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...effect ending the reserve system and clearing the way for the free agent system. On the day of Flood's death, that legacy was not lost on today's players. "Every major league baseball player owes Curt Flood a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid," pitchers David Cone and Tom Glavine, the current AL and NL player representatives, said in a statement. "With the odds overwhelmingly against him, he was willing to take a stand for what he knew was right." Flood's fight was not about greed but about rights, about raising the status of players above...
City workers, for example, were out in force yesterday planting trees in the newly constructed granite pits on Mass. Ave. The tall, lanky specimens are leafless beings. Their wafer branches are stripped and gathered together in a forced upward cone, for transport it seems. Still, the trees are three. Pigeons on the grass alas, alas...
Pick a moment, any moment, to remember: Jones' second home run in Game 1, Torre's heart-to-heart talk with David Cone in Game 3, Steve Avery's 3-2 pitch to Wade Boggs with the bases loaded in the 10th inning of Game 4, the rope by Luis Polonia that froze an entire nation with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of Game 5--and the wall-banging celebration of Paul O'Neill after he caught the ball at the last instant. Best of all, there was the just reward for Torre after 37 years...
...Glavine), this year's probable winner (John Smoltz) and the man who was the number one pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates for most of this year, Denny Neagle. The Yankees, meanwhile, are thin in the starting rotation (manager Joe Torre is considering using a three-man rotation of David Cone, Andy Pettitte, and Jimmy Key) but have perhaps the best bullpen in baseball. All of which you would think would make for a rather mundane, pitcher's duel series that should favor Atlanta. But at least half of the games will be played in New York, where fans tend...
...YORK CITY: Two months ago, the last place David Cone and John Burkett expected to be was on the mound for the opening game of the playoffs. But that is just where they will be Tuesday night when Cone's Yankees take on Burkett's Rangers in Game 1 of the American League playoff series. Cone, who underwent surgery on an aneurysm in his throwing shoulder on May 10, and Burkett, who was toiling with the lowly Florida Marlins before being traded to Texas, each played key roles in righting their struggling teams in September. Cone rejoined the Yankees...