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Atlanta's Greg Maddux on Monday won the award given to the National League's best pitcher for the fourth straight year. The ace of the Braves' pitching staff dominated the league this year, with an NL-high 19 wins and a 1.63 earned run average, and led the Braves to their first world championship since 1957. The diminutive Maddux, who TIME's Steve Wulf calls "the best pitcher of his generation," beat out several others including Hideo Nomo, the Los Angeles Dodgers Rookie of the Year...
CHICAGO CUBS Under old two-division system, Cubs would have won NL East...
...more correct, an anti-Mets fan. And in 1987, I was kinda partial to the Cinderalla Dodgers, NL West rivalries being dormant as they were...
...strike can't go on forever, and at least some owners will want to crack first. Small-market teams like Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Montreal will need to drink from their primary pool of income, gate receipts, very soon. The irony is that Montreal was at the top of the NL East, yet they couldn't fill Olympic Stadium. The answer is simple; move the team south where people care. A serious profit-sharing initiative, such as those in place in both the NFL and NBA, will have to be implemented to save small market clubs...
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