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Leaders(as of 5-22) Batting AVG Dykstra, Philadelphia .405 Alomar, San Diego .357 Dawson, Chicago .346 Sabo, Cincinnati .346 Home Runs HR Dawson, Chicago 13 Bonilla, Pittsburgh 11 HJohnson, New York 8 Mitchell, San Francisco 8 MaWilliams, San Francisco 8 Wallach, Montreal 8 Saves Saves Burke, Montreal 10 McDowell, Philadelphia 10 DaSmith, Houston 8 Franco, New York 8 MiWilliams, Chicago 8 Myers, Cincinnati...
Leaders(as of 5/15) Batting AVG Dykstra, Philadelphia .387 Duncan, Cincinnati .382 Alomar, San Diego .371 Larkin, Cincinnati .364 Sabo, Cincinnati .354 Home Runs HR Dawson, Chicago 9 Bonilla, Pittsburgh 8 GDavis, Houston 7 HJohnsons, New York 7 Mitchell, San Francisco 7 Saves Saves Burke, Montreal 8 DaSmith, Houston 8 Franco, New York 7 MiWilliams, Chicago 7 Myers, Cincinnati 7 McDowell, Philadelphia...
...Young, not Dwight Gooden in cokerehab. The Kid diving into the fourth row for aseventh-row foul ball, not Gary Carter mugging forTV and irritating everyone with his golly-geefamily man routine. Straw slamming 35 taters, notDarryl Strawberry acting like a two-year-old.Nails hitting the miraculous round-tripper, notLenny Dykstra wigging out in the Pasta...
Ever since former Yankee Jim Bouton published his tell-all Ball Four in 1970, each succeeding season chronicle has been more graphic than the one before. The first entry in the 1987 baseball biography race came from Lenny Dykstra, a part-time centerfielder for The New York Mets. According to the Harper's index, the word "fuck" appears 160 times in the slim volume. That's a lot of profanity for a player with 127 hits in his career...
Roger Clemens is a great baseball player; neither he nor his co-author, ace baseball reporter Peter Gammons, are great writers. But the book's decent enough to read to your children. Imagine a five-year-old Dykstra fan hearing this piece of prose from his hero before bed: "We just said, 'Fuck it.' But it didn't work. Kevin Gross shoved the bats up our asses. We got shutout...