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...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...
Optimistic as ever, the Nattering Nabobs are there; so are the Rubin Amaros and the Burn Bags. Half the Fine Tooners have flown in from London. The dangerous Moose Factory shows up, without Rickey Henderson for the first time in years. Forsaking children, spouses and all significant others, twelve contentious clans have gathered this daylight-savings Sunday in the sporting confines of O'Reilly's Pub in New York City for the most sacred event of their baseball calendar: not opening day or the seventh game of the World Series but draft day for the American Dreams...
...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...