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Shapiro is eight years into a related addiction, Rotisserie League Baseball, invented by LIFE managing editor Dan Okrent and named for a defunct Manhattan restaurant. This week Shapiro joins 11 otherwise sane "club owners" at a tavern for a fantasy auction of every player in the American League. The pennant winner shows the best aggregate statistics at season's end. Shapiro hopes that reporting for this week's story will give him a scouting edge...
...star-crossed Cleveland Indians, a young team that has not won a pennant since 1954, recover from the tragic death of two pitchers in a late- March boating accident? (Yes, if there is any justice in the game...
...Pittsburgh Pirates' spring-training camp in Bradenton, Florida, should have been alive with the bristling confidence of a pennant contender. After all, the black-capped Pirates have won more games than any other team in the 1990s and, in Sisyphean fashion, came within one agonizing out of making it to last year's World Series. Instead, leaning against the batting cage, Pirate manager Jim Leyland talked bravely about "looking forward to the new challenge of putting this team together." The sad truth is that the proud Pirates have been decimated by the exodus of free agents...
...likes it there? Is this the same Chicken Man who did all the promos for the Jimmy fund and was the idol of every sandlot hitter in New England? Do you realize, Mr. Boggs, that you're wearing the same uniform that Bucky Dent donned when he killed our pennant hopes...
...night during baseball season are the metaphysical ones. Think about this for a moment...The Red Sox finally complete their 75 year quest for World Champions. Clemens and the rest fight triumphantly past the Blue Jays, the A's and the National League to bring home a series pennant. Boston goes bonkers for a few weeks and hundreds of baseball authors find themselves scurrying desperately for new plots...