Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...comes the cash: Cleveland's potent Joe Carter, who hit .302 with 29 home runs, 121 RBIs and had 29 steals in 1986, fetches $46; Detroit's injury- prone slugger-speedster and amateur airplane pilot Kirk Gibson goes for $41. More than five hours later, the auction closes with the march of the scrubeenies, the cheap players who fill out everyone's roster. There are still some good buys for those who have husbanded their money, either by design or dumb luck. The Moosers grab Milwaukee's Cecil Cooper for $3, the same price that Nova pays for Catcher...
With the Hoagie in order, the Jersey Devil is already dreaming of new challenges. Adamson is eager to build a lobster farm in South Carolina, and a college in Seattle wants them to build a floating guesthouse in Puget Sound. But it is Cleveland's proposed new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that really gets the Jersey Devil's juices flowing. "If I have a dream commission, it is to design the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," says Badanes, mocking the manner of a politician at a press conference. His colleagues give him a rousing round of applause...
...glad developments, though, the happiest were in Milwaukee, where a couple of strangers named Tom Trebelhorn and Juan Nieves momentarily turned the American League East upside down (restoring Cleveland to the bottom). On a drizzling night in Baltimore, Nieves no-hit the Orioles last week for the Brewers' ninth victory in a season begun perfectly. "Games like this can make a grown man cry," said Trebelhorn, 39, the most anonymous skipper in the major leagues...
...military forms, typewriters, inks and stamps, all useful for producing forged documents. They charge that the Soviet Union has fabricated evidence as a way to intimidate fervently anti-Communist East Europeans settled in the U.S. "The OSI is in cahoots with the Soviet KGB," says Bill Liscynesky, president of Cleveland's United Ukrainian Organizations...