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The power of team chemistry. When the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East dropped 24 of their first 36 games this spring, it seemed the epitaph for a talented but erratic team. Renewal began with a new manager (soft-spoken Cito Gaston) whose unflappable style helped inspire the...
The meek shall inherit the earth. In a rational universe, the Orioles (losers of 107 games last year) have no business nipping at the Blue Jays' heels. Aside from their lone star, indestructible shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., the O's represent an amalgam of rookies and major-league rejects. A...
Perhaps these feverish pennant races are baseball's way of recompensing its loyal fans for the disgrace of Pete Rose and the specter of a strike next spring. But for the moment, the game is glittering like the Wrigley Field diamond in sunlight, as the schedule decrees that the season...
Finally, Jeff Musselman '85, the 1985 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Pitcher of the Year, was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays to the New York Mets in August. The former Harvard ace, who completed an alcohol rehabilitation program this year, is currently 3-2 with a 3.38 ERA in 16...
THE times, however, seem to be changing. The National League just named as its president Bill White, a former ballplayer who was one of the few Blacks to break successfully into broadcasting. Doug Williams and Randall Cunningham are definitively removing all doubts about Black QBs. And earlier this year, baseball...