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Seconds after buying the spring's first box of baseball cards, I would spread the contents of each pack on a patch of thick grass at my elementary school as a kid. The number of cards being sold in 1988 would cover a whole natural grass infield...
Toronto (96-66, AL East, second): How often can the Jays choke? Here's a team with a solid bullpen (Tom Henke, Mark Eichorn and Harvard's own Jeff Musselman) but with some inconsistent starting pitching (Mike Flanagan?). Can MVP George Bell adjust to the DH slot? Can an infield that can't produce any offense, except for SS Tony Fernandez (.322), finally wake up? Best player: Bell...
Indeed, the loss of last year's seniors has set off a wide-open competition for some positions, especially in the infield. Freshman Beth Reilly is battling juniors Ellen Cox and Brita Lind for the thirdbase position, and on the other side of the diamond, Nancy Colbert and Beth McNamara are going for the first-base slot...
...greatest stability will be found in the middle infield. Baldauf and fellow Co-Captain Sharon Hayes, another member of the 1987 All-Ivy Team, will return as second-baseman and shortstop...
...Ferris wheel peeks over the roof into the stadium, and a roller coaster screams by third base. Though the infield grass is plastic, the place is handsome. "Almost too nice," says the pitcher Bret Saberhagen. "It doesn't feel like spring training." In the name of civic pride and the interest of land development, tin and wood are being traded everywhere for aluminum and concrete...