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...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...
They should have been joined by the entire cast from 1995: Cal Ripken, Hideo Nomo, Mo Vaughn, Randy Johnson, Trammell and Whitaker--even Mickey Mantle. The season just past is as worthy of celebration as the Braves...
There were other nice stories in baseball this year: the arrival from Japan of Nomo, the revival of the franchise in Seattle, the retiring of the Detroit Tigers' longtime double-play combination of Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell. The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, who between them have 164 years without a world championship, teased their fans for a while. Even the death of Mantle in August had a sweetness to it, as people called him up to mind the way the Yankees called...
...Series; and perhaps the Yankees. The National League will have the pleasure of the company of pitcher Greg Maddux and the Atlanta Braves; the return of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine; and a choice of two of these three: the three-year-old Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Dodgers (Nomo, no less) and the Houston Astros. Had Major League Baseball retained the old two-division setup in each league, with no wild card, the Red Sox would not be in the postseason, and the mediocre Philadelphia Phillies would...
WELCOME TO THE SHOW was plastered all over the Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, which is where the virtues and vices, the chaos and order, the light and dark side of baseball came together for the All-Star Game. The "Tornado," Hideo Nomo, touched down, of course, and everyone was eager to see the Dodgers' Japanese rookie with the outrageous windup and the diabolical fork ball. But while Nomo was tailed by 150 Japanese journalists and almost as many American ones, a bookish-looking Atlanta Brave went largely unnoticed, even though Greg Maddux is the best pitcher of this generation. That...