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...FRANCISCO--At first, sitting in the dugout at Candlestick Park, Tony La Russa thought the fans were just stamping their feet. In an instant, he realized it was an earthquake, and the first-ever Bay area World Series became secondary...
...Cito Gaston) whose unflappable style helped inspire the midseason revival of brooding power hitter George Bell. The August acquisition of spark-plug centerfielder Mookie Wilson added on-the-field leadership. As Gaston, one of the two black managers in baseball, puts it, "If I wasn't sitting in the dugout, I'd buy a ticket to see Mookie play...
...dazed and poking in the hot ashes. Nearby a little boy was playing with a football -- all he had saved. The bodies of 14 horses were smoking and smelling in the street. Twenty feet from them were the bodies of ten people who had sought refuge in a dugout -- a direct...
Even casual baseball fans know the drears of the Boston Red Sox, those goats of fate, a team usually long on talent but short on luck and even minimal strategy from the dugout. The New York Yankees are another legend: power at bat, awesome pitching, managerial smarts to spare...
Baseball heroes are selling their good names for cash at autograph marts. The old signings over dugout railings are fading as promoters keep the kids moving in assembly lines of dreams...