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1 PL a i i JS 1. Blue jays loon to iviayueny lur a uit 1 Blue Jays' staff, having won 13 times last summer to tie the all-time record for victories by a pitcher on behalf of a first-year expansion club. Lemanczyk, who struggled both as a starter and as a reliever in Detroit, pitched well for the Blue Jays again this spring, winning two while losing none with a 2.77 ERA to earn the Opening Day assignment. Toronto manager Roy Hartsfield thought his starting pitching was going to be a lot better overall this year, too. However, Jerry Garvin, who goes against Jim Slaton Saturday afternoon, was 0-1 with a 9.00 ERA, and Tom Underwood, who will oppose Jack Billingham Sunday, lost all three of his exhibition decisions, also allowing an average of nine earned runs per game.

Before the Blue Jays picked up Mayberry and Carty, Hartsfield was also concerned about the Blue Jays scoring runs. Now, however, the Toronto manager feels their offense is much more formidable. MAYBERRY'S PRODUCTION was decidedly down the last two years in Kansas City. And it's rumored the 6-foot-3, 220-pound first baseman from Detroit's Northwestern High School had fallen from favor with Royal manager Whitey Herzog following an incident in last fall's playoff against the New York Yankees. Besides, the Royals have another first baseman In phenom Clint Hurdle.

Meanwhile, Carty, who led the Indians in runs batted in during each of the past two seasons, became expendable when Cleveland obtained Willie Horton from the Texas Rangers this spring. Nevertheless, Mayberry knocked in 82 runs for the Royals last season while Carty accounted for 80 RBI in Cleveland. The best any of the Blue Jays could do was 64 RBI by Doug Ault and Ron Fairly. By JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sports Writer The losingest team in the American League in this spring's exhibition games will be on display at Tiger Stadium Thursday afternoon alongside the biggest winner. The Toronto Blue Jays, the worst team in all of big league baseball a year ago, showed little on the field this spring to indicate things are going to be different this time around.

However, the Blue Jays are hoping the recent acquisition of first baseman John Mayberry and designated hitter Rico Carty will make this spring's sorry 8-18 training camp record irrelevant. Mayberry, who was donated to Toronto by the Kansas City Royals on Monday, and Carty, who joined the Blue Jays earlier in a trade with Cleveland, will both be in the starting lineup Thursday when the Blue Jays face Mark Fidrych following the ceremonial first pitch from Gov. William Milli-ken to Mayor Coleman Young. ANOTHER FAMILIAR FACE, Dave Leman-czyk, who was one of the players the Tigers contributed to help get the Blue Jays started in business last season, will be on the mound for Toronto, facing his former teammates. The 27-year-old Lemanczyk is the ace of the pa fvf Odds don't favor Jays The odds are stacked against Toronto winning Thursday's opener.

The last time a Toronto team won a baseball game in Detroit was 88 years ago. May 31, 1890, to be exact. That's when the Toronto team of the old International League trounced the Tigers, 1 1-4. The Tigers made 1 3 errors and a journalist of the day wrote, "Detroit played like a bunch of school boys at recess." Last season the Blue Jays were 0-7 in Detroit. Free Press Photo by AU KAMUDA Third baseman Phil Mankowskl tried on his new uniform for Wednesday's workout and discovered his name had been misspelled and he's not even a rookie.

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"They all had good springs, and this way we can get some righthanded hitting in our lineup. Plus, by doing it this way, it should take some of the pressure off our young players. "Let's face it: Any manager would prefer to go with a set lineup if he had that kind of team," continued Houk. "But you've got to manage according to your personnel. "When I was with the Yankees and Casey Stengel was managing, he platooned because we had a lot of players who were good but young.

We've got that same type of team here now. "I don't like to platoon at second base and shortstop because It's better to have those two guys play with each other all the time. And in this case I'm not really platooning because we'll keep them together as units Whitaker with Trammell, and Wagner with Dillard. "I really thought by the time we came north I'd be able to choose between the two units," Houk admitted. "But I defy anyone who saw us in spring training to say one unit played better than the other down there.

They both deserve to play and doing it this way lets me take advantage of both units." ELSEWHERE, THERE WILL be no surprises in the Tigers' season-opening lineup Thursday. Jason Thompson, last summer's home run and RBI leader, will again be at first base. Steve Kemp will play leftfield and Ron LeFlore will be in center, with Rusty Staub appearing as the designated hitter. Aside from Fidrych, six of the Tigers' nine starters Kemp, Corcoran, LeFlore, Whitaker, Thompson and Staub all hit more than .300 in the spring. The trick now will be to keep that up.

"If we can get off good, if we can just keep playing the way we did in Florida, it'll be great," declared Kemp. "It would be great for the city and it would be great for the fans," Houk agreed. "And, naturally, any time you get off to a good start it's great for the team." LOU, ALAN WILL STARTfrompageip the more experienced Steve Dillard, while Trammell won out over Mark Wagner at shortstop as Ralph Houk decided to platoon the four inf ielders. "I mean, I'm surprised to be starting. I'm thrilled right now.

But I'm having a good time, too. "And I'm looking forward to having a good time all year. I want to win a whole lot of ball games this year. I'll tell you what, I'm going to get me a couple more RBIs tomorrow, too." TRAMMELL and Whitaker both admitted that when spring training began, starting on Opening Day was the furthest thing from their minds. All they wanted to do was make the team.

"I thought we had a good shot at that," said Trammell. "When they traded Tom Veryzer last winter I said to myself, Wow, they must really want me to play "I realize Mark (Wagner) had a real good spring, too. I'm happy just to be playing in half of the games this year. If I do that and I have a good year, and Mark has a good year, we'll be all right at shortstop." Coliseum stance kills A's move for this year SEATTLE (UPI) American League president Lee MacPhail said Wednesday the latest action by the Oakland Coliseum Board of Directors means there is no chance to move the Oakland A's to Denver this year if the board sticks to its decision. While MacPhail was flying from Denver to Seattle for Wednesday night's major league baseball opener, the Oakland Coliseum Board decided to terminate any further negotiations concerning the San Francisco Giants playing half their home games at Oakland.

"If what they're saying is a final position, It obviously keeps us from doing anything in the 1978 season," MacPhail said shortly after arriving in Seattle. The American League president said he would want to study the Oakland board decision before making any further comment. After two days at Denver, MacPhail said before departing he thought it would be possible for the A's to be transferred to Denver before the end of the season. Such a transfer after the start of the season would be a first in baseball history. Indians still one over limit TUCSON, Ariz.

(AP) The Cleveland Indians got within one player Wednesday of the 25-man roster limit by placing veteran pitcher Al Fitzmorris on the 21-day disabled list and sending utility infielder Dave Rosello to Class AAA affiliate Portland. Express explode in Flint, 8-0 FLINT The Detroit Express put on an offensive show for the Flint area soccer fans in a Wednesday night exhibition, burying the Flint All-Stars, 8-0, before about 5,000 fans at Atwood Stadium. Dave Shelton scored four goals of the North American Soccer League team, which opened its regular season with a 2-1 win over Tulsa last Sunday. Roberto De Oliveira, Roberto Arciniega, Gunther Shieb and Dave Bradford each scored once for the Express. The Express plays at Ft.

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