Thanks to Bud I adleast was a partial success. His suggestion on resetting the unit by disconnecting the battery cable worked like a champ. Once the cable was reconnected to the battery I could here the player cycling thru all the slots. Once it was done doing that I pushed the eject button and out popped the cassette. Hoorah!!! This should be posted in out tech help spot.
Now for the ugly. My DD has the new Sony in it so the above didn't work, so this means more drastic measures are in the works. It's cocktail hour and just to hot right now to work on it, maybe tomorrow AM. I will up date on how it goes. Thanks for all those suggestions.