Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insist, perhaps too strongly, that the past is dead. In his 19th major league spring, Carl Yastrzemski looks back on the year that got away and declares: "I forgot about it a couple of hours after we got beat. Optimism is what spring training is for." And First Baseman George Scott, slimmed down and eager, adds a springtime aphorism of his own: "New years bring new things...
...Which is how Rice, 25, became the highest-paid player in Red Sox history. Under the terms of a new contract announced last week, he will get more than $5 million over the next seven years, making him second in earnings in major league history only to Third Baseman Pete Rose, who just signed a four-year, $3.5 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies. "I probably could have got more," said the American League's MVP for 1978, "but I think it's a disadvantage being the highest-paid player because everybody is on you all the time...
...young Rockefeller making the rounds of his father's friends? No, Peter Edward Rose, 37, third baseman extraordinary, tour guide and head auctioneer of the most remarkable free-agent sale in baseball history. So well did Rose peddle himself that the former Cincinnati Reds star moved to the top of the list of baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing...
...York lost Tom Seaver, Oakland couldn't keep Reggie Jackson, but Cincinnati is determined to hold on to Pete Rose. The Reds' star third baseman is scheduled to become a free agent on Nov. 3. To keep him in town, the city planning commission has drafted an ordinance designating Rose "an historic property." If the city council passes the ruling, there cannot be any "alteration to the exterior appearance of the property," including "the number 14 on the shirt and large lettering on the posterior of the shirt spelling out the word Rose." More important, there...
Still, the game's best defensive play was a portent of heroics to come and a change in the fortunes of the Series. Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles, acquired in a trade with Cleveland before the 1973 season, made a spectacular diving catch of a line drive. In the next game, back in Yankee Stadium, Nettles showed he had the millisecond reflexes and cannon arm to be ranked with Brooks Robinson at third. When a weary-armed Ron Guidry turned shaky on the mound, Nettles stifled Dodger rally after rally. Any one of his four sprawling, crawling, flying, levitating...