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...comes to the game fully prepared. Like Dennis Rodman, he will block out anyone who tries to keep him from an offensive rebound. That is why all of the above play for Jerry Reinsdorf, a 60-year-old C.P.A. and attorney who owns the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox. And that is why Reinsdorf signed offensive-rebound Albert Belle last week to a five-year, $52.5 million contract that made the troubled slugger the highest-paid baseball player in history--and the owner the top vote getter in Hypocrite of the Year balloting...
...provides for interleague play and at partially levels the playing field between big- and small-market clubs with a luxury tax. Many hardline owners had opposed the plan on the grounds that it did not do enough to control rapidly escalating player salaries. They were led by Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who just days after railing about the need to cap spending signed Albert Belle to a five-year, $52.5 million contract that made the slugger the highest paid player in baseball. Reinsdorf again voted no on the proposal and was joined by Cleveland, Kansas City and Oakland...
...resolve the issues that caused the 1994 strike and set the league on a smooth course into the next century. The trouble was past, and even the bitterest fans could look forward to next season without trepidation. Apparently, no one told the owners. Owners of the Chicago White Sox and Cubs, Florida, Kansas City and Montreal are known to oppose the agreement, with Boston, Cleveland, Houston, Minnesota and Seattle seen as leaning against the deal. Eight votes against will doom the deal. And that means more of the status quo: no revenue sharing and no luxury tax, both measures aimed...
Auctioned items included tickets for American Airlines, the Boston Pops and the Boston Ballet, as well as signed Red Sox paraphernalia...
...those who, like me, grew up believing that baseball must be played in concrete monstrosities which seat 60,000 people. The Green Monster isn't quite as big as it looks on TV, but the small stadium makes this feel like old-time baseball. And since the Red Sox keep threatening to build a new, bigger stadium, check out this piece of Americana while...