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r Former coach Rabb remains active, in baseball By DAVID THOMPSON Walter Rabb may have retired from active baseball coaching duty in 1977 after 31 years at UNC, but to say he is now inactive could not be further from the truth. "I've never been one to stay on my butt," Rabb said "As long as my health is good, I won't slow down." Rabb's hobbies include hunting, fishing, -traveling and carpentry. But baseball con tinues to play an important part in his life, as he now serves as Commissioner of the North State College Baseball league. Rabb said the job would not take up too much of his time. His main functions are establishing rules, helping to form a sched ule committee, and planning for the league tournament (to be held today through Satur day at Campbell University). Nevertheless, Rabb is high on the summer league's value. "I think it has met its objectives," he said. "It gives a chance to develop young players, gives a coach the opportunity to move per sonnel and ifs better to keep a club to gether. Ifs also ridiculous for these facilities to be lying idle all summer." For the first time in the league's history, only Division I schools are participating. At though schools like N.C. Wesleyan and Pem broke, who helped the league establish itself in its early years, were dropped, the move al lowed an important addition in N.C. State. "State always declined to play with Divi sion II teams," Rabb said. "There was a question of NCAA teams participating under NCAA rules. The other athletic directors felt the league" might not survive without the move to Division I." Rabb said the league always operated under local club rule, which allowed the athletes to participate as long as they did not stay overnight on road trips. The ball players must either be in summer school or working while playing in t:he summer league, he said. ' Rabb said he would like to see an eight team league. Wake Forest and UNC-Char-lotte are now beginning to show some in terest in joining the league, he said. "There has been some demonstration of interest by Wake Forest UNC-Charlotte has sat in on some organizational meetings, but thty have a young coach who feels they are not ready to participate just yet," he said. "Everyone except UNC js' "drawing well," he said. "We always had a pretty .good fol lowing, but With the loss of pitchers and our inexperience, ifs just been a tough break." Rabb and UNC English professor Louis Rubin, who serves as the league's vice president also helped organize the Central Carolina Babe Ruth League, a high-school league, a few years back Although they no longer run that league, Rabb and Rubin re main on the board of directors. - Throughout the years, baseball has chang ed, like almost everything else. Rabb said he had noticed some differences. ' "the biggest differences are in schedul ing" he said. "We used to be limited by con ference and University rules to 22-24 games. Now they play 45-4& The availability of transportation has been the same in all sports." Recruiting budgets is another change. "We had very little scholarship money in earlier days. The boys were happy to take a part-time job. Now we are in a better posi tion to recruit" he said. The improvement in physical facilities has directly affected Rabb, with the building of Cary Boshamer Stadium, considered by many to be one of the finest ballparks around. TO FUMBLEIVEEID) CYCLE ( X BICYCLE CLOSE-OUT SPECIALS JJ 152 E. Llain Street, Carrboro, C37-4074 VZZD 1 e s ' CUP THIS COUPOiJ - My Ouu 8 B e : fit. I e i a i r EAE3A1J1 f..ATi::iI3 $2.3 'TILL PM KOU.-rZl. ALL SCSIIHS' I STARTS TC3;"G Derby S&ro 1 8 8' c 8 ' AMV SALAD THIS COUPON GOOD FOR 302 off on any SALAD at all stores in Chapol Hill, Cary and Raleigh. . Good through 72031 Not good with cny ether offer 3 she is 15. he is 17. brooke shields martin hewitt ED A UMiVCRSAL 2:43 '4:53 7:15 !fi:C3 to i:ild oven week A " DOffT YOU WISH r ti, YCXJ WERE ARTHUR? I f Dudley toore-Liza MinnelU a p:C3 : 7:C3 C.C3 V."" .- Sun.-lhur3. 10:30-2 cm Fri. & ZzX. 10:30-3 arn : .132 E. Fran!Jn EL C 37-5400 .Lj ra era era ca ca sa ea es ta ea en ss sa i 8 I 8 1 .0 1 8 1 ft ALL .! S 1 ! LACT CAY M:-i t:n- ti 7:13 E:13 STArrra tc,-C"0v "We no longer have to play with a bench and a bucket of water," he said. "This is about as good a facility as any in the coun try. We wouldn't be able to organize this summer league without this facility." Rabb said he felt the players also had .changed. "They're more affluent and sophisticated now," he said. "Ifs not as much fun for them to go on road trips as it was for the earlier players. They've already been everywhere, anyway.""- Rabb called the major league baseball strike an "exercise in greed by players and management" "A lot of feeling for the game was lost when single owners who were really in terested in the game dropped out," he said. "Now corporations and groups are using ownership as a tax writeoff. "I hate to see them go the whole season on strike," he said. "I don't see how anybody could gain from it. It won't lose the oldtime fans, but it may lose a whole generation of young fans. You have to keep the fans corrh ing along." Baseball may be different in some ways now, but Walter Rabb is not Fortunately, some things just never change. ..; i-v'AV'-v -, ''t'.t j y ' I 1 M. , I 2MK.VO! Hm TOFBttrmcour ItM7 CAet! xr v. mwshb foevax BUT HEM RiMJ5&, FtW v OmfuF tMS i ISM 2W IXHCWHMraj MIST fm.. I KAUV DO. a CAN! Be FAS? StiAHO ifraAtJft'SMJtA: ll i a-? . r- IttW'JSC.MIKS. 6SA0U1CTAIA TDuvTttm.asK. 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