All-Star Notebook : Moore May Ask for Bonus Next Time

When Donnie Moore signed a one-year, $375,000 contract with the Angels last winter, there were no clauses that provided for a bonus in the event Moore made the All-Star team.

“I’ll guarantee you it’ll be there next time,” Moore said Tuesday night before the first All-Star appearance of his career.

“I never thought I’d make the All-Star team, I never gave it any thought,” said Moore, the only Angel to be selected to the 56th Game.

Moore, the Atlanta reliever whom the Angels selected out of the free-agent compensation pool after losing Fred Lynn to Baltimore, never thought he’d be in the kind of bargaining position he’s in now: He’s eligible to become a free agent at the end of this season, his best in the majors.

“In the past I’ve had to go with the flow,” Moore said. “It’s nice to be in a position of having control over your future.”

It’s the kind of position that Detroit’s Willie Hernandez, who used to pitch in the same bullpen with Moore when both were with the Cubs, parlayed into a five-year, $5.5-million contract from the Tigers last winter after winning the American League’s Cy Young Award.

“I can’t ask for a contract like his,” Moore said. “But I would like to sign a multi-year contract. And I’d like to stay in Anaheim.”

Contract talks have not yet begun between Moore and the Angels, he said. “Mike Port (Angels vice president) said something in May about talking to all the potential free agents,” Moore said. “But my agent hasn’t heard anything.”

Moore waited almost seven hours at the Orange County airport Monday when the flight he was supposed to take developed electrical problems in the cockpit, he said. Asked if it were worth the trouble, he said: “This is nice, man. Unbelievable, really.”

What Moore couldn’t believe is that he’s the only Angel here.

“There should be three, four, five guys here, but it’s not my vote,” Moore said. “Of course, Rod Carew should be here. Reggie Jackson should be here. Ron Romanick should be here. But my vote doesn’t mean anything.”

Tiger second baseman Lou Whitaker, who was locked out of a workout in the 1983 All-Star Game in Comiskey Park, arrived here without his uniform jersey.

“I left my original jersey on the front seat of my Mercedes,” Whitaker said.

The Tigers’ equipment manager mailed him another one, but apparently that one was lost at the airport here.

Whitaker played in a $15 Tigers jersey that was purchased at one of the Metrodome’s souvenir stands. A No. 1 was taken off one of Willie Hernandez’s extra uniforms and traced onto Whitaker’s with a magic marker.

He brought his own pants, but apparently he forgot his glove, too, and had to borrow one belonging to shortstop Cal Ripken of the Orioles. He also wore a pair of white shoes that he owns but is not permitted to wear for the Tigers.

“I feel comfortable in these,” he said. “They’re my go-to-meetin’ shoes. I bring ‘em out once a year.”

San Diego Padres’ right-fielder Tony Gwynn played only one inning before coming out of the game. Gwynn had injured his wrist in a collision with Dodgers catcher Mike Scioscia last month.

He grounded to second in his only at-bat, and he said, “I was only going to play one inning under any circumstances. I thought about not playing at all because we’re in the pennant race and there are a lot of games left, but I felt I owed it to the fans who voted me on the team.”

All-Star Notes Five Padres started for the NL team, the first time five players from the same team have started since 1976, when the Cincinnati Reds had five: Joe Morgan, Dave Concepcion, Pete Rose, George Foster and Johnny Bench. . . . For the first time in five seasons, there were no rookies here on either team. . . . Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, who pitched batting practice on Monday, coached first base as the honorary captain of the NL team.