Sunday, January 13, 2002
Baseball notebook
Paper says Selig should step down
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — The Star Tribune called on baseball commissioner Bud Selig to resign after revelations that his Milwaukee Brewers received a loan from a company owned by the family of Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad.
Noting that three former commissioners called the loan a possible conflict of interest, the newspaper, in a Saturday editorial, said, “It turns out that not only are Selig and Pohlad buddies, they were business partners in apparent violation of baseball's rules prohibiting secret loans among teams.”
Others also are calling for Selig to step down, including Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
The Star Tribune — the largest newspaper in Minnesota — reported earlier this week that in 1995 the Brewers received a $3 million loan from a company owned by the Pohlad family. Baseball prohibits teams and officials from “directly or indirectly” lending money to other teams and their officials.
RACISM:
Former manager Whitey Herzog said he believes Major League Baseball is sometimes guilty of reverse racism when it comes to hiring for management jobs, a newspaper reported Saturday.
“I do think that there's a lot of capable minorities,” Herzog said Friday at the podium of the annual Iowa Cubs FanFest luncheon, The Des Moines Register reported.
“But I do think today, the people that are really getting it stuck to them are guys like this guy over here because he isn't a minority,” Herzog was quoted as saying. The reference was to Iowa Cubs manager, Bruce Kimm, who is white.
Herzog, who led the St.Louis Cardinals to the 1982 World Series championship, said he hopes Kimm someday can manage a big league team.
“And the reason I say that: We are so intent in our country today that we must do some things strictly opposite of what our country was built upon,” Herzog was quoted as saying. “When our country was built, the best man always got the job. The most capable person was the guy. It didn't make any difference what color he was, it didn't make any difference if he was a minority.”
Herzog did not immediately return a phone message left at his home Saturday by The Associated Press.
Rich Levin, a spokesman for commissioner Bud Selig, said he has never heard complaints that baseball is involved in reverse racism.
“We try to be as inclusive as possible. We are very concerned about equal opportunity,” Levin said.
INDIANS:
Cleveland will play home series against their former second baseman Roberto Alomar and his new team, the New York Mets, and defending World Series champions Arizona Diamondbacks this season.
The Mets will come to Jacobs Field June 7-9 and the Diamondbacks are in Cleveland June 28-30, according to the schedule the Indians released Saturday.
It is the first time that the Indians will play teams from the National League West and East. They also will play Philadelphia at home and play at Colorado, Florida and Montreal in their interleague schedule this year.
TIGERS:
Catcher Mitch Meluskey agreed Saturday to a $345,000, one-year contract.
Meluskey, 28, missed the 2001 season after arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder.
Acquired in a six-player deal with Houston in December 2000, he hit .300 with 14 home runs and 69 RBIs with the Astros in 2000.
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