Word: pendleton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait seemed interminable, the suspense unbearable, the foreboding all too palpable. Los Angeles police reported to their stations at dawn Saturday, ready for a replay of last year's arson and looting; 600 National Guardsmen gathered in armories to back them up; at Camp Pendleton 70 miles away, U.S. Marines had been practicing urban assault tactics in case neither the cops nor the National Guard could quench the flames of racial riot...
...positive pregnancy tests have tripled at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The expectant mothers include Desert Storm vets -- five of the six women in one unit. In San Diego 318 Marine wives have been sent to community hospitals for prenatal care because the docs at Camp Pendleton are swamped. Doctors at Fort Stewart, Georgia, expect to deliver 40 babies on Christmas -- three times the busiest day in memory. No more silent nights for those folks...
...pricey player for two or three prospects (as the Twins did last year, losing Frank Viola to the Mets and gaining three blossoming pitchers in return). Finally, if fortune is kind, the team will find a few middle-income free agents ready for superior years (Atlanta's Terry Pendleton, Minnesota's Jack Morris and Chili Davis). The 162-game plan: get the kids before they cost too much and the veterans because they know so much. Well, it worked...
PLAYER OF THE YEAR Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore80 Cecil Fielder, Detroit 37 Barry Bonds, Pittsburgh 14 Terry Pendleton, Atlanta 12 Frank Thomas, Chicago (AL) 10 Bobby Bonilla, Pittsburgh 7 Julio Franco, Texas 4 Howard Johnson, New York (NL) 4 Jose Canseco, Oakland 2 Paul Molitor, Milwalkee 2 Joe Carter, Toronto 1 Will Clark, San Francisco 1 Ron Gant, Atlanta 1 Tom Glavine, Atlanta 1 Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle 1 Reuben Sierra, Texas...
Nixon stole 72 bases until his suspension for drugs. Pendleton led the league in batting at .319 and hits with 187 and tightened the infield defense, as did Bream and shortstop Rafael Belliard, another free agent pickup...