Josh Bullock
Innocent hobby ruined
by baseball card boom
As if stories of that toweling
home run against Oklahoma State
weren’t enough to make the
grandkids ga ga, now the Nebraska
baseball players have their own set
of baseball cards to remember the
glorious 1990 season.
What towering home run? What
glorious season? What grandkids?
Paul
Domeier
Give them time. If the grandkids
come, the home run and the season
will grow, too.
The Nebraska sports informa
tion office is selling packs of cards
for S2.50. Assistant sports infor
mation director Chris Anderson said
the team also had cards available
from the 1988 team.
1 hope no one is speculating
with these cards. I hope no one
looked for the mistakes of a glove
on the wrong hand or a right-handed
batter bailing left-handed (they
aren't there -1 checked). I hope no
one lias bought the cards and locked
| them away for the day Bobby
Benjamin or Doug Tegtmeier
reaches the major leagues.
i grew up right at the start of the
baseball card boom, and I’m glad.
The boom has messed up baseball
card collecting for the kids. Oeca
stonally. I read about massive card
shows and the outrageous prices
for certain Honus Wagner’s, but I
bought my packs at the one store in
Beatrice that had them at the time,
because I loved baseball and base
ball cards. I even chewed the gum.
A friend and I combined collec
tions for our viewing pleasure and
initialed the cards for identifica
tion, not realizing or caring what
that did to the value. Luckily, my
friend’s dad smoked cigars, so I
had boxes to store my most prized
possessions in.
The cards were Topps, the only
kind ai the time and still the best.
Topps cards were made of a cross
between construction paper and
cardboard, and disintegrated in
water. Of course, no self-respect
ing kid would ever risk those pre
cious pieces of paper near water,
food, baby sisters, cleaning moth
ers or any other natural card preda
tors.
In 1981, 1 discovered I could
order a complete set, with no du
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NU hosts ‘Olympics’
Cornhuskers focusing on Sooner matchup
By Paul Domeier
Senior Reporter
The tennis Olympics is coming to
Lincoln this weekend.
Saturday at 2 p.m. the Nebraska
women’s tennis team will face Okla
homa State, a team whose lineup
includes one Pole, one Briton, one
Canadian, one South African, one
Italian and one Australian. The top
10 “Cowgirls” arc almost Olympic
calibcr, too, with four ranked singles
players and two ranked doubles teams.
So how will the Comhuskers, who
also will play Oklahoma at 2 p.m.
Sunday in their last dual before the
Big Eight tournament, combat this
international all-star team?
By sending out a Hungarian Husker,
No. 1 singles player Ildiko Guba,
onto the Cathcr-Pound courts.
“Ildy’s been playing great ten
nis,” Nebraska coach Gregg Calvin
said.
Guba, a junior from Budapest, is
4-1 in Big Eight singles this year, her
loss coming to Eveline Hamers of
Kansas. Hamers’ only loss was to
39th-ranked Monika Waniek of Chor
zow, Poland, who just happens to be
Oklahoma State’s No. 1 singles player.
Guba has pushed Waniek in their
two previous meetings. In their
matchup as freshmen, Guba said, she
was up 5-2 in the first set and had two
match points before losing 7-5. Last
year she lost 6-3, 6-3.
Now Guba is playing better than
ever, and she said she is in better
shape physically.
“According to both coaches, Jake
(assistant coach Scott Jacobson) and
Gregg, Lm getting to a few more
balls than I used to,” she said.
Mentally, she has had to deal with
three first-set tiebreakers in her first
four conference matches. The two
tiebreakers she won led to victories.
The one she lost - against Hamers -
led to a defeat. She said winning the
tiebreaker is just about that crucial to
the outcome.
“It’s really important, because I
know myself,” she said. “If I lose the
first set, cspcc ial 1 y in a tiebreaker, I’ll
be down the next couple games.”
That’s about all die opponent needs
to win, so Guba said she could do
without the tiebreakers.
“I’m not trying to make it a habit,”
she said.
Calvin said Nebraska will need to
get close to tiebreakers to have a
chance for a couple wins against the
Cowgirls. In addition to Waniek,
Oklahoma State possesses the 65th-,
67lh- and 79th-rankcd singles players
and the ninth- and 39th-ranked doubles
teams.
“We need to get in position to win
- get to four-all and then have a
chance,” he said.
Oklahoma State hasn’t lost a point
in conference play, but Guba said the
match against the Cowgirls is not
Nebraska’s primary focus.
“What’s more important for us is
the one on Sunday,” she said.
Nebraska is second in the Big Eight
with 33 points in five matches. Kan
sas has 31 from six matches, Kansas
State 28 from six and Oklahoma 26
from four.
Calvin said he is recruiting specta
tors for the match against the Soon
ers. Guba said she is optimistic that
Nebraska can win, which virtually
would assure the Huskers of second
place entering the Big Eight tourna
ment, April 26-27 in Oklahoma City,
Okla.
Guba said she isn’t looking past
this weekend, even though a couple
wins and a strong showing in the
conference tourney could earn her an
invitation to the NCAA tournament.
“That wouldn’t be bad. I could
^handle it, and I would take it, too,”
she said with a laugh. “That’s going
to depend on how I do against Okla
homa State.”
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