TORONTO (CP) — Vince
Ferragamo's agent, David
Fishoff, says the free-agent
quarterback will sign with
Montreal Alouettes in the
next few days and thereby
consummate “the greatest
marriage in the history of

sport.”
The “marriage” will take
place even though

Ferragamo's Canadian
Football League rights
belong to Hamilton Tiger-
Cats, sald Fishoff.

Ticats’ talks with the
veteran National Football
League quarterback were
shelved several weeks ago
because af the financial
demands put forward by
Fishoff.

Fishoif is reported to have
said Wednesday that Van-
couver sports entrepreneur
Nelson Skalbania has made
Ferragame the best offer yet
— even though Skalbania’s
pending purchase of the Als
has yet to be approved by the
CFL.

The player's agent said

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New Montreal ‘ ‘owner’ bids for Farragamo

mers of the North American
Soccer League — visited
Ferragamo in the U.S.

He is said to have offered
the former Los Angeles
Rams quarterback a high-
salary contract, business
opportunities in Montreal
and clearance for. him to
attend medical school during
the football season.

Fishoff admitted the snag

is Hamilton, which owns .

Ferragamo's CFL rights.

“But Skalbania has
assured us he will take care
of that,'’ said Fishoff.
“Skalbania's a genius. |
absolutely love the man. So
does “Vince.

“And you can take my
word for it — we'll likely sign
with Montreal within the
next few days.”

Fishoff said the offer was
far more than the free-agent
quarterback had received
from the Rams, where he
has played since 1978 on a
$50,000-a-year salary, or
olfered by the Ticats.

“This is the first time we

Skalbania, who also owns
two Cailgary-based
professional teams — the
Flames of the National
Hockey League and the Boo-

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owner,” Fishoff said. ‘We
never talked to the owner in
Los Angeles and we never

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Big. Cat and Ol’ Rube make the hall

TAMPA, Fla:.(AP) —

Big Cat and Of’ Rube rade

it, but it was a long time

coming.
For John (Big Cat) Mize,

the slugging first baseman =

whose bat rocked three
decades of pitchers, it was 28
years of waiting.and hoping,

For Andrew (Rube)
Foster, the long wait covered
more than half a century, but
he wasn't around to ap-
preciate it. The grandpop of
the old Negro leagues died in
1930 at age 51.

Now both Mize and Foster
will be in baseball's Hall of
Fame — chosen Wednesday
by the veterans committee
— with the inductions to take
place, in Foster’s case
posihumously, next summer
in the museum at Cooper-
stown, N.Y.

Mize, in his home at

cleaning.

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‘carpenters pile up some
lumber and gone into the
house shortly before noon
Wednesday to eat lunch and
catch the news on the radio.

The 6-foot-2, *215-pounder
had been told an an-
nouncement was expected at

‘noon from Tampa and he

knew from reading the
papers that his name was
high on the list.

The job of this committee
is to review the names and
records of outstanding
players who had failed to be
honored by baseball writers
in the 15-year specified
period ‘five years after
quitting the game.

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news and kept his ear tuned
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The Big Cat was in. So was
Rube Foster: Celebrations
could start. .

_ “The first word came from
sports writers a little before
1 pm.,” Mize said. “The

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Most baseball men think
Mize, one of the game’s pre-

mier power hitters, should-

have been in the Hall years
ago. .

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career covered 15 seasons,
the first six with St, Louis
Cardinals, four with New
York Giants and five with
New York Yankees before
retiring in 1953.

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Would-be Expos looks
for a place to play

WEST PALM BEACH,
Fla. (CP) — Even if Brad
Mills doesn’t make the
Montreal Expos lineup this
spring, he has one thing to
look forward to — he'll be
able to eat North American
food regardless of what
minor league level they send
him to.

That promises to be a wel--

come relief, considering that
the 24-year-old Mills became
violently ill after dining at
Escogida in the Dominican
‘Republic, where -he:played.:
winter baseball,

“y don't know what it
was,” Mills said, “The night
it happened a group of us
went out to eat but I was the
only one who got sick after
the meal.

“Twas sick for a couple of
weeks afterwards and lost
quite a bit of weight so I
finally decided ta come

- home.”

The more cynical ob-
servers might deduce that
Milis took sick at the
prospect of scrambling for a
job with the talentladen

National League club. But

the native of Lemon Cove,

Calif, who jimped from

Class AA ball to the majors
in one season, isn’t the type
to get queasy over such a
challenge.

“Sure, I'd like to play in
the big leagues, but the club
has a lot of talent. I have to

realize that. There are guys
playing at key positions who
havebeen here quite a while.
I'm in a tough situation along
with a lot of other
ballplayers.”

Mills has a slight ad-
vantage over some of the
competition in that he
performed exceptionally

well after being recalled last —

June when third baseman
Larry Parrish went on the
disabled list with a wrist
injury. Mills hit safely in his
_first six games and ended the

. season with a .300 batting

mark in 60 at-bats.

Apart from providing the
Expos with a boost at a time
when it was desperately
needed, the experience

helped Mills heading into

this year’s camp.

“It's made me feel more
comfortable, more relaxed,
because ] know now that. 1
cando it. Now, I just try to let
things take care of them-
selves rather than get iob
tense. Now I can go out there
and just play ball.”

Some of the playing has
been in unfamiliar territory
berause Mills has spent time
at second base as the club
attempts to discover
whether he can perform at
more than one position.

“It’s a new thing for me

but it’s not'a bad thing. The
experience should be good.
As long-as I can play any

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Mills will even maintain a
smile if he's returned to
Denver to serve another few
months of apprenticeship.

“] just have to realize the
situation on the ball club,”
he said. “No one wants to
return to the minors after
sampling the major leagues.

“But if there are things
that you bave to work on and
develop down there you just
have to go.”

Unlike some players, Milis
hasn't set a timetable for at-
taining regular employment
in the majors, other than to
reach the big time as quickly
as possible and remain there
as long as be can.

“A lot of players do set
timetables,” he agreed.
“But I never have; I enjoy
playing the game no matter
where'l play it.”

From Eskimos
to Oilers?

EDMONTON (CP)
Owner Peter Pocklington
says he’s willing to offer
Hugh Campbell the coaching
job with Edmonton Oilers of
the National Hockey League,
even though Campbell's
background is in profes-
sional football,

“I'd hire him in a second,"
Pocklington said in an in-
terview with Edmonton
Journal sports columnist
Terry Jones.

Campbell has had out-
standing success in four
years as head coach of
Edmonton Eskimos in the
Canadian Football League.
The Eskimos have won the
Grey Cup in each of the last
three years.

“There is no precedent for
like  this,**
Pocklington said. “To me it
makes sense. Some people
will say I've lost my mar-
bles. But that doesn't bother
me.

“The only reason ] haven't
asked him yet is because the
situation ls awkward in that
the Eskimos are a firm
awned by the fo! ,

The Eskimos are a non-
profit, community-owned
organization.

Pocklington wants
Campbell because he has
reached the conclusion that
today’s successful. coach ix
successful In dealing with
people,