIAL PURSUIT Mark Wohlers leaves the Atlanta Braves with the second-most saves in franchise history, ranking behind Gene Garber. Here are the Braves' top five in saves: Pitcher Years Saves Gene Garber 1978-87 141 Mark Wohlers 1991-99 112 Cecil Upshaw 1966-73 78 Rick Camp 1976-85 57 Mike Stanton 1989-95 55 SPORTS 11TRH Who holds the Atlanta Braves record for career stolen bases? (Answer beneath The Vent) Familiar baseball names I abound in the South Atlantic League this season. Three players in the Class A league have famous fathers. I Felipe Alou Jr. is an outfielder for Charleston, W.Va., Tim Raines Jr.

an outfielder for Delmarva and I Pedro Guerrero Jr. a second base- man for Savannah. Cris Carpenter, a former baseball and football standout at Georgia who pitched eight seasons in the major leagues, is an assistant coach at Gainesville High School, his alma mater. The Red Elephants have won three Class AA state titles in a row. jum Garberln I98S SoundOff SPORTS ACROSS GEORGIA zP The Vent It was appropiate that Kenny Rogers sang at the Hank Aaron Celebration at Turner Field.

It's been 25 years since either ti k. 1 -v 1 i 1 one of them had a big hit. Thank you, Mark Wohlers. Goodbye and good luck. Wohlers tried, but time to go Mark Wohlers is a proud man and a fierce competitor.

The last thing he wants is for the media and the fans to feel sorry for him. Athletes don't want pity. They want to be able to compete at the highest level. Unfortunately, Mark won't be able to do that as a Brave. There aren't enough sports psychologists in Atlanta to solve his pitching problems.

Perhaps he'll find his confidence somewhere else. If he doesn't, it wasn't because he hadn't tried and that the fans hadn't supported him. Jerry Schwartz, Chamblee Racing can be a bargain Yes, I agree that some ticket prices can be expensive, but not all of them. If you just want to see good racing, and not the Winston Cup Series, then there are several other options. You could see a Busch series race for a little less, or you could go the Lanier National Speedway and see a night of really good racing for a very inexpensive price.

John Kingsley, Alpharetta If thev reallv wanfprf tn honor Hank Aaron for his 'treat achievements, whv didn't name tne stadium after 1:1. I nun lire icy aimuiu iidvc iu 'start with? 'iThe Bulldogs' top signee has changed his mind. He figured if the coach can do it, why can't he? talk, it's hard to imagine him as the "voice" of anything. Why wasn't Ted at The Ted on Thursday night for Hank Aaron's special night? A 96 moh fastball is no pood DAVID TULIS Staff Memories of '96: Georgia Sports Hall of Fame curator Alan Robison displays Atlanta Olympic items. uirtain rises on Hlai State sports shrine at last is opening unless you can throw it over the plate.

People who think Vince i Dooley doesn't want Georgia to have an exceptional basketball team must not have been born when he hired Tubby Smith four years ago. Does anyone else think fondy Johnson resembles Icha-bod Crane? (How could someone be a baseball fan and not be at Iturner Field to honor Hank Aaron? That stadium should lHave been overflowine. Gender Equity Project: Fairness in prep sports Are high school boys and girls treated equally on the playing field? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution needs your help in researching gender equity in high school sports. If you know of programs where progress has been made in assuring that both sexes have access to similar resources and opportunities, please get in touch. And if you know of Georgia high schools where the difference between boys and girls sports isn't so equitable, we want to hear about that, too.

All information is confidential and your name will not be used in our report without your permission. Here is how to contact us: Telephone: 404-222-8690. Internet: http:www.accessatlanta.com ajcgender E-mail: genderequityajc.com Mail: Gender Equity, co Sports Department, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, P.O. Box 4689, Atlanta, Ga. 30302 By Guy Curtright STAFF WRITER Macon Location: Off I-1 6 in downtown Macon across Martin Luther King Boulevard from the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

Grand opening: 10 a.m. Saturday, with free museum admission. 1999 inductions: Eight new members including former Atlanta Falcon Jeff Van Note and Olympian Antonio McKay will be inducted at a black-tie dinner Friday night. Other inductees are Norman Faircloth, Catherine Hardy-Lavender, Clarence Scott, Danny Yates III, D.T. Bell and B.T.

Harvey. Regular hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and I -5 p.m. Sunday. Normal admission: $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and students with ID, $3.50 for youths ages 6-1 6 and free for children 5 and under.

Information: 9 1 2-752-1 585. tock cars are known to go airborne occasionally, but not usually this high. On the second level of the soon-to-open Georgia Sports Hall of Fame rests Bill Elliott's No. 94 Ford Taurus. That makes Elliott, the first driver to win NASCAR's Winston Million, the only one of the 293 Georgia Sports Hall of Fame members with his car enshrined.

TODAY ON THE AIR i Chipper Jones needs to hold loff on the bubble-gum blowing while Hank Aaron is being The Arizona Diamond-ibacks' uniform is the worst of all major-league baseball. Golf isn't a sport It is a dis-Jse. Seems like the Hawks play ilike a Western movie, "The 'Good, the Bad and the Ugly." hammering Hank Aaron Should be called 'Toolbox Hank," because he had a "whole lot more baseball than iust a hammer. being dull," Knierim said. "Ours will be anything but that.

That's why we are calling it an interactive museum." In addition to learning about Georgia sports heroes from Bobby Jones and Ty Cobb to Hank Aaron and Wyomia Tyus, younger visitors will have plenty to keep them busy. They will be able to shoot baskets from a wheelchair like a Para-lympian or experience the sensation of speeding along a NASCAR track. Sure to be popular with all ages is the museum's on-air broadcast booth. You will be able to hear the broadcast of great plays in Georgia history, including Aaron's 715th homer and Buck Belue's pass to Lindsay Scott, and then make your own call. All aspects of Georgia sports are represented in the museum, from the 1996 Olympic and Paralympic Games to high school sports.

The more unusual the item the better, according to curator Robison, who will have on display the bow tie Savannah native Mills Lane wore when he refereed the Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson "bite fight." In the extensive college section will be an exhibit on the state's four Heisman Trophy winners Georgia's Frank Sink-wich and Herschel Walker (Wrights-ville), South Carolina's George Rogers (Duluth) and Florida State's Charlie Ward (Thomas ville). Their jerseys will be on display, as well as Sinkwich's Heisman Trophy, on temporary loan from the University of Georgia. The pro section includes displays on not only the Braves, Falcons and Hawks but also the Negro leagues and minor-league baseball. The 205-seat theater was designed to evoke Atlanta's old Ponce de Leon Park. But the focus of the museum is the Hall of Fame corridor, with individual touch-screen kiosks for each inductee.

"Almost everyone knows about Dale Murphy or Phil Niekro, but we want to tell the inspiring stories of the others that are also in the Hall of Fame," Knierim said. "Sport truly can teach valuable lessons about life." E-mail: gcurtrightajc.com 'Atlanta 7 "I'm sure one of the first questions we'll get is, 'How did you get that car in museum curator Alan Robison said. "It wasn't easy." But removing a window and lifting a stock car through The Journal-Constitution's sports talk show now airs from 8 to 1 0 p.m. each Sunday on WSB-AM (750). Regular co-hosts are Norman Arey and Steve Getty.

Call 404-872-0750 or I GEORGIA f4 Every year, the golfing Mas- of the state-appointed Hall of Fame Authority in a surprise move by Gov. Zell Miller shortly after the groundbreaking in 1997, and he will attend the grand opening as a Hall of Fame member only. Bowers, 77, says he was "devastated" by the move and blames politics for his ouster. "I can't believe they would treat anyone like this," he said. The Hall of Fame also will open without the memorabilia of noted Atlanta sports collector Joe Gerson, a longtime Hall of Fame supporter who died in late 1996.

Angered that the museum would be built in Macon rather than Atlanta, Gerson stipulated in his will that none of the items in his collection would go to the Hall of Fame. "There are a lot of things we wish we had," executive director Alice Knierim acknowledged. "But we are very thankful for all the items we do have, and I'm sure a lot more will come in, once we are open. Everyone has been very generous." Knierim, a former English professor at Kennesaw State, joined the Hall of Fame nine months ago from the Alabama Department of Archives and History as a replacement for Med Park. She is determined to make the museum something special.

Halls of fame "are often thought of as with a crane is nothing compared with some of the obstacles the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame begun in 1956 has faced in securing a permanent home. What began as a dream more than 20 years ago will become a reality next weekend, without two of the Hall of Fame's biggest backers and amid continued questions about the need for a state-funded $8.3 million sports museum and its location. The red-brick building with green roof in downtown Macon is the largest state sports hall of fame, but it will not be self-supporting, even if it draws its eventual goal of more than 100,000 visitors per year. The museum is in Macon, rather than Atlanta, as originally proposed, primarily because of the efforts of retired Macon Telegraph sports editor Harley Bowers. He got Macon to donate land and lobbied the Legislature to approve the move.

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WCWN(MOAM) Georgia Sports Hall of Fame: The center's museum is scheduled to open next weekend. www.aic.comlinks 1 NBA: Hawks at Washington, 7 p.m., WATL Women's goH: Chick-fil-A Charity Championship, Eagles7 Landing, ESPN2. Saturday Baseball: Braves at Florida, 7:05 p.m., College baseball: Georgia Southern at Georgia, 7 p.m.; Mercer at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m. Wednesday Baseball: Braves at Los Angeles, 1 0:35 p.m., Fox Sports Net South. College baseball: Georgia Southern at Georgia, 4 p.m.

Thursday NBA: Celtics vs. Hawks at Georgia Tech, 7:30 p.m. Friday Baseball: Braves at Florida, 7:05 p.m., TBS. College baseball: Vanderbilt at Georgia, 7 p.m. Today Auto racing: Grand Prix at Road Atlanta, 2 p.m.

Baseball: Braves at Colorado, 3:05 p.m., TBS. College baseball: Wake Forest at Georgia Tech, 4 p.m., Fox Sports Net South. Monday Baseball: Braves at Los Angeles, 1 0: 1 0 p.m., WUPA. Tuesday Baseball: Braves at Los Angeles, 1 0: 1 0 p.m., TBS. NBA: Hawks at Toronto, 7 p.m., Fox Sports Net South.

'AST answer Jerry Royster has the Atlanta record with 174, but it i probably will be surpassed by Otis Nixon this season. Nixon iwent into the season with 160 JstealsasaBravje. TBS. College baseball: Vanderbilt at Georgia, 2 p.m. Soccer: Silverbacks at Charleston, 7:30 p.m.

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