Angels Give Managing Job To Ousted Astros’ Skipper

Terry Collins, out of work for only a month, got a new job Monday managing the California Angels.

“We did a lot of work, talked to a lot of people,” Angels general manager Bill Bavasi said. “We feel he’s the right man for the job.”

Collins was fired Oct. 4 by the Houston Astros after three consecutive second-place finishes, with the final straw a late-season collapse this year.

After leading St. Louis by 2 games heading into the final month, Houston lost 17 of its last 25 games.

Collins, 47, is the 15th manager in the 37-year history of the Angels. He takes over a team that drove the frustrated Marcel Lachemann, victim of a late-season collapse in 1995, to resign on Aug. 6.

The Angels were 52-59 when Lachemann quit.

Expansion teams may get the vote

Baseball owners, who appeared ready to reject their proposed labor deal, may let the 1998 expansion teams vote at Wednesday’s meeting.

Jerry Colangelo, managing general partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, said he expected to vote on the five-year deal in Rosemont, Ill.

“I have very strong opinions about this whole situation,” Colangelo said. “I would as soon have an opportunity to voice them. The most important thing in my opinion is: What’s in the best stakes of the game, not individual teams or agendas.”

Pioneer black woman player dies

Toni Stone, a black woman who helped shatter baseball’s gender barrier by playing on a Negro League men’s team in the 1950s, has died in Oakland, Calif. She was 75.

She was playing with men while white women had a league of their own, the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.

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