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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ When the Los Angeles
Dodgers took the field Tuesday for their home
opener, something other than baseball weighed on
the minds of some of the players.
About a mile away from Dodger Stadium,
the jury in the Rodney King civil rights case delib
erated.
And sitting behind home plate was Rodney
King, an invited guest of outfielders Danyl Straw
berry and Eric Davis. Photographers were shooed
away when they approached King, who left the
game during the eighth inning.
"With the situation that's going down, the
verdict and everything, it's good to keep it low-key.
He doesn't need any more attention. He's got
lough attention across the world,** Strawberry said
after the game.
"You like to see a guy enjoy his life. He*ll
come out in public, feel relaxed, and not feel so
tensed up about everything," Strawberry said.
Davis said he met King several months ago -
through a friend, former Los Angeles Rams player
Ron Jessie.
"He's a Dodger fan just like everybody else,"
Davis said, adding they talk baseball and that, some
times, he offers King encouragement
"Everybody has some problems in their life,
but I told him that's behind him and he's got to focus
on going on with his life" ? not to be remembered as
somebody who got beat up, but somebody who had
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"Parkland JV's Hold"
4-1 Conference Record
By DEBY JO FERGUSON
Chronicle Sports Writer
Parkland JV Mustangs were hot on the field as they defeated West
Forsyth on Tuesday, April 13 with a final score of 9-1.
JV Mustang Harry Baylor successfully pitched his sixth straight win
holding a 6-0 record. Baylor went four innings with four strike-outs
against his opponents, three hits and giving up only one run to South
Rowan. *"
Relief pitcher, Johnny Williams controlled the mound for four
innings with four strike-outs, one walk and three hits.
It was success once again on Thursday as the JV Mustangs wiped
out Reynolds High School JV team with a 21-1 search and destroy mis
sion.
Displaying excellent talent, Jarrett Robin was 6 for 6 scoring four
runs. Pitcher, Harry Baylor went 3 for 5 with two runs; Kelly Bowen hit
2 for 3 with three runs; and Dale Fox was 2 for 5 with three rum;
Also scoring runs for Parkland's JV Mustangs were: Johnny
Williams, two runs; Jason Ketchie, two runs; Nate Church, two runs;
Jason Culler, two runs; and Brad Lanier, one run.
Things didn't go quite as easy for the JV Mustangs when they met
South Rowan. The Mustangs had to do some hustling for their &-3 victo
ry. But if hustling was what it took, then the JV Mustangs did it
Harry Baylor once again pitched a winning game. In five innings
Baylor pitched one hit and six strike-outs, with a save by relief pitcher
Johnny Williams, who pitched two innings giving up no runs, no hits,
with one walk and one strike -out.
During the first inning Dale Fox scored on Baylors single. South
Rowan failed to pass over home plate.
The second and third inning brought no success for either team with
the score remaining 1-0.
South Rowan scored two runs during the fourth inning on a reach
base by error and Goodmans single.This was the break that Rowan was
needing to take the lead.
With the JV Mustangs down by one things looked pretty critical by
now. It was during the fifth inning that Parkland came back with four
runs to take the lead.
Jarrett Robins walked on a single then Williams got on base and
Baylor hit a double with two RBI's. Baylor and Ketchie added two extra
runs.
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Harry Baylor at the plate is 6-0 at the pitchers mound for the JV mustangs.
J.V. Mustang Dale Fox skids for 1st base scoring 3 runs against
Reynolds .
J.V. Mustang Dug out was full of anticipation as each batter awaits
his turn at the plate.
J.V. Mustang awaits a slow sliding ball as West Forsyth reach first base
sqfely.
MILWAUKEE (AP) _ The Rev. Jesse Jackson,
accusing acting baseball commissioner Allan H. Selig
of refusing to discuss a plan for minority hiring, intends
to picket the Milwaukee Brewers.
Selig, owner of the Brewers, insists professional
baseball has the best equal -opportunity program in the
history of sports.
But Jackson's Rainbow Commission for Fairness
in Athletics wants to demonstrate during a Brewers
game, probably "within the next couple of weeks,"
coalition spokeswoman Lisa Simms said Friday.
Jackson accuses Selig of not working with his
organization on an affirmative-action employment plan.
Jackson said in a statement that a study in Febru
ary showed the Brewers had only seven minority people
among 76 full-time front-office positions.
"Bud Selig and major league baseball refused to
collaborate with us on such a plan," Jackson said.
"Thus, the next site of action will be in Milwaukee, and
that will come real soon."
"I have had a lot of conversations with the Rev.
Jackson," Selig said. "I believe, as does major league
baseball as a whole, that we have introduced the most
comprehensive equal opportunity plan in the history of
sports. It is being implemented."
"The Brewers have been sensitive to the issue.
We are making progress and continue to make progress.
That is all I have to say," Selig said.
Jackson's group was established last fall follow
ing protests against ethnic slurs by Marge Schott, owner
of the Cincinnati Reds, who was suspended for a year
and fined $25,000 for her remarks.
The Brewers open their home season Monday
against the California Angels.
Jackson's Group Plans to Picket Game
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' all Fan Scores Long Shot
JU. (AP) _ No NBA agents
Thursday, but everyone
BLC.
came calling
else did. . [
The $5-an-hour salesman was celebrating Ins
first day as a millionaire after flinging a basketball 75
feet into a Chicago Stadium net before a standing
room-only crowd that bad come to see the Bulls play
Miami.
But Calhoun ended up being the star.
"I didn't get any sleep last night/' he said
Thursday as he joined family and friends in Bloom
ington. "My heart was beating too fast'*
The salesman and part-time student had one try
to hit the shot from the opposite foul line _ three-quar
ters the length of the basketball court
One try was-all it took.
thought it was going in when it left my
hands," lie recalled as he celebrated with his parents,
both janitors, at Illinois State University, where his
motherwort?^ ^ ?
"I just wanted to get a good shot off," he said.
"I'm still shook up and shocked and everything
else," said Calhoun's father, Homer Calhoun, 50, who
watched Ids son's shot on TV. "I had a fit! I never
dreamed of anything like that"
Calhoun's family repotted non-stop calls from
media and well-wishers. His employer ordered pas
tries and planned a weekend promotion to congratulate
him.
"It's just fantastic," Calhoun's boss, Ron
Koehler. said. "Don's an outstanding individual.
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