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Tigers' title d( Associated Press All hail the mighty Detroit Tigers, champions of the baseball world, a new dynasty enjoying the first fruits of success. Sure. Just like the Baltimore Orioles' dynasty last year and the Milwaukee Brewers' dynasty the year before that. Don't blame the Birds and the Brew for failing to build on their success. The fact of the matter is that baseball dynasties are a thing of the past, buried forever by the amateur and reentry free agent drafts. There was a time when a team with a iV_ . 1 -I ?. ^ 11 i 1. _ . ^ 11 lai pariMun unci enougn seouis tuuiu mine the best new talent, outbid the opposition and build a powerhouse for years to eome. That system broke down with the universial amateur draft, which now divides the new talent equally among the member clubs. All things being equal, the best a team can hope for after it drafts the No. I high school or college player, is the No. 27 player ? first choice in the .^V.V,UIIU I Will 111. Then came the re-entry system, permitting star players to walk. So havenot clubs like San Diego can get PIEDMONT': Face it,your k years. But don't jet i Through bob Piedmont flies for 1 kinds of hot spots What's the cai a valid student ID. I Piedmont's 5( commitment to hi; \m\ ntwuhihlc.ronnil (rtf)tuit'ts nu SmuLiy d/ft") i <><>/? m lloliiu )es not a dy neauny in a nurry Dy laying out big money for stars like Steve Ganvey and Goose Gossage. The other side of thai coin, though, is contract language is so involved now that those same stars can take a stroll almost at will, witness the World Series threat of Detroit reliever Willie Hernandez. The result is that almost any team can win in any given year. Consider the Detroit-San Diego World Series pairing followed Baltimore-Philadelphia last year, Milwaukee-St. Louis the year before that, and New York-Los Angeles in 1981. That's the maximum eight different teams advancing to the Series in the last four years and if you take it back two more years, you can add Pittsburgh (1979) and Kansas City (1980) to that list. In the division races, Cincinnati (1979), California (1979, 1982), Houston (1980), Oakland (1981), Montreal (1981), Atlanta (1982), the Chicago White Sox (1983) and Cicago Cubs (1984) have all won. All of this points to parity, a pattern of spreading success around. Now it's Detroit's turn. Next year, who knows? . u.? r:-?. t 111111115 ui^ 1 iiM wine iMi 1 cu>y uy any stretch of the imagination. Winn I ML , I sJUm-y 0 ?%^TgBg '<%.. i ^gmm- itiifliiti 550%OflFCOi ? - ?? ^ <"> *?> ? <-A??/-\ *A/\f ? T/ /cill 111 yc'cii di t: i yv. that stop you from mo >ruary 28,1985, you car half fare.To LA and Nc and hometowns in be ?urn 7^11 1 T/-M 1 rY^l Iff- u n i LCI 1: vveil, 11 iuoi i ^ead the fine print belc 3% Off Col le^e Fare. M ^her education is not ji 7/77/7/77Vg%C of be I'urJutM'il (if least mm i'm ihtys before tra (\ tnnel restriction* ( \ill \<>io tnnel ii). n octw itiQlffl I imoiy umnc ing the second time, though, is even tougher. Especially in the American | League Last where a half dozen clubs arc perpetual contenders. The trip from top to bottom can come quickly, witness the Brewers, who went to the last game of the World Series two years ago and then I tumbled to last place in the Year of the Tiger. Detroit's championship was aehiev- | ed in much the same manner as Baltimore succeeded last year ? with role players. No Tiger pitcher won 20 games. No Tiger hitter drove in 100 >. Alan T rammell, the World Series \iVP, was the only .300 hitter in the lineup. There were platoons at first base, third base and left field and the success of the team was traced in large part to the skillfal manipulation of 25 pieces by Manager Sparky Anderson which ultimately produced the pennant and World Series triumph over a rather ordinary San Diego club. The last game was a good example of the Tigers' formula for winning, when Anderson employed four different diesit?n;ited hiffprs. ninrh hirrino auto.iiatically in lefty-righty strategy switches. LEGEMRL xjr prime earning ving off campus, i fly anywhere wYork. And to all I i. jnder26and have >w for restrictions, ore proof that our jst a lofty ideal. uv/ X(>t illdlhlNc illl ihiy I Tidily or . ynt<n itscjf i ?Soo js/ sr^i > v #xj. - .: . ?? : : . Coach's taste sets new cloi Associated Press .Black attire being worn by Carolina games is not a sign of m< of a 3*0 record and an 11th rank Gamecocks. Responsibility for the color Morrison, the Gamecocks* recon just happened to choose an ull-bl first Souih Carolina game last yi "There's no rhyme or reason t in an interview this week, "The fi that it took me by surprise. "So I said, 'It was clean and there.'" Like it or not, Morrison ? wh New York Giants ? has started Carolina where winning seasons 1980, the year George Rogers en "There is nothing on the rac "Jeff" Jefcoat, manager of a dc bia. "We are sold out. We'll kn The Gamecocks, who last seas< Saturday to better a 56-year-old secutive victories. Already this year South Carol 17-10 and thrashed Pittsburgh 4: even this weekend at Notre Gamecocks 30-6 last yean in Col ^ j ... . . ? ON Tl FROl\ LINE., Dr. Everett Ai Professor of, Harvard Medi( A March of Dirr grantee, Dr. Anc ies the very be life before bir" many things Cc His work reflec concern of th Dimes in its fi birth defects." basic research ty, and points \\ day when goc birth will be 1 every child. Sup/i /TT\ Mnrrh % - ' ' i for black rhinri frond kivintj iiyiiu football fans at South turning. It's a celebration ed ? highest ever for the selection belongs to Joe d-year coach who says he ack wardrobe for his very ;ar. o all that," Morrison said rst time 1 was asked about it fit and it was hanging o played 14 years with the a fashion trend at South haven't been in style since tded his college career. :ks in black," said D.H. partment store in Columpw better next year." m went 5-6, have a chance schooi record of five conina has surprised Georgia 5-21, And, it hopes to get Dame, which beat the umbia. HHHB HE ! IT | j HHTI *l?ii 1 f -rj nderson Anatomy :al School les research lerson studjginnings of th when so in go wrong. its the deep e March of ight against l"his kind of is top priori ie way to the )d health at the right of )or/ the of Dimes :rs KwwioNHBa