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...Mark McGwire, one of five A's with five or more hits in the series, drove in Canseco with an eighthinning single as the A's added two insurance runs. Don Baylor, playing for a third straight different team AL pennant winner, followed with a sacrifice fly and a weary Eckersley replaced Rick Honeycutt in the ninth to get his record-setting fourth series save...
Jose Canseco, who led the majors with 42 home runs and 124 RBI, homered for the second straight game and Mark McGwire hit an RBI single in the seventh for a 3-2 lead before Rich Gedman's home run in the bottom half of the inning tied...
...meal and hotel bills when the farm teams are on the road. The expenses add up: most franchises spend between $3 million and $4 million on their minor-league affiliates. The majors pocket none of the profits, but they do get the opportunity to develop, say, a Mark McGwire or a Jose Canesco, both graduates of the Oakland A's farm system and winners of Rookie-of-the-Year honors in the American League. But only 10% to 20% of all bush-league players ever make it to the "show," as they call the major leagues...
...Last year, Al home run king Mark McGwire and NL long-baller Andre Dawson clubbed 49 round-trippers each. Can you name the last American and National League sluggers to hit 50 homers in a season? (Take three points per hitter and one point for the number they hit.) Eight points...
...McGwire and Benito Santiago of the San Diego Padres were named rookies-of-the-year last season. Santiago, who hit .300 with 18 HRs, was the first catcher to be selected in either league since 1972. Can you name the last backstop to win the Rookie-of-the-year Award. Five points...