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...Sixteen of 26 arbitration verdicts have gone the way of management, intent on driving down last season's average wage of $412,520. The arbitrator lopped $200,000 off Dodger Pitcher Orel Hershiser's $1 million salary. As for free agents, museum pieces have lost their charm. Reds Shortstop Davey Concepcion, uncoveted elsewhere, had his $900,000 rate cut to $350,000. Reggie Jackson was obliged to come down almost that much to rejoin...
...sixth game, when, like the Red Sox in the play-offs, they were down to a last strike. But the accompanying image is of Team Leader Keith Hernandez making the second out in that 5-3 tenth inning and going directly to the clubhouse for a resigned beer. Manager Davey Johnson was left in the dugout banging out a cold requiem with the back of his head against the stone wall...
...series had appeared to turn on McNamara's calm deployment of his starting pitchers; once he was behind 0-2, Davey Johnson had less opportunity to be serene. But even with a full parcel of rest against worn Third-Game Winner Bob Ojeda, Cy Young-elect Roger Clemens' near best was just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging...
...political Catcher Gary Carter -- and whether whoever it is should automatically be the choice of the league. "We know they're good," sighs Cardinal Shortstop Ozzie Smith, "but they act like they have to remind everyone all the time." Carter, Gooden, Hernandez, Darling, Outfielder Darryl Strawberry and Manager Davey Johnson all have memoirs out or on the way. But only now are they coming to their first critical series of the year...
...player-compensation pool. "Until then I wasn't even going to the big camp," Gooden says. "I came in as a non-roster player, and right up to the fourth inning of the last spring game, I was sure that I was headed to Tidewater. All of a sudden Davey walked over to where I was sitting in the dugout and just put out his hand. 'Congratulations,' he said. 'You made the team.' 'I did?' " Then Johnson sent him into the game. "Oh, man. Every pitch I threw felt five miles an hour faster than the last." When Dwight hurried...