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...midwestern friend Sean "Dustbowl State" Wissman, for example, politely inquired on these pages Tuesday what might be the possibility of Cal Ripken Jr. hitting...
...resident of Birdland--Oriole territory, as translated for our Royal neighbors here at Harvard--I'd like to clear up a few things about the Ripken story that might have escaped Mr. Wissman's attention...
...player's position. Batters also, in fact, must field. I should qualify that. Batters like, say, Cecil Fielder, play defense in their spare time. Certain natural fielders, though they are not Fielders, are also granted one of those nine vaunted spots on a lineup card. For ten years, Cal Ripken Jr. has held his spot at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles...
...course, there is a third option. The major and minor leagues could begin to allow the use of aluminum. A person needs to go no further than to imagine Cal Ripken Jr. actually hitting .300 to realize that this would be a mad, radical, and lamentable experiment...
Logic argues that, sooner or later, player salaries have to eclipse revenues for small-market clubs. In the past decade, baseball salaries have escalated nearly as fast as inflation in Russia. The going rate to re-sign superstars who anchor a franchise (Kirby Puckett with the Minnesota Twins, Cal Ripken with the Orioles) has doubled in the past two years, from $3 million to $6 million a season. Up until now, most owners have managed to keep ahead of their exploding payrolls thanks to ever rising franchise values, a threefold leap in marketing revenues, a 25% jump in ball-park...