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...Contracts, schmontracts. Make work for a living. No more than half a million dollars can be given to any big leaguer in guaranteed salary; after that, it's all gotta be incentives. There's no reason that a guy like Jack Morris should be given the big money' cause he won 20 games for the best team in the league on a four-plus ERA a few years ago. Make him go out and earn it again--each and every year...
Gammill hands the ball to the pitcher, a foul-mouthed, hard-sliding former Little Leaguer from Pasadena, Calif., who spits tobacco juice on the president's high heels...
...while, the conceit works surprisingly well. Despite the heat he's capable of delivering, young Henry remains a Little Leaguer among the big leaguers -- shy, abashed at performing before vast crowds, befuddled by but eager to join in the adult male rituals of his teammates. There's a beamy gentleness about actor Daniel Stern's directorial debut (he also contributes a version of his klutzy Home Alone crook, this time playing an addled pitching coach), and there are finely tuned supporting performances by Amy Morton as Henry's mom and Gary Busey as a fading pitcher who takes...
George Brett has been one of the game's great clutch hitters, which served the Kansas City veteran well last week when he became only the 18th major leaguer ever to get 3,000 hits. Brett admits a little worry about his timing (the hit came in the season's final week), and Royals fans groused about his placement (during an away game). But maybe Brett had a plan; No. 3,000 came in Anaheim, California, not far from his home in Rancho Mirage...
...weren't writing and singing terrific songs that help define the new breadth of country music, Mary-Chapin Carpenter would be a member of its target market. An Ivy Leaguer (Brown) who grew up in exotic climes (Tokyo, Princeton) as the daughter of a publishing executive (Chapin Carpenter, a Life sachem), she played for tips in Washington clubs and made her first album, Hometown Girl, in 1987. The sound was clean and folky; the voice suggested Judy Collins after a long bus trip from Richmond to Baton Rouge. The album got airplay on college stations and public radio...