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Word: affords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luxury few can afford to do. Sure, give Stick Michael and Cashman credit for assembling the roster, but it's cold hard cash that keeps the players there. It keeps a contending team intact...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Yanks Grab Headlines, Hurt Baseball With Clemens Trade | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...Baseball has a burgeoning disaster on its hands as fewer and fewer teams can afford to assemble a contending team. Each year a couple more teams get defined as "small market." A couple more teams become fodder for the Bronx Bombers...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Yanks Grab Headlines, Hurt Baseball With Clemens Trade | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...Back in the Golden Era of the 1950s, when New York teams won every year as well, the national pastime at least offered innocence and a wholesome atmosphere parents could afford to take their kids to often...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Yanks Grab Headlines, Hurt Baseball With Clemens Trade | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...course, since my cap has that precious NY, isn't it about time for Mets GM Steve Phillips to give Ash a call? I hear Ash just picked up a beer-guzzling, Metallica-thrashing , southpaw who went 18-4 last season and really can't afford...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Yanks Grab Headlines, Hurt Baseball With Clemens Trade | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

Stuck with this contract demand, Blue Jays General Manager Gord Ash shopped Clemens around to the handful of teams that can offer fair trade value and afford his salary. The latter was far more prohibitive--just ask Astros General Manager Gerry Hunsicker...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, | Title: Yanks Grab Headlines, Hurt Baseball with Clemens Trade | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

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