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...talents nor the physiques of the Indians. In fact, you might see better builds in the local country-club locker room than in the Atlanta clubhouse, which actually does have a miniature golf course. But as manager Bobby Cox says, "They may not look like much, but Greg Maddux, Mark Lemke, Tom Glavine, Rafael Belliard--those little guys can play for me any day of the week. We don't have a lot of superstars. But we do have a team...
...Maddux is not the hardest thrower in baseball, but he does have five pitches and total command of the strike zone. And as good as Maddux has become--he is about to win an unprecedented fourth straight Cy Young Award--he remains terribly unimpressed with himself. ''I just pitch," he says. The closest he'll come to a boast is this opinion expressed before the Series: "I like to think good pitching beats good hitting...
...Maddux and Belle do have something in common besides the fact that they're both 29. Belle, as befitting the son of two schoolteachers, is a student of baseball. He keeps detailed index cards on pitchers, and he spends as much time in the batting cage as anyone in the game...
There's one more thing that makes the Maddux-Belle confrontation enticing. Belle is still angry that the Braves passed him over in the 1987 draft because the team's general manager threatened to fire anyone who drafted him. The G.M. at the time was Cox, who eventually gave up his front-office duties to manage the Braves to World Series appearances--and losses--in '91 and '92. Says Cox: "Forget all that stuff about us being the Buffalo Bills of baseball. Forget all the Native American stuff. This Series is going to be about good old-fashioned hardball...
...physiques of the Indians," says Steve Wulf. "In fact, you might see better builds in the local country-club locker room than in the Atlanta clubhouse, which actually does have a miniature golf course. But as manager Bobby Cox says, 'They may not look like much, but Greg Maddux, Mark Lemke, Tom Glavine, Rafael Belliard--those little guys can play for me any day of the week. We don't have a lot of superstars. But we do have a team.'" The best in the world, in fact...