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Co TT AT From page 25 excellent league in Scugog. And game times for baseball: SHL Hockey starting in fow memories came to mind. . Above all else, the SBHL is an 6:30 p.m. VanWarld Sharks vs. . Be sure to have your This was the 19th season of the important part of Scugog Harrison Blazers - North registration in, to be part of the SHL and we saw tlie addition of 1°"PShip's bv alow er, Uda Baath iol fo 8:00 p.m. Compton Comets ve. ; township residents the oy who have enjoyed this Fitzgerald Clippers - North ty to participate. The ft Io yaar . ny JSGd J <3) Chargers had a tough the.04-95 season just a 8:00 p.m. Crandell's Gamblers in the but few short months away, league vs. Monsma Chargers - South proved to be "formidable foes" in Members are reminded of the diamond The Bowmanville Eagles have the playoff season! Annual Banquet and Awards 9:30 p.m. Pineridge Phantoms won the first game in their best A fow player ratings are to be Night on Saturday May 7, 1904 vs. J & D Hawks - North of seven Ontatio Junior C semi adjusted for next season, but all. ° the Latcham Center, and the diamond final series against Rockton. in-all the league enjoyed parity popular Hockey/Ball -30 p.m. Taylor Aces va. Pizza playing on home ice Sunday on all teams. The executive IoUrnament on May 27-28 t Devils - South diamond night, Eaglée romped to a fairly members, although often sponsored by the Port Perry Have a great and we vineing 4-1 victory. ' Auto Glass Team. Please take look forward to another season of criticized, have maintained an note of the following May 27 att k a player's season but not the distance he's come to play or the motivation he has to go further. In that respect, the stats don't serve Rick Holifield well. He's a 24-year-old outfielder who caught eyes in his first Toronto Blue Jays training camp. He's now been sent to the buses of the Southem League but there's every reason to think he'll be back some day. Holifield has already spent six ysars in the minor leagues and, until last season, his statistics suggested he'd bogged down. For three straight summers he tolled in Myrtle Beach of the South Atlantic League without moving up. His average was low and he got little recognition as others, who tumed pro later, caught and passed him. But really it's Rick who's been catching up. : When the Blue Jays made him the 550th pick of the 1088 free- agent draft, Holifield had played only 25 games of prganized baseball, Prior to that he'd never had a"chance. You see, Rick grew up in New York's Bronx, a city within a city so foreign to most of us from Gander to Goodsoil that it might as well be Mars. He could play a mean game of stickball but gloves and bats were 100 rich. There ware lots of things for a kid to get into but baseball wasn'i.one of them. "If | went back to the Bronx the chances of me getting involved in drugs or getting in trouble and ending up In jail would be pretty high," he said while reflecting on the harsh reality of the world he's left behind. "That's why | want fo make the major leagues." That Rick has a shot at the majors happened quite accidentally when he had a chance to go to high school in California. * went out with a friend'io his practice," explained Molifield, gazing into the outfield at Skydome during a Blue Jay' exhibition stop. "We were playing caich and started to see who could throw fhe hardest and the coach saw me and put me in uniform. | pliched some games and hit real well and a scout happened to see me. Typical of the Blue Jays, thay drafied an athlete, not a polished player, and didn't have big trouble signing Holifield. "| really wanted an education but | knew my parents couldn't afford to send me to college. | was hoping for & scholarship but | was afraid the offer of & pro contract might not come again so | signed with dhe Jays. The expression 'Don't spenddt all in ore place' was made for my contract." While the Jays didn't spend much money, they invested thme and tutoring. And after treading water in Myrtle Bapch while learning the game, Holifleld came alive last summer and became the first'player in 37 years to hit 20 horhers and steal 30 buses in the Florida State League. That's what got him an invitation to the Jays' camp. He made an impression and plaps fo be back. "I can look after myself all right but more than anything else, if | can make the big leagues, I'l be able 10 look after my family back in the Bronx." Now there's a player we might not begrudge a million-dollar contract. 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