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...somewhat annoying to fans who regard being in shape as the minimum requirement for being a professional athlete. Every Friday home game this season that Atlanta Third Base man Bob Horner does not warp the scale past 215 Ibs., he gains $7,692.31. Ozzie Smith, the Cardinals' nimble shortstop, doubled his salary to $1 million. Fernando Valenzuela also won $1 milion, in arbitration against the Dodgers. Steve Carlton's, reaction was to renegotiate an even richer deal with the Phillies, making him the highest-paid pitcher in baseball ($1.15 million). After an off-year once, Carlton volunteered...
Gentlemen's Quarterly asked him to pose doing a buck-and-wing. But it's his new megabuck-and-change contract that really has St. Louis Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, 28, kicking up his heels. Last week "the Wizard of Oz," as he is known around Busch Stadium, doubled his old salary in a pact with the 1982 World Series-winning Cards that will make him the highest-paid shortstop in major league history: a reported $1 million a year. Oz's golden-brick road will run for at least the next three seasons...
Seeing the final game through child's eyes, the Cardinals' somersaulting shortstop, Ozzie Smith, said happily, "As a kid, you know how your pressure dream is always the seventh game of the World Series? The bases are loaded, two out, here's the pitch..." Maybe creaking a little from new age, Hernandez picked up Smith's thought and went on less cheerfully: "As a kid, that's right. But then you mature and start thinking like a man, and boyish dreams go away. Big-league ballplayers are mostly men, normal men with insecurities, doubts...
...Hall of Fame curator collected the black bat that Brewer Third Baseman Paul Molitor used to lash a record five hits in Game 1. Milwaukee's marvelous Shortstop Robin Yount, the only player in the 79-year history of the World Series ever to have two four-hit games, was glad to chip in. He does not save things. When a Milwaukee fan caught his home run in Game 5 and tried to give the baseball back, Yount told him, "Why don't you keep it? I'll sign it for you." As the man floated away...
...loveliest expression of the season was Don Sutton's line in the Milwaukee clubhouse when the winning pitcher went looking for Shortstop Robin Yount and someone wanted to know how Sutton expected to locate a pip-squeak like Yount in the crush of these burly Brewers. "That's easy," said Sutton. "Robin Yount stands taller than anybody I've ever played with...