Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007 | 7:14 a.m.
JUST PASSIN' THROUGH
One of my hobbies as a youngster was to save the programs from El Paso Sun Kings and Diablos games. I could pull them out years later to see who had made it to the The Bigs.
You may not care that I saw Jim Spencer and Tom "Bruno" Brunansky and Craig Lefferts beat the bushes. But it beat collecting stamps.
If you saved your programs from the past two years at Cashman Field, you could have seen roughly half of the participants in this year's baseball playoffs miss the cutoff man or fail to move the runner along.
Here's a list of postseason players who took or threw or missed batting practice in Las Vegas, courtesy of Jim Gemma, the 51s' publicity chief, whose hobby apparently is keeping track of stuff like this:
Arizona Diamondbacks
(Tucson Sidewinders): Chris Young, Jeff Salazar, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Alberto Callaspo, Miguel Montero, Doug Slaten, Tony Pena, Micah Owings, Dustin Nippert.
Chicago Cubs (Iowa Cubs):
Felix Pie, Matt Murton, Ryan Theriot, Mike Fontenot, Ronny Cedeno, Geovany Soto, Carlos Marmol, Rich Hill.
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (Salt Lake Bees):
Reggie Willets, Nathan Haynes, Kendry Morales, Howie Kendrick, Erik Aybar, Mike Napoli, Jeff Mathis, Jered Weaver.
Colorado Rockies (Colorado Springs Sky Sox):
Cory Sullivan, Ryan Spilborghs, Seth Smith, Jeff Baker, Chris Iannetta, Ubaldo Jimenez, Franklin Morales, Manny Corpas.
AROUND THE HORN
Most NHL teams have raised prices for the second straight season. The average ticket price is $48.72, or $33.72 more than it cost to watch the Cubs play the Diamondbacks in the baseball playoffs ... On the way back from Phoenix I sat next to a guy from the Bay Area, who was coming for the Barrera-Pacquiao fight and had graduated from UC Santa Cruz - the Banana Slugs ... I received a football media guide from Ohio Wesleyan University - the Battling Bishops ... He loves a Parade: Lawrence Guy, a lineman at Western High School, is listed among the "Ones to Watch" for this year's Parade All-American football team.
$15 MILLION
Amount of money raised by the Las Vegas Founders Club, the former benefactor of our PGA tournament, for local charities.
$11 MILLION
Amount of money spent by the Shriners Hospital for Children, the tournament's new benefactor, in Southern Nevada since 1922.
3
Number of Mountain West teams (BYU, New Mexico, Wyoming) that have not allowed a 100-yard rusher this season.
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