50% USE OR LOSE John Felske, c Asheville Tourists Mike Ryan, c Hollywood Stars Bobby Floyd, ss Hollywood Stars Dave Schneck, of Hollywood Stars Tommy Hutton, 1b Kansas City Bombers Art Kusnyer, c Kansas City Bombers Terry Humphrey, c Las Vegas Thunder Mike Andrews, 2b Las Vegas Thunder Celerino Sanchez, 3b Rockford Forest Citys Gary Neibauer, p Rockford Forest Citys Lew Krausse, p Spirit Mountain Volcanoes Larry Brown, 3b Spirit Mountain Volcanoes Here is a list of 2 players lost who will be returning in the 1974 rookie draft. John Cumberland, p Dayton Triangles Lee Richard, 2b Glendale Cougars The rest of these players were lost, but never play enough again in MLB anyway. Chris Coletta, of Baltimore Tom Silverio, of Baltimore Tom Dukes, p Baltimore Bill Voss, of Cleveland Monty Montgomery, p Dayton Bill Gilbreth, p Dayton Brant Alyea, of Fairfield Dennis Higgins, p Flushing Jerry Janeski, p Flushing Art Shamsky, of Glendale Bobby Wine, ss Hollywood Ron Stone, of Hollywood Joe Goddard, c Kansas City John Bateman, c Lafayette Roy Foster, of Rockford Archie Reynolds, p Rockford Santiago Guzman, p Rockford Duane Josephson, c Twin Cities Maury Wills, ss Twin Cities ============================================= OVERUSAGE . First off, as always here are the teams that did not gather any overuse for the year. Congratulations to the following managers & teams: Amboy Dukes - Al "Doc" Schweitzer Blue Ridge Mountaineers - Steve Brunner Cleveland Spiders - Chris Williams Dayton Triangles - John Turnbull Evanston Black Sox - John Ungashick Flushing Rats - Joe DeZarlo Frankfort Tigers - Gary Plunkitt Hollywood Stars - Don Zminda Rockford Forest Citys - Terry Baxter Rossville Cubs - Rick Ryan Fairfax Peppers - Ron Peterson 10 Mangers to salute! :) Here are the teams receiving less than 10 games of usage penalties: (NON PERMANENT - ONLY APPLYS TO ROUND ONE.) Baltimore Stallions - Greg Henning - 1 Game Rick Monday, of 6 AB (1) Las Vegas Thunder - Mike See - 1 Game Catfish Hunter, p 1 G (1) Kenosha Eagles - Dave Lauer - 3 Games Mac Scarce, p 1 G (1) Bill Bonham, p 1 ST (2) Niskayuna Red Storm - Don Rahn - 3 Games Mike Hegan, 1b 11 AB (2) Juan Beniquez, of 9 AB (1) Spirit Mountain Volcanoes - Marc Hollingsworth - 3 Games Joe Hague, 1b 5 AB (1) Boog Powell, 1b 5 AB (1) Terry Forster, p 1 G (1) Schaumburg Saxons - Vin Onstott - 4 Games Phil Niekro, p 4 G (4) Below 5 games not bad at all, fellows! Lafayette Chiefs - Steve Ehresman - 7 Games Lee May, 1b 17 AB (3) Don Sutton, p 1 ST (2) Earl Stephenson, p 1 ST (2) Still not too bad, avoided permanent penalty! Here are the remaining 4 teams that have all gained a permanent penalty of 10 or more games: Asheville Tourists - Rich Applegate - 11 Games Dave Cash, 2b 57 AB (11) Twin City Replacements - Marc Robinson - 14 Games Ed Goodson, 1b 19 AB (3) Billy Grabarkawitz, 2b* 15 AB (1.5) Pat Kelly, of 24 AB (4) Ron Lolich, of* 28 AB (2.5) Ray Culp, p 1 G (1) Ron Klimkowski, p 2 G (2) Kansas City Bombers - Bob Calicchia - 18 Games Nate Colbert, 1b 11 AB (2) Chris Speier, ss 25 AB (5) Clay Kirby, p 2 ST - 1 G (5) Marty Pattin, p 3 ST (6) Glendale Cougars - Mike Cascarano - 54 Games** Tom Ragland, 2b* 9 AB (.5) Darrell Chaney, ss 12 AB (2) Mannny Mota, of 14 AB (2) Pedro Borbon, p 7 G (7) Bucky Brandon, p 32 G (32) Bill Lee, p 1 G (1) Vincente Romo, p 11 G (11) Better luck next year guys! * bonus player (only 1/2 regular penalty incurred) ** total games were upped to nearest full game when penalty came to .5