
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 31, 1990                   TAG: 9003310341
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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Hide Koga, a minor-league pitcher of no great distinction in the 1960s, is about to make history as the first Japanese manager of an American baseball team. Koga is the new skipper of the Salinas Spurs of the Class A California League, a team that will feature at least a dozen Japanese players on its roster when it plays the season opener April 6 against the Modesto A's.

France's undefeated Christophe Tiozzo stopped Baek In-Chul of South Korea in the sixth round to take the World Boxing Association super middleweight title at Lyon, France.

by CNB