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Ex-Carolina outfielder
From Staff Reports
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prototype center fielder of the future. He was a fast, Bronx
native who could track down fly balls hit anywhere near him.
He sparked the Mets offense with his aggressive base
running. That center fielder was Lee Mazilli.
Today the Mets center fielder is faster and better offensively
and defensively, but the center fielder is former
Carolina player Mookie Wilson, not Mazilli.
The Mets had enough confidence in Wilson's ability as
starting center fielder that they traded Mazilli to the Texas
Rangers during spring training, and Wilson was given the
center field job. He hasn't disappointed the Mets.
Actually, Wilson showed what he could do during his rookie
year with the Mets in 1981. The 5-10 speedster batted 271
and finished seventh in Rookie of the Year voting in
the shortened season.
Wilson started off the 1982 season among the top 10 in the
league in hits and batting average. He has cooled off to a solid
.281 batting average, and he leads the team in stolen bases
(29) and runs scored (53).
Although Mets manager George Bamberger calls Wilson
the "perfecf'lead off hitter, he is probably anything but that.
Wilson rarely walks (only 20 times in 384 at bats) and is third
Chemcocks still No. 1;
Playoffs start Tuesday
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From Staff Reports Men's Poll
The South Carolina 1. S.C. Bookstore Chemcocks
Bookstore Chemcocks 2. Exterminators
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poll. 5. CSD Abends
The Chemcocks (6-0)
retained the top ranking Co-Rec
despite having the week off
from competition. 1. No'Bility
The Exterminators (8-0) 2 Leviathan
picked up four wins last 3. Ablolute Zerot
week. The team defeated
the Runnin' Rebels 5-4 and "?BS
11-6 and won two games by 5. ?) School NicoGuys
default from Summer
Skoal. moved up to the No. 3
Grad History (9-3), position, beating the fifthunranked
in last week's ranked J-School Nice Guys
poll, vaulted to the No. 3 9-0 and 12-1.
spot by beating the Sch- The Dogs (8-1-1) crept up
mecks 5-3 and 10-2. to fourth place with 7-6
Auxiliary Services (6-1-1), and 8-5 wins over the E-E
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CSD Abends (7-2-1) made ud bv that date
dropped one notch to the Teams that won 60 percent
No. 5 spot after splitting two or more of their games
games with the Corndogs, qualify for the playoffs.
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on the team in strikeouts with 58 behind sluggers Dave
Kingman and George Foster.
However, he is third on the team in RBI with 38, which is
quite a feat for a lead-off hitter.
Wilson is aware he needs to improve his on-base percentage
to become a more effective lead-off hitter. "I'm
willing to learn," the 26-year-old said. "When I get more
experience, the strikeouts will come down and the walks will
go up."
Defensively, the Mets are more than happy with Wilson's
performance in the outfield. "I think he can become another
Paul Blair," Bamberger said, referring to the former
defensive genius and perennial Gold Glove winner with the
Baltimore Orioles. "I think he's one of the finest center
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lienors in DaseDall right now, Bamberger said. "He just
outruns the ball."
Wilson received a scholarship to pitch for Spartanburg
Methodist Junior College after playing for BambergEhrhardt
High School. Two years later, he switched to center
field when he came to USC on a baseball scholarship.
In his first and only year as a Gamecock, Wilson and
current Chicago Cubs pitcher Randy Martz helped lead June
Raines' first USC ballclub to a second-place finish in the 1977
College World Series.
Wilson was signed by the Mets as a free agent the same
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from 1879-82, has a 3-1 record with one
save and a 1.59 ERA. He has two
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Johnson City, N.Y., has allowed only ""
24 hits in 39-plus innings, striking out ,v/"
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July, posting a 3-0 mark with a 1.03
ERA. Lubert also pitched 19 con- ;
secutive scoreless innings, including
performance came two weeks ago
when he tossed a one-hitter agaim-t
Greenwood. Former Gamococ
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League. Lubert is scheduled to pitch DAN GOGGINS,
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year and spent parts of four seasons in the minors. A natural
right-handed hitter, Wilson began switch - hitting during
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Wilson's ability to switch-hit made him more versatile and
valuable to the Mets, who called him up from the minor
leagues for the final weeks of the 1980 season.
Now Wilson is regarded as "one of the mainstays of the
ballclub," according to Bamberger. "We're building the
ballclub around him," the Mets manager said.
Two years from now, the Mets hope to have a center fielder
who is faster and better offensively and defensively than the
ne they have today. Chances are Mookie Wilson will be that
person.
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( pitcher Dennis Lubert has a 3*1 record for the Ani.
Lubert was the 271st player chosen in major league
Iraft this past June.
all-time leading background with him from St. Louis
, played for USC to the University of South Carolina,"
USC soccer coach Mark Berson said.
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SUZANNE BARBRE was named
i 6-1, 180-pound assistant basketball coach for the
a grani-in-aid i^aay Gamecock basketball team last
1 play for USC's week by head coach Terry Kelly,
the upcoming A 26-year-old native of Rutledge,
Tenn., Barbre comes to Carolina after
goals his senior serving as head girls' basketball
Jniversity High coach at Morristown-Hamblen High
if the team's tri- School West in Morristown, Tenn.
-team All-South, She spent one year as assistant
id second-team women's basketball coach at Carson
iring his high Newman College in Jefferson City,
Tenn., helping the team to a 24-5
strong soccer record in 1978-79.
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