The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 27, 1980, Spring sports special 1980, Page Page 14, Image 14
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By Bruce Ritchie
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Baseball's "agony of defeat" ...
that's one experience that USC's
Tommy Williams and Bill Landrum
can tell you they don't need
to live twice.
Both players will return to the
Gamecocks' starting lineup after
missing last season with injuries.
They can tell you how it feels to
have high hopes for a season and of
the frustration felt when watching
their team play from the stands.
For Landrum and Williams, the
1979 season did not leave a,1
treasure of fond memories to tell
the grandchildren. '
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underway and both players will
attempt to make comebacks.'
Williams, who starts at second
base, has shown much of the skill,
and leadership he possessed a year
ago. Likewise, Landrum has
stepped in as the number-one
pitcher for the talented 1980 squad.
THE COMEBACK road isn't an
easy one. Often doubts and |
frustration enter the mind of the^
injured player as Williams explained.
"The first night after I got
operated on," he recalled, "all I
could do was lay there in the
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things. I didn't know if it would be
worth it to come back and try to
play again, but here I am."
Williams, a junior, suffered torn
ligaments in his leg during the fifth
game of the 1979 season. The
Richmond, Va., native held a
starting position on the team
before he was taken to the hospital
for treatment. The accident occurred
only weeks after a shoulder
operation sidelined Williams for
the rest of the season.
Hampered by a heavy cast,
Williams was tinahlf* to u/nrlf nut nt
all during the spring. Over the,
summer, however, he stayed in
Columbia and strengthened
himself on the weight machines at
Williams-Brice Stadium. "I mostly
had to work on getting some of the
flexibility back," he said. "I had to
do a lot of loosening up."
WHILE SIDELINED, Williams
said that he tried to stay out of the
way of the coaches and players.
"They would come to the hospital
some, or maybe I would sit down in
the dugout with them. They had an
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and it was important that they
finished it."
"The coaches said I could come
back," he added. "But they knew it
was a personal thing and that it is
/ up to the individual to want to
come back."
For Bill Landrum, missing the
1979 season meant that his last.
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out at second injured knee,
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year of eligibility would be
delayed. "I was disappointed not to
play," he said. 'We had a senior
ballclub last year, and I thought
last year was going to be THE
year. We had 13 seniors on the
team, and I wanted to be on the
field with them."
Landrum suffered a chipped and
dislocated knee before the team's
first game. The right-hander, who
graduated from Columbia's Spring
Valley High School, said that he
was disappointed not to be able to
pitch in Carolina's opener, but
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added that he never gave up hope
of coming back. "Coach Raines
would take me to his side and tell j
me to work on it (the knee injury)
over the summer and that there
would be a place for me to play
next year. Coach Raines was very
good for my morale."
AS THE 1979 SEASON I
progressed, Landrum said that he
and Williams tried to support their
team. "Me and 'Termite'..
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