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[Quinton Hebenstreit]

In1962, four summers after the Oklahoma City Indians of the Class AA Texas League left town, a triple-A franchise set up business at spanking new All Sports Stadium. Since the players were furnished by a major league expansion team, Houston, the initial 89ers were predictably pitiful, finishing 66-81.

But in 1963, Houston named a new 89er manager: Grady Hatton, who had played a dozen seasons for the Reds, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals and Orioles. Hatton gave 89er fans good times that haven't been equaled since: Pacific Coast League pennants in 1963 and '65 and a second-place finish in '64.

Hatton wasn't always happy with the talent furnished by Houston but got the most out of it. "Sometimes I thought the kids needed another year in double-A but they (the Astros) wanted to push them so we pushed them," said Hatton, who is an advance scouts for the San Francisco Giants. "And those kids always worked hard."

"My favorite team was that bunch we threw together in 1963," Hatton said. "It was kind of a harem scarem group. We ended up with the old left-hander from Stillwater, Tom Borland, and that crazy left-hander who won 18 games, George Brunet, and Jerry Nelson, who pitched a no-hitter.

Other oldtimers in the cast were Al Heist, Dave Roberts, Jim McDaniel, Jim Mahoney, Carroll Hardy, Ben Johnson, Connie Grob, Joe Grzenda and Russ Kemmerer. The young prospects included Dave Giusti, Glen Vaughan, George Williams and Joe Wooten.

Hatton said, "The best talent we had was in 1964, when we had Sonny Jackson, Rusty Staub and that bunch (Jimmy Wynn, John Bateman, Jim Beauchamp, Ernie Fazio and Giusti). It was a really young ballclub."

The 1965 outfit was awesome for its club all-time best record, 91-54, and spirit. Catcher John Bateman dubbed them "The a--kicking 89ers." Among the kickers were Jerry Grote, who moved from catcher to third base; Jackson, Fazio, Roberts, Chuck Harrison, Chris Zachary, Darrell Brandon, Jim Campbell, Mike White, Giusti, Heist, Mahoney and Weekly.

Hatton was set to return to the 89ers in 1966. But Paul Richards got fired as Astro general manager and Hatton was made both field and front office manager. "That's something I wasn't ready for," he said.

Hatton turned down some other major league managing offers. He likes what he's doing, but. . .Now 64, he said, "I was going to quit after last season but Mr. Lurie (Bob, San Francisco owner) won't let me. He keeps giving me raises."BIOG:NAME:

NEW YORK--I've been residing here all week and only one interesting thing has happened to me. I went down yesterday morning to the ABC TV building on 52nd street, and when I stepped into the revolving door from the street, Howard Cosell stepped in from the lobby. I never actually got to see Howard face-to-face as I spun into the lobby just as he spun out onto the street.

This tale serves as a parable for the Harvard basketball team, which has been in a revolving door all season. With 11 straight Ivy League games ahead, though, it's still not too late for the Crimson to cross the threshold to a successful season.

Tonight the Cagers play Cornell in Ithaca and on Saturday they disembark here to face the Columbia Lions. Cornell is only 5-11 and has lost all four of its league games, while Columbia, which was expected to challenge Penn for the League title this year, is in the middle of its worst slump in three years. So if the Crimson is ever going to exit from its revolving door, this could be the weekend.

Morningside Heights has been in mourning all week over the sudden and inexplicable demise of the Lions. Columbia had its "big four" of Ricky Free, Juan Mitchell, Shane Cotner, and all-time assist leader Alton Byrd returning for the third year in a row. They had played exhilarating ball last year on their way to winning 13 of their last 15 games. The league race came down to a harem scarem finish with the Lions defeating Penn on the last weekend of the season and then losing to Princeton the next night to finish a game behind the Quakers.

This season they were expected to pick up right where they left off. At first, everything appeared to be going according to plan. The fast-breaking Lions jumped off to a 9-4 record and even blew out St. Johns, 90-77. Then came what they are billing here as the "lost weekend." After blitzing Cornell, 82-62, the Lions suffered back-to-back losses to Brown and Yale last weekend and have now been virtually erased from the Ivy League title picture.

All season long there had been whispers that popular first year coach Buddy Mahar was too easy going and, if anything, had a little too much rapport with his players. Mahar must have reached the same conclusion because he decided to crack down. He benched Byrd, Davie Fields and Free who had started every game for the last three years, for the first 11:49 of the Yale game. The trio was benched because they had been six minutes late to a team meeting earlier in the day.

After the loss, Byrd, the team captain, told a New York Post reporter that the team was riddled with dissension and the story broke the next day under a banner headline. Mahar and the rest of the Columbia team denied that there was any disharmony.

The drama reached Wagnerian proportions on Tuesday when the Lions faced Fordham in Morningside Heights. Mahar had been assistant to Tom Penders, who left Columbia at the end of last year to become head coach of the Fordham Rams. Penders was now returning for the first time to face the squad he had built from scratch.

Penders brought with him his 7-ft. Sudanese center Dud Malwal Tongal, whom he had previously hoped to bring to 116th and Broadway. The Columbia admissions office, however, felt Dud hadn't made enough progress in the English language course he was taking and rejected him, which increased Penders' disenchantment with what he perceived as a lack of administration support for the basketball program.

When Fordham held on the upset Columbia, 76-75, it was a personal vindication for Penders, who had been criticized for abandoning a potential Ivy championship team. After Fordham's win, the Post ran the headline "Troubled Columbia Dealt Death Blow" and the Columbia Spectator pronounced "Columbia Basketball Died Last Night."

Indeed, there is hardly a player on Fordham who could have made the Columbia team much less break into the starting line-up. Penders himself admits that his starting line-up consists of "five guys who play like they've got sprained ankles."

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Talking with a friend about a project management meeting he chaired recently, the overriding concern expressed by those involved was about overlapping deadlines, and one project ending and another beginning immediately.

To me there are different types of silence and all of them involve some form of noise. It is impossible to have pure silence; there is always a breeze; a buzzing bee; the wings of a bird; or a flitting thought that makes pure silence impossible. Even the act of mindfulness involves focusing on the here and now; the wind in the trees, the smell of cut grass, the heat of the sun to enable calm. If like me, you have a tiny squeak of tinnitus in an ear there will never be true silence.

But if we think of silence as a feeling rather than a sound it takes on an altogether different quality. In this sense it evokes calm, a quieter space to just be. This sort of silence is a free and yet increasingly scarce commodity in our harem scarem world. But when we harness silence there can be no doubt about its value to us mentally and physically.

We must create pockets of silence at work where we can calm our minds at the end of one project and refresh our creativity and focus for when the next project begins. The length of this silence should be significant; enough time to allow us to break from the pressure of endless video calls, email tennis, paper drafting, and deadline meeting. It will vary depending on the individual and the circumstance, but we need it as a good friend that visits regularly.

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