Subject: Case Study- MUST READ and DICSUSS
Date: 95-02-13 16:15:08 EST
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= = =  This article appeared about 6 months ago.  Thought it would
be interesting now that we are studying advance.  It is an example of
what to do RIGHT.

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>Years ago, it wasn't unusual to be able to walk into a hotel and shake Babe
>Ruth's hand.
>
>Until recent times, spring training camps were wide open, with fans
>surrounding Fernando Valenzuela or Mike Schmidt as they walked to the
>diamond.
>
>Before baseball parks became closed fortresses, it was possible to wait
>outside a clubhouse door and get Reggie Jackson or Brooks Robinson to sign a
>scorecard as they walked to their parked cars.
>
>Not today.
>
>Michael Jordan sits in a minor league dugout with a burly bodyguard or two
>during a game and has state troopers escort him to his Lexus.
>
>Cal Ripken occasionally checks into a different hotel from the rest of the
>team, registers under an assumed name and takes a taxi instead of the team
>bus.
>
>Ken Griffey has an old buddy work as a personal bodyguard.
>
>Some major leaguers even carry a firearm. Others need police to get rid of a
>stalker.
>
>>From the commissioner's office down to the lowest-paid long reliever in the
>major leagues, security is an issue to all. For the best and best-known
>players, it's a constant battle to keep a superstar distant -- and safe --
>from an adoring and sometimes volitile public.
>
>Officials at in the major league office take it seriously. And they try to
>keep it quiet.
>
>``In my eight years here, we have had a few stalking cases that went city to
>city,'' said Kevin Hallinan, a former New York City homicide detective who
>heads baseball's security division.
>
>``In each case we identified the person who was doing the stalking, got
local
>law enforcement involved and put a stop to it. There was no publicity and
the
>families din't get involved.''
>
>One non-stalking case Hallinan acknowledged involved acting commissioner Bud
>Selig, who received threatening mail this year around the time he canceled
>the World Series because of the baseball strike. ``It was addressed and
taken
>care of. Nothing bad happened,'' he said.
>
>The stalking cases -- Hallinan refused to identify the players -- were
>handled relatively easily, Hallinan said, because of the easy access
baseball
>players have to his office.
>
>Each player is given a wallet-sized card with a number of a 24-hour hotline
>that handles security problems.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Excellent Idea- ed.  ^^^^^^
>Hallinan describes it as a system the players use and trust, ``one of the
few
>areas where the players' union and the management side have worked well
>together lately.''
>
>``I met with all 28 teams in spring training told told them how baseball's
>security plan works. I was frank with them and told them it's a two-way
>street and they have been responsive.
>
>``The reason it works is because the players do pick up the phone and call
>us. We've built credibility on satisfied customers and we have a tremendous
>track record.''
>
>Still, among the top major leaguers and the world's best-known minor
leaguer,
>the extra precautions are elaborate.
>
>With the Birmingham Barons of the Southern League last summer, Jordan had a
>longtime buddy sit by him on the bench. There was a policeman poised on the
>top step of the dugout, and other policemen ready down the outfield foul
>lines. After home games, he was surrounded by several guards as he walked to
>his car.
>
>When Jordan played in the Arizona Fall League this year, he was shadowed by
>at least one guard everywhere. The league also made sure there was plenty of
>protection when he left Scottsdale Stadium after games.
>
>No other baseball player goes to the lengths as Jordan, who earned more than
>$30 million this year in endorsements, according to Forbes magazine. But
>there are some players who feel almost as much of a need as he does.
>
>Ripken, closing in on Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games played,
>is one who has taken extra precaution in some cities, although he also will
>sign autographs for dozens of fans at a time.
>
>
>``It's a combination of things,'' he told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. ``It's
>phone calls from early morning radio stations wanting to put me on the air.
>It's people impersonating my family members so they can get rooms next to
>you. It's people knocking on my door 3 a.m. It's people hiding behind the
ice
>machine. Sometimes when the pressures of the game get to you, it's nice to
be
>able to get away and have a release. It was hard for me to do that.''
>
>Wade Boggs of the Yankees and Roger Clemens of the Red Sox also have been
>known to check in at a team hotel under assumed names.
>
>Griffey, Frank Thomas and Rickey Henderson offten travel with a bodyguard.
>Darryl Strawberry used to travel often with his brother, a Los Angeles
police
>officer.
>
>No one knows for sure how many players carry handguns, but Hallinan admits
>there are some who do.
>
>``They're citizens like everyone else and have a right to carry them. I told
>them I don't encourage it.''
>
>During the 1993 World Series, Mitch Williams received at least two death
>threats after giving up the winning runs in Philadelphia's 15-14 loss in
Game
>4 to Toronto.
>
>Then, after giving up Joe Carter's winning homer in Game 6, about 30 kids
>showed up at his house in New Jersey with cartons of eggs and started
>throwing. Williams was home at his Texas ranch by then.
>
>Despite the potential for something bad to happen, baseball has not had a
>violent incident since 1949, when Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus was
>shot in a hotel room by a deranged 19-year-old woman.
>
>Major league baseball has tried to address the problem of fans running onto
>the field, but Hallinan admits that there is really no way to stop it.
>
>One major problem site has been Yankee Stadium, where fans would take to the
>field almost daily in the 1993 season after one such instance resulted in
the
>final out of a game being replayed. It was also the place where a knife
>thrown from the stands hit Wally Joyner but did not injure him.
>
>The best solution, Hallinan said, is to get the people off the field as
>quickly as possible and try to station security guards at the most popular
>points where fans go over the wall.
>
>``We have put security people closer to the players so they can see the
(fans
>on the field) before they can reach the players,'' he said.
>
>In some of the newer stadiums, designers have taken security issues into
>concern when they drew up their blueprints. At Camden Yards in Baltimore,
>Jacobs Field in Cleveland and The Ballpark at Arlington, players can take a
>taxi directly into the stadiums and avoid the autograph seekers who converge
>on team buses.
>



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