Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MICKEY MANTLE FBI kept a file on the Yankee slugger. Did Hoover hope "switch hitter" meant something else...
...apology, while ambiguous, seems to admit to some wrongdoing. Yet after a quick deliberation last week, a jury of Vaughn's fans, er, peers, returned with a "not guilty" verdict, allowing Vaughn to hop the next flight to spring training and resume his place as the team's leading slugger. Since he had hit only an empty parked car and didn't do any personal damage, except perhaps to his reputation, most Boston fans would rather forgive Vaughn for his transgression and return him to the batter's box. No harm, no foul (unless the Sox don't make...
...asylum, Irabu was welcomed by his new teammates. "Hey, what's up, man?" third baseman Charlie Hayes said upon meeting Irabu. "He's a big old boy," said Cecil Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu...
...point came during a June 5 game in the central city of Gifu, when the burly Di Muro called two strikes on popular Chunichi Dragons slugger Yasuaki Taiho. Taiho didn't appreciate it much, and let Di Muro know it. Since American umpires take less guff than their Japanese counterparts, Di Muro tossed Taiho out of the game. That touched off a melee. The crowd jeered at the American, and coaches and players charged him. Taiho repeatedly shoved Di Muro in the chest. The end result: U.S. baseball officials called Di Muro home last week, while Taiho played ball...
...Muro affair is a reminder that the harmony between the U.S. and Japan is still fragile. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky certainly won't bother pushing Japan to take in American umpires the way Washington once demanded the country import more Louisville Slugger bats. But Japan's trade surplus with the U.S. is once again rising at an alarming rate. At this weekend's Denver summit of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations, the U.S. will push Japan to open its economy further. "Japan's bureaucrats talk all the time about how they have an open market and believe...