Judgment Calls

[Thumps up]To the Veterans Committee of the Baseball Hall of Fame, which last week selected for induction nonconformist owner Bill Veeck, as well as the great Yankee second baseman Tony Lazzeri.

[Thumps up]To Ralph Miller, Oregon State's longtime basketball coach, who came out of retirement to help his daughter, Shannon Jakosky, coach her Newport Harbor ( Calif.) High girls' team in the last days of her pregnancy.

[Thumps down]To Sam Wyche, the Bengal coach fined $27,941 last season for denying clubhouse access to female reporters, who is now making light of the matter by offering, as a prize in a charity auction, the chance to be the first woman in the Cincinnati locker room after a preseason game.