IN BRIEF
A copy of Monday's Butler Eagle will get baseball fans $1 off the ticket price to the Butler BlueSox game that night.
Monday night is Team Photograph Night as the BlueSox take on the Chillicothe (Ohio) Paints at Pullman Park. The first 500 fans 14 years old and younger will get a free color photograph of the team and will be invited to an autograph session.
So bring in Monday's Butler Eagle to Pullman Park and get $1 off the ticket that night.
The Butler County American Legion will hold its all-star tryouts for 25 players today at Pullman Park.<B>First Base:</B> Jose Cumba, Butler City; Andrew Rush, Mars; Bobby Swartwout, Meridian<B>Second Base:</B> Matt Corner, Prospect; Matt Ellsworth, Karns City; Cody Herald, East Butler; Heath Lominski, West Sunbury; Jacob Thompson, Center Township; Caleb Trombatt, Meridian<B>Shortstop:</B> Brandon Bonzo, West Sunbury; Evan Oswald, East Butler; Jeff Slater, Butler City<B>Third Base: </B>Greg Hays, East Butler; Brandon Lamotte, Butler City; Jeff Quail, Mars<B>Pitcher:</B> Dan Brent, Mars; Nick Rossmiller, East Butler; Zach Sessa, Center Township<B>Outfield:</B> Corey Branchen, Meridian; Wes Henderson, Butler City; Clark Leibler, Butler City; Tanner Master, Meridian; Mike Saper, West Sunbury; Don Trapp, Mars; Zach Radar, Center Township
SLIPPERY ROCK — Andrew Morris, a right-handed pitcher for Gulf Coast (Fla.) Community College and currently a member of the Slippery Rock Sliders of the Prospect League, was drafted in the 44th round of the amateur draft Thursday by the Milwaukee Brewers.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The NCAA placed Alabama's football program and 15 other of the school's athletic teams on three years' probation Thursday for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks, stripping the Crimson Tide of 21 football wins over a three-year period.The NCAA said 201 athletes in 16 sports obtained "impermissible benefits" by using their scholarships to obtain free textbooks for other students. Alabama identified 22 athletes, including seven football players, as "intentional wrongdoers" who knew they were receiving improper benefits.As a result, the NCAA ruled the football team must vacate any wins in which any of those seven players took part during 2005-07.
CLEVELAND — Woodie Held, who played 14 years in the majors and was traded for future home run king Roger Maris, died. He was 77. The Cleveland Indians Thursday announced Held's death, which came after a long bout with cancer.Held played for seven AL teams and was with the 1966 World Series champion Baltimore Orioles. He spent the majority of his career with Cleveland after being acquired on June 15, 1958, from the Kansas City Athletics in a multiplayer trade for Maris. A year later, Maris was sent in another big trade to the New York Yankees — the team that originally signed Held and brought him to the major leagues in the early 1950s.
