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Another bright spot for the Crimson was that many of the players on the team's large roster saw action yesterday...
Call them what you will--replacement players, opportunists, scabs--but, hey, they spent six weeks of spring training playing hard and praying even harder. Each would receive $25,000 if he made the opening-day roster and his team actually played a game. But these guys weren't in it for the money, at least not so much as the warring parties were. A few days before the scheduled start of the season, the Florida Marlins' 38-year-old replacement first baseman, Rick Lancellotti, said, "It's like they gave us a Mercedes without the keys. But at least...
...named a Mexican drug lord to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list, the first time an international drug trafficker ever made the roster. Juan Garcia-Abrego, whose Gulf Cartel has shipped tons of Colombian cocaine to the U.S., is under investigation for bribing a former Mexican deputy attorney general to protect his organization. That official, Mario Ruiz Massieu, is now the center of a massive corruption scandal that has shakenMexicoto the core. Ruiz Massieu's brother, a top political official, was murdered in September, allegedly in a plot masterminded by the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Ruiz...
Even as baseball players continue to strike, bullish owners are plotting to put new teams on the field in Phoenix and Tampa Bay by 1998. Owners tomorrow will decide whether to add the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks to the major league roster. Phoenix Mayor Skip Rimsza told TIME Daily the strike has not dampened the excitement in his city. "It's not over till it's over," said Rimsza. Back on the picket line, the National Labor Relations Board tomorrow is expected to validate an unfair labor practice charge filed by the players...
...with its presence the first weekend in February. Following the example of the late drummers Art Blakey and Art Taylor, Jones has turned the drum stool, into a throne from which the imperiously leads a rotating band of young burners under the rubric of The Jazz Machine. While the roster of Jazz Machine veterans is not quite sostar-studded as that of Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Jones has cultivated a consistent level of intensity, swing and sheer volume in his various bands. Even though its members are not very well known, the current edition of The Jazz Machine (now together...