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...somewhere at a hitherto unthinkable $70, more than a quarter of a team's entire budget. The view around the league is that the Amaros, the preseason favorite with a formidable squad of returning wall bangers, need only to sign Henderson to have a nearly preemptive claim on the pennant...
...when Chicago won a divisional pennant, the team appeared on national television wearing a big "SOX" across the front of polyester stretch uniforms with numbers on its pants. For once, the White Sox were taken seriously...
That's what I love about baseball in April. Every team in the league thinks it has a chance of winning the pennant. Even the Brewers...
Also, none of the 1985 pennant teams were able to repeat in 1986. Unlike other decades, the 1980s have not produced a legitimate baseball dynasty...
...Daryl Strawberry of the Mets is considered to be one of the bright young sluggers in the National League. Many remember his monstrous homer two years ago in St. Louis off of John Tudor in extra innings to keep the Mets in the Pennant race. Or his homer in Game Seven of the 1986 World Series? Last year, Strawberry had 27 regular-season round-trippers and finished third in homerun ratio (he had 5.68 homeruns for every 100 at bats). The Phillips's Mike Schmidt finished, but can you name the other slugger who topped Strawberry's mark...