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...welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias to hold the world record in a multiple-discipline event...
...Though Joyner failed to make the team, Jackson could quickly see that besides being bright and a little droll, he was "hitterish," and Reggie's interest extended to sending Joyner bats and calling him in Edmonton (home of the AAA Trappers). Again Joyner accumulated only a dozen homers for the season, but proceeding directly to a winter league in Puerto Rico, the smoothest left-hand swinger on the island hit 14 more in 54 games. Without a break, he continued on to the major leagues...
...week). But I could see he had the tools." The way Jackson looks at it, the tools are the minimum. "A lot of players have superstar capability," he says, "but how many have superstar copability? Some can pull their weight, but few can pull the wagon." When he says Joyner might be special, Jackson means very special indeed...
Wallace Keith Joyner, nearly 24 but as callow as a bat boy, is the latest contribution from Brigham Young University to the world's sweatshops. Chicago Bears Quarterback Jim McMahon and Boston Celtics Guard Danny Ainge may be hard to think of as latter-day saints, but Joyner is easily pictured on the side of the Angels, a paragon on the order of Atlanta Outfielder Dale Murphy. The gray manager of the Angels, Gene Mauch, 60, says, "Joyner has a graceful way about him, at bat, on the field and in the clubhouse...
...this way, he is a subtler find than fellow Phenoms Jose Canseco of Oakland and Pete Incaviglia of Texas, whose muscles show. "I didn't expect to hit 15 the whole year," Joyner admits. "I never think about hitting a home run. Sometimes I sit down, and it doesn't feel like I've ever hit one. I'm in dreamland. Because I've been playing baseball for a year straight now, I'm hard-pressed to think where everything started and stopped. But I've kept a fairly even keel, I hope, thanks to my family...