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...Rice, Dan Quisenberry, George Brett, Eddie Murray and Mike Schmidt all make more than $2 million base salary; Gary Carter, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith and Willie Wilson fall just a hair short of that mark...
...latest of the "extra-long contracts" negotiated were the lifetime contracts of three Kansas City Royals in 1984. Besides a generous base salary, the players--Quisenberry, Wilson and George Brett--will also receive interest payments from real-estate investments...
However, as in most Spenser novels, there is also an emotional denouement. In Pale Kings it involves how Caroline Rogers, the wife of the police chief, handles both the loss of her husband and her son Brett, who just happened to be under Esteva's employ...
Surprise: the first name thrown out by the Veecks is Brett Butler, the speedy Cleveland centerfielder. Because the American League has a scarcity of base stealers, speed is a highly prized commodity; Butler, a .278 hitter with little power but who swiped 32 bases, goes for $22. Yankee Slugger Don Mattingly goes for $45; Baltimore Catcher Terry Kennedy for $14. Henderson, year in and year out the Rotisserie League's Mr. Everything, comes up fourth. The bidding is fierce, quickly passing Rickey's previous salary of $53. Given the finite money pool of $3,120, the large number...
...There were voices earlier," said Kenny Brett, an ironworker who said he was on the ground floor when the building fell at 1:30 p.m. "But most of them have stopped," he said as night fell...