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...Bagwell, Gwynn, Griffey and Williams may yet have their years in the sun, but what really depresses is the realization that with every week and month of games lost, for all the fans still waiting patiently through this longest of rain delays, that many more foul balls don't get sprayed into the crowd, and kids like me, or real kids half my age, can't hold them aloft with the triumphant innocence of youth. And when baseball loses its youth, we won't have baseball...
...were working on felling some of the biggest trees in the record books, like Matt Williams, Frank Thomas and Tony Gwynn, the cancellation must have come as a cruel irony. Their chance at putting their names u on the mantle above most of their colleagues was destroyed by their willingness to get right in line behind negotiator Donald Fehr. These are the men that the owners are trying to fit for a salary cap, but they are the players who keep the game alive...
...homer-haven ball parks. Baseball's most hallowed record, Roger Maris' 61 homers in 1961, was in danger of being eclipsed. Five marquee-idol sluggers (Matt Williams, Ken Griffey, Frank Thomas, Barry Bonds and Albert Belle) were all on target to hit more than 50 home runs. Tony Gwynn -- the last star left in San Diego as the cash-starved Padres traded off their high-priced talent -- was in sight of the holy grail of a Ted Williams-style .400 batting average. How quickly a magical season was transformed into a haunting gallery of might-have-beens...
...National League managers were just as unhesitating. Bonds received nine of the 14 votes, the Cubs' Mark Grace got two, and there was one each for the Cubs' Ryne Sandberg, the Reds' Kevin Mitchell and the Padres' Tony Gwynn. Met skipper Dallas Green picked Bonds, saying, "It's pretty much a no-brainer, isn't it? Is there a better hitter in the game? There's not a pitch he can't handle. And he's got discipline and power." Phillie manager Jim Fregosi agreed and paid Bonds probably an even higher compliment, saying, "I'd probably walk...
...John Gwynn, 31, says that even before he resigned his commission, he felt most of his fellow officers on his nuclear submarine knew that he lived a double life. The submarine corps is highly educated, he notes, "and that seems to fight the ignorance." Of the 160 men on his boat, Gwynn suspects that at least five were known to be gay. But he felt that he was safe from being forced out of the closet. "It's different for officers -- you're one of the boys, and ((the officers)) can't deny that they liked...