The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 35

Friday September 27 1 996 The Kansas City Star THE ROYALS Tisdale will add to his repertoire Ticket prices to remain Continued from D-1 By DICK KAEGEL and RANDY COVITZ 29 Cleveland 1:35 pm Ch62 980 AM Ctevetand Ctowtand 7:05 pm 7:05 pm 980AM 960AM Staff Writers Home game The Royals are holding the line on ticket prices for 1 997 No increases "Basically we wain iu give people every reason to come Cleveland at Kansas City WHENWHERE: 7:05 pm at Kauffman Stadium TVRADIO: No TV Glass gets a Royals bat-boyni-form to wear But there he draws the line He will not be out picking up bats he said TV deal set The Royals announced Thursday they have awarded their rights for both over-the-air and cable television to Prime Sports The agreement is for three yeatfc beginning in 1997 with an option for three more years Financial terms were not disclosed Prime will televise a record 80 Royals games in each of the three years including 50 over the air and 30 on cable An announcement regarding the local carrier for over-the-air telecasts is expected to be made within two weeks Prime Sports will become Fox Sports Rocky Mountain on Nov 1 and join the family of regional sports networks known as Fox Sports Net The network is carried by two cable systems in the Kansas City area TCI of Overland Park and Western Tech Fans can choose among 20- 40-and 81 -game seaso'n tickets The Royals also announced that the annual Kansas City Baseball Dinner will be resumed Friday Feb 7 at the Westin Crown Center hotel after a two-year absence Individual game tickets will go on sale the same day Glass to be in uniform David Glass says he'll probably be in a Royals uniform tonight No he's not the right-handed power hitter the club needs He just lost a bet Glass CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc as well as the Royals said that winners of an in-house sales contest will be at Kauffman Stadium as a reward for their efforts "We had a little wager on their performance in July" Glass said "We're going to have about 250 Wal-Mart management folks from all over the country descend on Kansas City for this game with the Indians 1 really hope it doesn't get rained out because they've really been looking forward to it" KMBZ (980 AM) PROBABLE STARTERS: Royals LHP Jose Rosado (7-6 310 ERA) vs RHP Orel Hershiser(15-8 412) SEASON SERIES: Indians lead 6-4 SCOUTING REPORT: The late-season trade for to the ballpark" said Mike Levy the Royals' vice president of marketing and communications "We don't want it to be unaffordable" Ticket prices will be: Club box $14 field box $13 plaza reserved $11 view level box $10 view level reserved $9 'and general admission $5 Those are the same prices that were in effect in 1994 except for general admission then $6 Parking will remain at $5 Levy said the Royals' average ticket price is $997 second lowest in the American League to the Minnesota Twins Highest average: $1977 in Toronto Season tickets for 1997 are available by calling (816) 921-2200 Hershiser our hunch was right" Some without tickets stopped by earlier in the evening and watched Tisdale perform during a sound check "I appreciate his musk" said Waymond King an acquaintance of Tisdale's when Tisdale played for the Indiana Pacers I'm a jazz buff His musk is a kind of a contemporary jazz but has some traditional beats as well" Brianna Britt called Tisdale's music "comforting I've got his CD and I didn't buy it because he was bouncing a ball" Tisdale's albums are instrumental though he does interject narrative that helps the listener understand his message Most of his songs have either a basketball theme such as "Inside Stuff or "Watch Me Play" or are inspired by his family Two of his favorite songs are "Gabrielle" about his youngest daughter and "Gina a tribute to his wife Regjna "It's a little more difficult instrumentally to tell a story" Tisdale said "I try to develop a hook line that everybody remembers "Doing music I've been able to express myself in a lot of ways that I have not been able to express myself through basketball or any other way I'm saying stuff through my music you can feel it" -Tisdale a son of a Tulsa Okla pastor learned to play the guitar left-handed as a youngster in the church choir and actually enjoyed music better than basketball as a pre-teen Once he began growing basketball became his passion but he never forget his infatuation with music t's relaxing" said Tisdale who is 6 feet 9 and 260 pounds and who has averaged 104 points and 19 minutes per game in his two seasons at Phoenix "It's no different than another athlete going out and playing golf still love the game of basketball and I love the art ofTnusic and I'm enjoying both" In fact Tisdale who begins his 11th NBA training camp next week plans a career in music after his basketball days end "I'm not ashamed to say that this is what I want to do after basketball" he said "A lot of players don't know what they want to do after basketball and that usually causes a lot of problems for them" Tisdale began sharing his talents with fellow NBA I)Iayers by performing at NBA All-Star weekends the ast few years and began jamming with others such as David Robinson Grant Hill Jerry Stackhouse and Cummings "f'A lot of NBA players want to be entertainers" he said "Some of them are doing it like Shaquille O'Neal "Terry Cummings and I have written songs together He's a great piano player a great song writer I'm looking to team with him in future projects and am doing an album with NBA players and women's basketball players too" Tisdale will take his show to Tulsa tonight and to Wichita on Saturday night Then it will be time to concentrate on basketball Kevin Seitzer gave the Indians a top No 2 hitter who could help move speedster Kenny Lofton around the bases Lofton has missed a couple of games because of a bruised left foot but could be available tonight Albert Belle remains the core of the attack Regardless of fan and media perception of him Belle produces His 143 RBls say so A sweep by Cleveland would give them 100 victories for the second straight season La Velle Neal III Brett Glass discuss ownership plans Continued from D-1 It makes you feel good but don't want to keep bringing these things up" Brett said "People keep bringing them up but I just wish they'd let it die until the Royals say the team's for sale and anybody interested can make a bid Hopefully at that time my parties will still be interested" As of two weeks ago Brett-sJtid his investors were still interested One main investor had looked -mto-buying another club and Brtl persuaded him to wait and stay: in the Royals' hunt Glass said he wants to holdsdff selling the club until after theijpjay ers and the owners sign a' hew Basic Agreement vmSH Brett said improving the qu8fi(y of the team is essential to rebuilding interest "Fans are coming to see a product on the field" he said "They're not going to come to see a lion run around and throw T-shirts at pep- i ii i i i i part of his organization? "I can't imagine anyone involved with Kansas City baseball that wouldn't want George involved with it" Glass said "He plays a role now and I can't imagine him not being here" However Glass said he has not talked to Brett about an alliance "I know he's involved with a group where he and his brother have other investors and if that group had the approach that they wanted to run the Royals and control the operation there would probably be little point in my being involved with it" Glass said Brett was asked whether he'd like to discuss a partnership with Glass "Not through you and the newspaper no" Brett said "If that's going to happen it's going to come from David and me visiting David hasn't been to a lot of games this summer and I haven't been to a lot of games this summer We really haven't crossed paths "When we do we talk about the ballclub we talk about Wal-Mart we talk about golf we talk about everything But we've never really talked about the possibility of a joint venture between the two of us" That doesn't sound as if a cooperative effort is pending Certainly Kansas City fans appear to want Brett to stay with the Royals Kauffman's plan of succession and rulings by the Internal Revenue Service The source would not reveal the identities of the parties at their request "I set out specifically with the charge from Ewing Kauffman No I to guarantee the team stays in Kansas City" Glass said "No 2 with stable local ownership preferable And No 3 to maximize the value of the team because the proceeds of the sale of the team go to charity and very worthwhile causes "I think having multiple bidders helps to maximize the value of the team I'm really delighted that George has an interest 1 think we will have a number of qualified bidders all of whom will have to be committed to have the team here" Glass said all potential bidders have been told the team would have to stay in Kansas City "I wouldn't rule out any possibility of any type of combinations or whatever when the time comes" Glass said Glass said he and his family alone are interested in the purchase Brett and his brother Bobby has a group of investors lined up Brett refused to identify his investors "None of your business" he said Would Glass like to have Brett White resigns as Boston coach HE WILL WORK IN KC: Former Royals player Frank White is resigning after three years as the Boston Red Sox first-base coach to work full time for Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Kansas City He said he would work in community relations and appear in television and radio advertisements It's a good opportunity for me to go back to Kansas City" said White who will complete the season with Boston "It's a good opportunity to take advantage of my name" White played for the Royals during 1973-90 winning eight Gold Gloves White said he might return to baseball "if the situation is right" BRAVES TO NAME NEW STADIUM FOR TED TURNER: The Atlanta Braves' new stadium will be named-for its owner not the team's best player ever The stadium will be named for longtime owner Ted Turner Turner Broadcasting System said Thursday ending speculation that it would be named for Hall of Famer Hank Aaron or that the name would be sold to a commercial sponsor The stadium was built for the Olympics and is being converted for use by the Braves beginning next season Braves President Stan Kasten said the organization will seek permission to name a nearby street for Aaron who hit 733 of his 755 homers for the Braves GREENWELL WON'T RETURN TO RED SOX: Outfielder Mike Greenwell said Thursday that he won't return next season as the role player that the Boston Red Sox want him to be PITCHERS SUSPENDED FOR ROLES IN BRAWL: Montreal pitcher Pedro Martinez was suspended Thursday for eight games and Philadelphia pitcher Mike Williams was suspended for six games for their roles In a bench-clearing brawl this week pie annougn mat neips KUm "We do not have a marquee er right now We have a pitel TheSter A AS CITY Kevin Appier who is a marauee Read more about the NBA career of Wayman Tisdale when you visit The Star's site at httpyAvwwkansascrtycom and click on Sports kansascitycom player once every five daysrThe other four days we need a player' that fans can identify with someone that will bring back memories of old Royals baseball" Staff writer Jeffrey Flanagan contributed to this story ALL CLOTHING mmm A A 1 Uk JH Vnfl flNB rhV MEN'S KID'S T-SHIRTS SHORTS jp JBi Spr'- PRICE ijfl HSfefek I wsBP''' Isa 1000 OF SHOES NOW ON SALE Every Clothing item Is NOW on SALE! 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