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Attitude - hm p«u a oj 'l iw % 1-70 SERIES - MISSOURI HAS IT ALL! It’s what every Missouri citizen had dreamed of. What more could Missouri ask for in baseball, than an all Missouri World Series between the one hundred game winning St. Louis Cardinals and the Royals of Kansas City!? St. Louis in 5 games said many people, and it was no question, they were the favorite team to win. The World Series rules affected the Royals. The rule was no DH, which perched Hal McCrae on the bench for the seven game series. The Cards were affected also, not by the rules, by injury. In the playoffs against the Dodgers, a tarpolian rolled up on base stealing, lead-off leftfielder, Vince Cole- man. The National League Rookie of the year limped in the dug-out for the series. With the Cardinals up three games to two on the Royals, the Cards lost their poise. Kansas City squeezed out a ninth inning rally in game six to win and moved into game 7 where the two aces met, John Tudor V. S. Bret Saberhagan. The Cards, embarrassed and disgust- ed, lost it all. Joaquin Andujar and Whitey Herzog were ejected and John Tudor hurt his hand by punching an electric fan on his way to the showers. The Royals were Series champs by an embarrassing score of 11-0. They wTere the upset team of 1985 but they knew' they w'ere the tops all the way! Steven Patrick: (Sophomore) “Good series. But disappointing at the Cardinals. Hitting was awful, .160 or .170. Pitching was okay but the Royals just played better.” Patty Farris: (Junior) “I wish the Cardi- nals would have won. It was a good series of games but, that game that the umpire made the wrong call made me mad.” TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME COCAINE OR COKE: The pro baseball, basketball and foot- ball athletics have been hampered by a major trauma of drugs. Why have profes- sional athletes been convicted, fined and forced to quit playing ball for rehabilita- tion? The questions are unanswerable, the facts are not known, but commissioners and directors should try to do something to stop the addictions of the athletes. The 1985 baseball season was hamper- ed by the Pittsburgh trial, where several players w ere chosen to testify. This was supposed to be a real change in the drug addictions in sports, but we wait. Keith Hernandez had the main problem in major league baseball at one time. His addiction in 1983 and his problems in 1985-86 are one on the rise again. The questions may never be answered by the major leagues and the users. Troy Bonnctt: (Freshman) “Kinda dumb. I don’t think you should use drugs in sports. It takes away from playing your best. It hurts you in the long run too.” The Series spirit spread through New Bloomfield High School in a clash of some Bryan Kempker: (Senior) “They shouldn’t have it at all. I don’t think people should dope themselves up so they can play.” of the best Cardinal and Royal fans like Vince Settle and Lisa Hill. Todd McMahan: (Sophomore) “I guess they’re okay! My sister has two of them.” CABBAGE PATCH KIDS The craze hit the department stores with surprising ease and the parents with disgusting apathy. The little pudged face dolls with the birth certificate, wardrobe, and the branded name on the rump, won the hearts of millions of hopeful children of all ages. Every kid in the United States wanted their own adopted Cabbage Patch Kid. Every Cabbage Patch kid wras differ- ent in a certain way and the kids who got a doll, now had a different feeling. The dolls weren’t easy to get. When Christmas pulled around the corner in 1985, the parents all had that look in their eye that they would not disappoint their lovely children. The parents were deter- mined to get a Cabbage Patch Doll for their child at no price. The parents all packed in a corner of the department store while desk clerks passed them out to disgusted parents. Then the fights began, everything from angry families who didn’t get the doll for their little one. The dolls w’ere going for over $100 a piece for an original. Now- the prices have calmed to a flat $40 and the business markets say that the Cabbage Patch Kids are one of the highest money making products of 1985. The kids will never let their Cabbage Patch Kids out of their hands and the Cabbage Patch craze goes on until they do. Leigh Underwood: (Sophomore) “I think they’re neat mascots. Think they’re ugly, so ugly, they’re cute. They’re too expensive.”