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B6 Fnaay 10 1995 News Record Baseball NFL Lee wants longer stay Former Red failed to bat in first visit to Three Rivers Exhibition glance By Kevin Roberts Staff writer SARASOTA, Fla: If the replacements head north as expected, it will be Terry Lee's second visit to Three Rivers Stadium. This time he might even get to bat Lee. who has three home runs this spring a i has 25 at-bats in the major leagues. Nineteen of those came in a September call-up in 1990 with the Cincinnati Reds. Lee was added to the post season roster when the Reds beat the Pirates in the National League playoffs and the Oakland Athletics in the World Series.

But he never got to bat "I was on deck in the World Series, to pinch hit," Lee said. "Eric Davis was batting with two outs, and crushed a ball, but Carney Lanslord made a great play and threw him out" "The next inning, I wasn't sure if I should go back out there, and by the time I asked. Hal Morris was going up. I've often wondered why I didn't just grab a bat and go out there. Maybe Lou (Pinella.

the manager) would have let me stay." Lee got a ring and a World Series share. This year, he gets what every Jordan pressured by strike By Kevin Roberts Staff writer SARASOTA, If Michael Jordan does abandon baseball, it will likely be because he has had too much of the strike, not because he was striking out too much. The White Sox spent Thursday fending off rumors that Jordan's brief foray into professional baseball ended last week when he cleared out his locker and left camp. Jordan has been working out with the Chicago Bulls, the team he carried to the top of the NBA before quitting and trying baseball. "He made his decision last week." said White Sox outfielder Kerry Valrie, who played with Jordan at double-A Birmingham last year and described himself as a close friend.

"When he left, he was just happy to get on the plane. He was tired of dealing with the pressure. "We all feel a lot of pressure this spring. But being Michael Jordan, the pressure on him was much greater." Jordan's .202 average at Birmingham last year was the most highly- publicized minor-league season ever. Television stations ran updates with every at-bat, and newspapers daily carried his successes and failures.

This spring, as the biggest name in the often-bitter labor dispute, Jordan's actions and comments were watched closely. He often said he did not want to be a "focal point" in the debate, but because of his fame, he was. "I know he was getting an awful lot of pressure from the union," said White Sox general manager Ron Schueler. "Maybe I put pressure on him to "The Pirates gave me an opportunity and I wanted to play baseball." Terry Lee, first baseman replacement player in this clubhouse craves another chance. "This is an opportunity for everybody," Lee said.

"There are a lot of people here who didn't get a chance, for whatever reason. We've got to make up for that now" For Lee, that chance was supposed to come in 1987. He played basketball at Boise State but the Reds signed him as a free agent in 1982. He made a rather meteoric rise through the system, hitting 42 homers from 1983-85. But a broken left ankle the following spring derailed his career.

"In 1986,1 was taking ground balls next to Pete Rose and Tony Perez," Lee said. "You could kind of guess the Reds might need a first baseman pretry soon." But Lee sat out aH but 34 games of 1986 and all of 1987 while having four ankle operations. It was 1991 before he played 100 games in a season. Lee hit .304 wuh 19 homers at Nashville that year, but by the time he was healthy, Morris was entrenched ai first for the Reds. "Last year I got ahold of every team, and no one had room for me," Lee said.

"When this came around, I was still in pretty good shape and I thought Td see if I could get a job. "It wasn't something I even wrestled with, not for a second," Lee said. "1 love to play the game. The Pirates gave me an opportunity, and I wanted to play baseball" Before that, Lee had his own home improvement business back home in Eugene, Ore. "I love this game, but I know life has to go on," Lee said.

"If it doesn't work out, go home and continue with my life. It's kind of hard to walk away, because you get used to something that you've put 12 years of your life into. But this is a second chance, and 111 give it my best shot. If it doesn't work out, thaf OK" LosAngetas encage Coflorooo Utttred StUxJs Aflaraa Houston Ronda Qnonraffi SATI Ffsncoco San Diego Newftrt American League 6 5 5 3 3 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 1 0 i i i 2 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 5 5 5 PCL ssr 332 .600 571 sn .500 .429 .400 286 .286 167 .000 Green countdown gets closer to zero Unrtesaa Cftcago Oakland Toss Octree Pet. 7 2 778 4 2 667 4 2 .657 4 2 667 4 3 571 4 3 .571 4 4 .500 4 5 -444 2 3 .400 3 5 375 2 4 333 1 5 .167 0 0 .000 Sca-aqinfl games com sandngs.

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The Pirates Junior Ortiz, a former Pirate and improved to 3-4. a minor league player in the White On the downside, the Pirates Sox camp, left Thursday's game in made three errors. Tommy the third inning with a strained Mitchell made two, including an ritxage muscle. Ortiz swung at a one in the fourth inning when he Rob Parkins fastball and doubled ran into catcher Ed Rosado and over in pain. He is day-to-day, knocked loose a pop-up.

The Pirates have made 13 errors the most in the National www League. Five errors have come in First baseman Terry Lee has the last two games. seven hits in his past 10 at-bats The White Scouted the score in After starting the season 2-for-2, the sixth inning hits off- outfielder Nolan Lane was O-for-10 Brett Grebe. Grebe lowered his until singling in the sixth Tony ERA from 45.00 to 27.00, and got Beasley and Bobby Perna each the victory when Nolan Lane have four-game hitting streaks. Colorado 4, CaBoma 2 San Foresee 9, San ttegt 3 Cheago Cute 10.

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Green, an unrestricted free agent entering his sixth season, apparently is close to deciding among five teams bidding for his services. "All I can tell you is that no decision has been made." agent Drew Rosenhaus said late Thursday. a (today)." Green narrowed his list to the Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins and Green Bay Packers according to agent sources. He is looking for a five-year deal worth $12 minion mat includes a $3 million signing bonus. Rosenhaus already represents six Miami players, including defensive end Jeff Cross and cornerback J.B.

Brown, who had $1.175 million deals last season. The Steekrs recently made a mul- tryear offer worth more than the $2 million annual deal they offered Green in four- and five-year packages before ag season. Green also talked to the Los Angeles Raiders. Representatives of the teams involved in the Green negotiations said no agreement was reached Thursday. "If probably hard for some of the fans to understand, but your team is going to change from year to year," said Tom Donahoe, Steelers' director of football operations.

"When players are out there, they are free.to go. Free agency is an opportunity for die players who want to go. And if also an opportunity for the teams to look at some new players." 7 "It's probably hard for some of the fans to understand, but your team is going to change from year to year." Ton Green turned down the Steelers' fnai offer last season and signed the one-year deal for $1.434 million required as a franchise player. He also took out a $2.5 miffion insurance policy in case of injury. Green predicted there would be a high demand for his services during the offseason.

He stated several times the past two weeks that be did not expect to return to Pittsbugh. Last season, Green produced four touchdowns on 46 catches and made seven catches and scored a touchdown in two playoff games. Green has 24 touchdown catches in 62 career games including 53 starts. He has more career catches (198) and receiving yards (2,681) than any tight end in history. "Our intention is to get Eric and as many players back as Donahoe said our goal Our bottom line hasn't changed.

Whether something can be worked out or not remains to be seen. The bottom line is we go to training camp in Jury. We start to play in September. And by that time everything win have settled down. We will have our roster together, and be ready to go." The Steelers met with long-snapper Lance Johnson Thursday.

Johnson, a former Notre Dame hneman, is expected to be the last free agent to vish the Steelers until head coach Bill Cowher and Donahoe return from the NFL owners' meeting next week. NFL's popularity continues to soar NEW YORK: For the sixth consecutive season, the NFL set a paid attendance record in 1994. Paid attendance for all games in the league's 75th anniversary season was 18,010,264. the first time the league topped 18 million for a season. The total was an increase of 58,433 from the previous record of 17,951,831 set in 1993.

Regular-season attendance was 14,030,435, an average of 62,363 per game. The Kansas City Chiefs led the league in regular-season attendance with 626,612 for eight games. From wire repork BUl liai' un. He be asked to play (in replacement games) Schueler at first insisted all minor league players play in spring training or be sent home. Perhaps because of NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION WEEK School administrators and teachers are continuously searching for fresh educational instructional The most useful materials are those that matter to students, are relevant to their everyday lives, capture their attention and make them better readers.

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Teachers, win a trip to dan cleaned out his-lockcr March 2. The White Sox's official stance is that they know of no announcement, are planning no announcement Jordan was expected to arrive Saturday, when he and the rest of Chicago's minor league players are expected to report to camp. If he doesn't? "I would ffuess that he would be retired," Schueler said. For the White Sox. this is more of the same.

From Bo Jackson, to Jordan, to Carlton Fisk. to Oil Can Boyd, there is always something weird going on in their spring training camp. But if Jordan has turned his back on baseball, it will be just another case of the strike driving people from the game. And. i a many of them probably won't come back.

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