Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price is the usual recompense: a paltry -- albeit eternal -- shift in allegiance. Since this is fiction, Joe resists more than most. But ultimately, how can an immortal soul compete with the gifts of youth, grace, coordination and tape-measure home runs...
Biotti deserves some kudos himself. The 6-ft., 4-in. righty befuddled the Elis with strong, tailing fastballs and a recently developed slider. He limited the Blue to four hits over six innings, surrendering only two runs during a slugger's afternoon...
Junior Rick Renninger looks like he will havethe first-base slot. The slugger hit .309 lastyear, and seven of his 17 hits went for extrabases. Renninger also has a good eye--he walked 20times...
...signed their historic arms accord. The President led the Soviet leader to a little study next to the Oval Office and produced a baseball that Joe DiMaggio had hoped to have autographed by Gorbachev at the state dinner the night before. Reagan was not just fulfilling the old Yankee slugger's request. He had a metaphor in mind. Are we, he asked, going to play ball? Yes, Gorbachev firmly agreed. Then the two men rejoined their top aides in the Oval Office for a critical hour-long bargaining session on ways to reduce their bloated arsenals of strategic weapons...
This week, those G.M.s are in Dallas for the annual baseball winter meetings, trading players just like I used to trade their cards. A left-handed pitcher for a righty slugger, a catcher who can hit for an ace reliever...