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After a spate of early-season injuries, the A's went into this week's games healthy and in the hitting groove. Their musclemen, designated hitter Dave Parker and the Bash Brothers -- first baseman Mark McGwire and rightfielder Jose Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean...
...left fielder Rickey Henderson, 30. All he did against Toronto was reach base on 14 of 23 times at bat, score eight runs, drive in five more, hit two homers and steal eight bases in as many tries. On the base paths he drove Blue Jay pitchers nuts. Like Canseco, Henderson is hardly humble. "I'd say I'm the decade's best lead-off man," he declares. "If people feel I'm one of the best who ever played the game, that's nice to hear." Opposing players call Henderson a hot dog, and frustrated fans in Toronto bombarded...
...only you could see a game in which the key players weren't will Clark or Jose Canseco but Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle. If only you could have witnessed Don Larsen's perfect game or watched Ted William's perfect swing. If only you could have seen a game at Ebbets Field or eaten a pretzel that wasn't cold. If only...
...questions to ask Oakland A's slugger Jose Canseco on his new "Ask Jose" hotline...
...better win it all this year," the Oakland fan said. "Last year, we were the best team in baseball. Jose Canseco was more than the MVP. He was the king, czar, whatever. Dennis Eckersley could have put out those Yellowstone fires by himself. We just huffed and puffed and blew the Red Sox out of the playoffs...