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Kansas City (Saberhagen...
...Ferris wheel peeks over the roof into the stadium, and a roller coaster screams by third base. Though the infield grass is plastic, the place is handsome. "Almost too nice," says the pitcher Bret Saberhagen. "It doesn't feel like spring training." In the name of civic pride and the interest of land development, tin and wood are being traded everywhere for aluminum and concrete...
Being Bret Saberhagen, 21, would not be too terrible either. Saberhagen and his wife both delivered dramatically last October, a bracing baby boy and a bouncing Kansas City championship. (And she's pregnant again.) Or how about Cincinnati's Tom Browning, 25, the first rookie 20-game winner in more than 30 years? Or Orel Hershiser, 27, of the Los Angeles Dodgers, in his third season already a millionaire? All of them have realized in a short time things that have eluded good pitchers over long careers, and one of them is more than special. Gooden is not alone among...
...Bret Saberhagen's teammate, iconoclastic Relief Pitcher Dan Quisenberry, cannot ordinarily resist such deep discussion, but he has a simple view of Gooden's class. "Joseph Heller used the phrase in a book title: Something Happened. That's it. About every decade or so in pitching, a little group shows up with something special, a secret recipe. They have something a lot of guys with great arms never get. And this time, whatever it is, Gooden got most of it. It's not fair...
Royal Bret Saberhagen was the monkey maker. Cardinal Starter John Tudor, the humorless winner of Games 1 and 4, reacted to being knocked out in the third inning by slugging an electric fan with his pitching hand and, against all odds, finishing the season in stitches. Besides surrendering the first ten days of next year and a fine of $500, Andujar can also expect a bill from the Royals for a battered toilet. It turned out the Cardinals had feet of porcelain...