Word: rickey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yankees suffered major injuries to their first two hitters in the lineup--outfielder Rickey Henderson [right hamstring strain] and second baseman Willie Randolph [torn knee cartilage and eventual surgery], who missed a combined 109 games...
...YORK--Don Mattingly hit a grand slam and Rickey Henderson and Claudell Washington also homered to lead the New York Yankees to an 9-1 victory over the Texas Rangers yesterday. It was the Yankees 14th win in 16 home games...
...Butler, a .278 hitter with little power but who swiped 32 bases, goes for $22. Yankee Slugger Don Mattingly goes for $45; Baltimore Catcher Terry Kennedy for $14. Henderson, year in and year out the Rotisserie League's Mr. Everything, comes up fourth. The bidding is fierce, quickly passing Rickey's previous salary of $53. Given the finite money pool of $3,120, the large number of top players in this year's draft would seem to make each one less valuable. But Rickey is immune to the iron laws of economics, and he boldly goes where...
Without hesitation, they pass. "It would ruin our salary structure," they explain. The high bid belongs to Hugh Sweeney's Wssox, so attention now focuses on the Moose Factory, Rickey's employer the past two seasons and the holder of topping rights to his salary. For $1 more, Mooser Alex Patton, the league's winningest owner, can have his star player back for two more years at $70. But Patton passes too. The league breathes a double sigh of relief...
...meeting breaks up -- it is the only time during the season the owners ever see one another face to face in a group -- the postmortems are immediately held. The Amaros are still the favorites, but they didn't put it away with Rickey; the Nova, the Hackers and the BB Guns are going to be tough; the pesky Moose Factory will probably be there at the end, as usual. Prices for the best players were surprisingly high, everyone agrees, and there were amazing bargains at the end. "I feel we've created a misshapen monster," says Patton, who contributed...