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...moguls decided to make Sonique's first album, Hear My Cry, the debut release of Farmclub.com the new Internet-based label they launched last winter. Before Hear My Cry landed in record racks, Sonique's music was posted on the label website, and she performed to wild acclaim on Farmclub's late-night TV show. Fans showered the site with hits...
...Yankees, who lack farmclub talent, the team would have been crippled by the early-season miseries of Pitchers Don Gullett and Catfish Hunter had not the remarkable left arm of Ron Guidry saved the day. Guidry finished with 25 wins and just three losses, one of the best records in modern baseball history. There were other problems-there always are with the Yankees-but the team created by Owner George Steinbrenner's money managed to make one of the most remarkable comebacks in baseball history. New York rallied from 14 games behind the Boston...
...give baseball "my best shot." Mickey Jr. played for a Florida military academy in his teens, but feeling that he was "too immature to cope with the pressures of being Mickey Mantle's son," went off to sell insurance in Dallas. Now trying out for a Yankee farmclub team in Hollywood, Fla., he hopes to make up for lost time. So does his dad. "I was never around to work with him. I was always away," says Mantle Sr., 46. "But if he had had my dad teaching him and working him like he did me, he would...
...Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...
...their Bronx ballpark, and of the fact that even their stars seldom shine for more than a dozen years, the New York club owners could well hang over Yankee Stadium the sign: HELP WANTED. In the late '40s they were sending the word down through their scouting and farmclub network (today: some 30 scouts, ten farm clubs) to find a new crop of infielders, outfielders, pitchers and catchers for the Yankees...
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