Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specter of free agency can make even a shrewd organization nervous. The Pittsburgh Pirates, with a core of fine young stars, got that now-or-never feeling this year. Why? Because slugger Bobby Bonilla is expected to become a zillionaire elsewhere this winter, and Most Valuable Player candidate Barry Bonds may walk next October. Pittsburgh, in a modest TV market, certainly can't afford them both. So the bucks -- and the Bucs -- stop here...
...hero if he is to get the most out of his prodigious natural ability. It may be that Daly's swing is too complicated and his game too reliant on intangibles to carry him to the level of his idol Nicklaus. But there is something heroic in the quotable slugger's triumph, and it would be a shame to see him become one of the legion of golf technocrats who threaten to turn the sport into a boring science. There may be a lesson for other pros in the enormous fan response to golf's new Sultan of Swing: people...
Lots of batters have charged the mound after getting hit by a pitch, but when Detroit outfielder John Shelby went after Boston's Roger Clemens last week, the slugger took his bat along on the trip for emphasis. That's a big no-no. Shelby, who was tackled by the catcher, earned an ejection and may be suspended...
Like a brash rookie slugger who can't handle big-league curves, the National sports daily struck out last week. The flashy tabloid, owned by Mexican media mogul Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, never really connected with readers and advertisers, and it lost $100 million in just 17 months of publication. Its problems were compounded by "an economic climate that was getting worse and worse," said editor and publisher Frank Deford. Declaring WE HAD A BALL on its final front page, the first U.S. daily devoted entirely to sports printed its final edition last Thursday...
Corked bats. Rampaging fans. Wife swapping. Not the sort of stuff that's found on baseball TRADING CARDS -- until now. The new Foul Ball series features some of baseball's most inglorious moments. Among them: slugger Norm Cash's confession that he used doctored bats, the nights on which beer-addled fans in Cleveland and Chicago forced forfeits, and the time when two Yankee pitchers swapped their wives, children and even family dogs...