Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winning season last year. The Pirates blame this paradox largely on soaring players' salaries, which cost $24 million, or 52% of the club's revenues, last year. To make ends meet, Pittsburgh cut more than $7 million from its payroll by trading 20-game winner John Smiley and letting slugger Bobby Bonilla become a free agent...
...beautiful Memorial Stadium with gorgeous Oriole Park at Camden Yards. So the seats are wider and the aisles are larger. The upper deck looks a lot like Wrigley's, with open-air fences in the back. The B&O Warehouse behind right field brings a smile to every slugger's lips; you can reach it with a 460-foot bomb. 'Nuff said. Walk in and you'll be intoxicated...
Though the 1991 Crimson finished a more promising 21-17, mishaps continued. Seconds before Harvard's takeoff to its new spring break destination, Fort Meyers, slugger Bev Armstrong had not yet boarded the plane...
...when the purists have finished gazing longingly at the historic red brick building, they can fix their eyes on the grass (home grown, one Oriole official reminded me, in Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore) in right-center field, where the parents of legendary Yankees' slugger Babe Ruth once reportedly ran a tavern...
...legions of elite athletes like Simpson, California remains the land of upward mobility. The state has produced legions of homegrown sports stars (sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, high diver Greg Louganis, slugger Darryl Strawberry) and has polished the skills of legions more who moved to California to train (swimmer Janet Evans, decathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, volleyball player Karch Kiraly). From title-winning ice skaters (Debi Thomas) to record-setting long jumpers (Mike Powell), from Olympic champion swimmers (Matt Biondi) to gold-medal skiers (Bill Johnson), California is the American sports machine. Nearly 30% of the U.S. athletes at the 1988 Summer...