The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 228

inugiriuftin T1fl-yiiT)llayr-t rm-grnr 8D SUNDAY JANUARY 29 1989 THE MIAMI HERALD A BASEBALL REPORT mm Ml'tqnn A "Vns UM gets 2 bonus players 4f fc Jt ''w w- -O- y-- fkr cn -Yr Til fA' Is i L4 I- 4 nX r- Vi 1 1 JV i J' lvV wa nAMkii I 1 -I I 'H i 1 vt -uri V- 4 i Jf I "iW W-J i4 f- yV 7H Viera Dulom si home run in season-ending 2-1 loss to Stanford in the College World Senes After the World Series Viera join any organized summer baseball leagues something Fraser usually advises his returning players to do What Viera considered rest after a tiring season Fraser considered lack of interest before an important season In the resulting miscommunica-tion Fraser figured his starting center fielder was going pro and Viera became bitter because he lost some of his financial aid and register for school Viera entertained thoughts of transferring After a few personal meetings between player and coach Viera was allowed to rejoin the team his financial aid and registration problems resolved He worked out with local teammates during Christmas break and has been with the team since late December ready to said Viera who hit 269 last year with eight homers and 38 RBI I got back out here after all my problems it was really a great feeling" After the departure of Mike Fiore Frank Dominguez and Jorge Robles Dulom and Viera have become the only starters with more than one year of experience at UM thing that excites me about Dulom is his power" Fraser said runs well plays great defense and has an exceptionally strong arm hoping the two of them will have the senior years they are capable of By DAN LEBATARD Herald Writer long ago that Kirk Dulom would come home from an work at a West Kendall rollerskating center and suffer As he entered his house and glanced at his baseball pictures on the hallway walls he help but flash back to a not-so-distant past to a tune when the numerals 335 represented his batting average and not his minimum wage Kirk Dulom missed baseball long ago that John Viera would come home from an afternoon of University of Miami classes and wonder about his future He compared a time when he owned Mark Light center field (and part of left and right for that matter) to this time of indecision He would continue playing baseball that much he knew The only question was whether it would be at another university or in the minor leagues John Viera missed baseball Welcome home boys When the Hurricanes open the 1989 baseball season at 7:30 pm Friday against the University of Central Florida the names and are likely to be on Coach Ron starting lineup card Three months ago it seemed certain that come Friday neither Dulom nor Viera would be on mind much less his team Dulom a power-hitting third baseman who was dismissed from the team before last season because of academic problems is back with a new mind and body During two summer sessions and a fall semester he made up the 24 credit hours needed to regain eligibility He also kept in shape by playing in summer and fall baseball leagues and working out by himself at Columbus High School his alma mater want a championship ring real Dulom said out the way I did last year the way to end a college baseball career" Before taking his academic slide after the 1987 season Dulom hit 355 with nine home runs and 35 runs batted in as the starting third baseman Now as a fifth-year senior without a scholarship he says he can do better Having dropped 41 pounds since 1987 (down from 230 to 189) Dulom says he has a renewed commitment to the sciences of baseball and discipline story is a bit different The fourth-year senior from Miami Southridge High was just beginning to peak at the end of last season He went five for six with five RBI in an Atlantic Regional victory over James Madison and also hit a BOB EIGHMIE Miami Herald Staff Mike Pagliarulo gives batting tips to attentive fans at Dade-North Major leaguers give something back ByDANLEBATARD Herald Writer to be a slick fielder While W'estminster Christian Coach Rich Hofman the national high school coach of the year taught catching skills in the bullpen Lynch and McDowell took over the mound we do and say has a definite influence on kids and why we have to do things like said McDowell who lives in Stuart Fla during the off-season have to set examples We have good lives and this is a way to give something and one half-hour batting practice session Over by the batting cages Hrbek and Pagliarulo taught hitting and patiently answered questions ranging from it like to face Roger to do you hit a were all little kids Hrbek said In center field Bush who played at Carol City High and Dade-North went over the finer points of outfield play and hitting In the infield in front of Bush Foley (a Palmetto High graduate) and Harris (a Jack-son High graduate) gave tips on how START DRIVING NOW! We buy and sell US World Coins Pandas Eagles Nuggets Maple Leafs Treasure and Ancient Coins Vintage Wristwatches 8 Cold Diamond Jewelry fl Foreign Currency Exchange Fine Collectibles COUPE FULLY EQUIPPED SUNROOF FROM PCCS and NGC Market Maker Rare Coins THE PORSCHE COLLECTION Just for a moment forget the fame and fortune Just for a moment forget the 17-figure contracts Just for a moment cast aside the awe Just for a moment For a four-hour span on the baseball field of the Dade-North campus Saturday six major-league baseball players too big to get down in the dirt to show the 5-year-old how to properly field a grounder They too important to show the 16-year-old how to realign his hips when faced with a nasty 0-2 curve They too busy to joke around with the 34-year-old More than 1500 fans most of them clutching baseball gloves or baseball cards or both turned out to embrace major-league baseball Saturday at the Major-League Baseball Clinic And major-league baseball embraced right back certainly can remember going to Red Sox games when I was little and the great feeling I would get when a player would just come near said New York Yankee third baseman Mike Pagliarulo who flew into Miami specifically for the clinic know that I can make kids feel the same way I felt is as much a thrill for me as it is for the Pagliarulo who played at UM for two years joined Roger McDowell (New York Mets reliever) Tom Foley (Montreal Expos shortstop) Lenny Harris (Cincinnati Reds third baseman) Kent Hrbek (Minnesota Twins first baseman) and Randy Bush (Twins outfielder) in making a group of fans both big and small very happy For the 10th consecutive year former Chicago Cub and Met pitcher Ed Lynch now a law student at the Umversity of Miami also contributed instruction at the 10th annual clinic seen these guys on said Carlos Gomez 6 a T-Ball first baseman from Hialeah who attended the clinic with his grandfather learned how to hit and catch today It was After the players were introduced they went to different parts of the field The fans followed many of them sprinting and were treated to two half-hour clinical sessions two half-hour autograph sessions ggg Q2Q The Bakery Centre 3753BIBDBOLD IN DJLDE CALL BROWARD MIAMI OPEN 7 DAYS 448-4100 792-1111 Bematchof LI VS tickets! 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