Word: hernandez
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...ranking contenders (Cruiserweight Carlos "Sugar" DeLeon, from Puerto Rico, is world champion). Almost 100 of the roughly 1,000 players in major league baseball at the beginning of the season were born in Latin America. A Hispanic All-Star team might include Pitchers Fernando Valenzuela, Joaquin Andujar and Willie Hernandez; Infielders Rod Carew, Damaso Garcia and Dave Concepcion; Outfielders Tony Armas and Pedro Guerrero...
...family is in the U.S.," says Francisco Xavier Rivas, 36, who runs an industrial park in Mexicali. "It's interesting when we get together. Those from the U.S. speak almost no Spanish, those from Mexicali speak so-so Spanish, while those from Mexico City speak very good Spanish." Cathy Hernandez, 29, was born in Juarez but went through high school in El Paso. She is an international banking officer at the First City National Bank of El Paso. Her husband Javier, 32, works as a supervisor at a racetrack in Juarez and speaks little English. They live in El Paso...
...double play," barks Third Baseman Ray Knight. Joey Amalfitano, the Dodger coach at third base, wigwags some semaphore to Scioscia, who flicks his helmet to signal message received. Gooden looks at Knight and mouths, "Squeeze bunt?" Knight looks at Amalfitano and says, "Too obvious." At first base, Keith Hernandez gives thought to visiting Gooden, but reconsiders. "What am I going to tell him? Bear down?" Bearing down, Gooden makes Scioscia foul out to Carter on the first delivery, a fourth fast ball...
...ninth, Valenzuela also loads the bases with no outs. But they are emptied by singles that include Gooden's third of the game. The final score is 4-1. "That's the first time in my career that I ever saw a pitcher fire up the offense," muses Hernandez afterward. He refers to Gooden's pitching, not his hitting. "Oh, I love to hit," Gooden says. "When the Mets drafted me as a pitcher, I was upset. The Pirates had timed me running the bases, the Angels too. Why couldn't I be a hitter?" That cinches...
...their suppliers are the direct targets of the new investigation, reports that a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh is about to hand down several embarrassing indictments helped time Ueberroth's announcement last week. "Accelerated it," using his phrase. For four months, athletes as eminent as the Mets' Keith Hernandez, the Yankees' Dale Berra, the Orioles' Lee Lacy and the Expos' Tim Raines have been trooping to the witness stand in Pittsburgh, setting the city to whispering about drug sales transacted right in the clubhouse. If a player is implicated in any crime, immunity from prosecution may not protect him from...