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...Florida, everybody believes in the magic of spring training. The optimism of the next few days--Joe Rudi can probably shag flies in the Florida sun as well as or better than Freddie Lynn; after all, he's been doing it longer--will be like a March afternoon spent in the stands at Chain-O-Lakes--pleasant, but not very meaningful...
...next six weeks, Sullivan and new manager Ralph Houk--who still had Lynn, Fisk, and Rick Burleson penciled in his opening day lineup when he accepted the job--will have to reconstruct a team that has not shown flashes of a winning attitude since September '79. Carney Lansford, acquired in the Burleson trade, will help, but the muddle up the middle (Hoffman? Nichols? Miller?) caused a recent caller to a Boston talk show to remark that "every ground ball hit over second base will turn into a triple...
...didn't all come from the Riverfront-Three River cookie cutter. Compared to left field, center in Fenway is the Wild West, a vast (almost 430 ft. to straight away center) and mysterious (a high wall that tapers down to the tiny bullpen barrier) piece of real estate. But Lynn studied it and had become its master. (If you're unimpressed, think about how many great centerfielders the Sox have had over the years. Not many.) After completing his fifth year in centerfield, his great catches--those no-one-else-but-Lynn-could-have-made catches--began to be greeted...
...Lynn will make only occasional appearances in Fenway's centerfield from now on, after having signed a four-year contract with the California Angels. No is suprised at the deal. He was either a free agent or about to become one, and the Red Sox seemed unable or unwilling to sign him. The free agent system makes perfect legal and moral sense; no business enterprise, a team or a plantation, should ever...
...more offensive when the experience of sports is so rudely corrupted as it was in the Lynn trade. Of course it made sense, but that doesn't matter at all. Maybe the generation that grows up reading sports pages full of free-agency, reserve clauses and deferred payments will have the same attitude toward sports as older fans. Maybe they will be orphans from the exhilaration of watching other people play sports; the ten-year-olds, after all, may decide that these are matters of little interest to ten-year-olds. The ballplayers and the owners, in their retracing search...