Word: baseman
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...Kelly, the major leagues' youngest manager at 37, inherited a ! considerable legacy from the Twins' old owner, Calvin Griffith: a powerful first baseman, Kent Hrbek; a complete third baseman, Gary Gaetti; a reliable left-handed pitcher, Frank Viola; and a little, round outfielder, Kirby Puckett. Through the ingenuity of young General Manager Andy MacPhail, 34 -- two storied baseball names, Griffith and MacPhail -- scrappy Outfielder Dan Gladden was added, along with a pair of heavy-duty relievers, Juan Berenguer from San Francisco and Jeff Reardon from Montreal. Greg Gagne has been a joyous shortstop, and Rightfielder Tom Brunansky a force...
...Nothing Lou did hurt us in any way," Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly said. "He did what he could. He put the best players on the field every day and made the right moves. We just didn't produce. We didn't play well when we had to. But we never lost respect for Lou. Never. We played hard...
...Yankees suffered major injuries to their first two hitters in the lineup--outfielder Rickey Henderson [right hamstring strain] and second baseman Willie Randolph [torn knee cartilage and eventual surgery], who missed a combined 109 games...
Gary Gaetti, Minnesota's powerful third baseman, imagines there will be five characters in these play-offs, counting the Homerdome. "The dome is home, man," he says slyly. "We use it." As discombobulating to strangers as Fenway's great Wall, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome has seen 56 Twins victories this championship season, their first in 17 years. "There are tricky little things about it," reports Gaetti, one of three Twins with 30 homers (and Outfielder Kirby Puckett has 28). "Balls bounce funny in certain spots. They get lost in the ceiling and die in the rightfield corner...
Like the Giants, the Cardinals fought off injuries all season, curing their pitching rotation just in time to parry a secondary assault from Montreal. First Baseman Jack Clark, the only St. Louis slugger, has missed 24 games with a sprained ankle, and is a doubtful participant this week. An old discard, Danny Driessen, 36, has been cracking doubles in his place. Devoured by a man- eating tarpaulin in 1985, whirlwind Leftfielder Vince Coleman resolves to stay clear of the machinery this year. "I don't go anywhere anymore," he shudders, "without my tarp detector...