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Cover and Poster Photos: Rich Pilling/MLB Photos Bed Sox Mara^inc I ^ fin has dubbed the rookie shortstop “Spiderman,” and it’s a perfect description of Nomar Garciaparra. At six feet even, but only 175 muscled pounds, Garciaparra’s appendages appear more prominent than his torso, and his windmill style of play accentuates his appendages even more. Spiders have eight legs, and while Garciaparra only has two legs, he can beat a team at least eight different ways. Garciaparra can beat a team - Mafa^ine fabulous plays, plays where I don’t know how Spanish later if I wanted, but I never really he got to the ball.” have, even though some of my relatives speak More than two months into his major only Spanish,” said Garciaparra, who speaks league career, Garciaparra had stolen nine flawless unaccented English. The neighbor¬ bases in 10 attempts and had yet to be hood was a classic American melting pot, so thrown out hy a catcher. He had already hit he didn’t pick up Spanish from his playmates, nine home runs, including a game-winning, either. “I can understand Spanish okay,” he ninth-inning, three-run shot off Seattle’s said, “better than I can speak it.” Norm Charlton; a 12th'inning blast to heat How did he get the name Nomar, which Baltimore; and a game-opening homer that is his father’s name spelled backwards? propelled the Red Sox to a win over “That’s my middle name,” he explained. Cleveland. Five weeks into the season he was “My first name is Anthony. My mother hitting over .300 and slugging over .500 with picked that and said my father could fill in a creditable .366 on-base percentage. Twenty- the blanks, and he picked Nomar. There were three of his first 63 major league hits were a lot of Anthonys in school, so I started using good for extra bases. my middle name. And if I heard the name “He brings an aspect to the game we Anthony at home, I knew I was in trouble.” haven’t had since I’ve been here,” said team¬ Nomar didn’t hear the name Anthony mate Tim Naehring, the Red Sox most senior too often at home. A bright student at St. player who has been here since 1990. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, Calif., In addition to Garciaparra’s skills, there Garciaparra had straight A’s in the classroom are his smarts. and scored better than 1200 on his college “I’ve been a college coach for 23 years,” boards. Naturally, he excelled on the playing said Jim Morris, Garciaparra’s first coach at fields at St. John Bosco as well. He played Georgia Tech, “and I learned from Nomar. soccer and football and kicked a 47-yard field He knew more about the game than any goal to set a school record. He started his other 18-year-old kid I’ve ever been around.” high school baseball career as a catcher, So it seems almost unfair to compare moved to shortstop full-time as a junior, but Garciaparra to a comic-strip, wall-crawling still closed out games on the mound. The character like Spiderman. If there’s been any wall-crawling, it’s been done by Red Sox opponents beaten by the 23-year-old Garciaparra, who has established himself as a with 1) his gloved left Hand; 2) his right bona fide candidate for American League throwing arm; his legs hy 3) stealing a base; Rookie of the Year honors. No Red Sox player 4) taking an extra base; or 5) heating out an has won that award since Fred Lynn in 1975. infield hit. Garciaparra can heat a team with He hasn’t protested the moniker hung on 6) a home run or 7) a hunt, and he can heat a him by Vaughn, but there’s really nothing com¬ team with 8) his head. ical about Nomar Garciaparra. He is intensely In his brief major league career, serious about everything he does, and he does it Garciaparra has played flashy yet steady all off the diamond as well as on it. defense. 1 le made only three errors in his first His father, Ramon, emigrated to the 55 games at shortstop — as many as former United States from Guadalajara, Mexico, Red Sox Gold Glove shortstop Rick Burleson when he was eight years old. His mother, made in his first major league game. Sylvia, was bom in the United States, and "1 le’s got the whole package: a great English only was spoken around the four chil¬ arm, he’s fast, he reads the hall well," said dren in the Garciaparra household in the Los tearnutate Scott Hatteherg. “He’s made some Angeles suburb of Whittier. “My parents told me I could learn *>«r ' .if -gj£*e f ■a* ^yspy if**5 S? s4 'i* '» ni ^’a# -*• BT , miM lw "w-'W .. M ffe - * sr An inside the park home run. Score one. Enjoy Boston’s Favorite Pizza, now available throughout Fenway Park " Milwaukee Brewers drafted him on the fifth Then it was back to Georgia Tech. He 11 triples and 16 homers for the round in 1991. was asked to be the placekicker on the foot- Yellowjackets as a junior, and the Red Sox “It was a hig temptation (to sign) when hall team when his junior year began, and he made him the 12th pick overall on the first they are flinging money in front of you and accepted the offer. But a closer look at round of the draft that June. playing baseball is your dream,” Garciaparra NCAA rules revealed that the school would “At the time I had Barry (Larkin), I admitted. “But it wasn’t enough to sway me have to give up one of its football scholar- made the statement that I’ll never have the from getting an education. Baseball comes and ships for the next two years if the chance to coach another shortstop as good goes; an education stays with you forever.” Yellowjackets used him. Since Garciaparra as him,” said Danny Hall, Garciaparra’s sec¬ A tougher description for Garciaparra was likely to be a high draft pick in baseball ond coach at Georgia Tech who had been an was deciding which college offer to accept. after his junior year, the football team didn’t assistant at Michigan when the future “I could have gone anywhere 1 wanted in want to lose the scholarship the following Cincinnati Reds star and 1995 N.L. MVP California,” he said. “But I was looking for a year, and his college football career came to played there. “But then I had Nomar, and 1 school with great academics and a place where an end before it really began. had to correct that statement. I won’t coach 1 could play both football and baseball.” Garciaparra hit .427 with 26 doubles, another shortstop as good as those two.” He narrowed his choices to UCLA, Stanford, Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Georgia Tech. He picked Georgia Tech but opted not to play football right away. “Since I was so far way from home, I wanted to focus on baseball my freshman year.” Garciaparra played so well as a fresh¬ man he attracted the attention of University of Miami coach Ron Fraser, who would be coaching the U.S. Olympic baseball team in 1992. Fraser invited Garciaparra to try out as a walk-on candidate, and Garciaparra took him up on the offer, even though no fresh¬ man walk-on player had ever made the team, and the U.S. Olympic Committee would only pick up his expenses if he actual¬ ly made the team. He not only made the team, he was chosen to carry the American flag in front of his teammates at the Opening Ceremonies in Barcelona that summer. Garciaparra said playing the pre- Olympic exhibition schedule was the tough¬ est baseball has ever been for him. But it may have toughened him up mentally for the future rigors of pro ball. “It was more grueling than any minor league or major league schedule because of all the travel involved,” he explained. “We’d get up at 5 a.m. and fly to the city where the next game was, often in a major league park. We’d play a game in the afternoon, then watch the major league game, get hack to the hotel late at night, and then get up at 5 a.m. to fly to the next city and do it all over again.” Hey Sox Fans... This Bud’s for you. 0: > i beer. We ©1995 Anheuser-Busch, Inc,, Budweiser® Beer, St. Louis, MO http://budweiser.com/