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...green cathedrals of what Annie Savoy in Bull Durham called "the Church of Baseball." The 1994 major league season may have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their long- dreaded strike, baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972. Never before have the games been...
...drug-rehab center. In recent years, Show apparently struggled with drugs and emotional problems, in dramatic contrast to his status a decade ago as the winningest pitcher the Padres had ever known; he led his team to their only National League pennant in 1984, and held the club strikeout record. The public may remember him best as the hurler who gave up Pete Rose's record 4,192nd career hit in 1985. In his typically offbeat way, Show simply sat down on the pitcher's mound while the crowd went wild...
...last recollection I will have from this year of baseball: Mitch Williams, another lefty Phillie reliever, punching the air in ecstasy after the same strikeout, in the same stadium, after another Game Six. And it's an ex-Royal, Bill Pecota, that goes down swinging...
...work at the plate is an exhausting war, too. Guess right and you can sock a bomb to left, touch the bases and come home a war hero. Guess wrong and it's the despair of a strikeout, or the frustration of a ground ball. Back into the dugout and slam your batting helmet against the concrete floor...
...majors with 271 1-3 innings pitched, won the AL ERA title for the third time in six years and won his second league strikeout title. He had 13 complete games, his most since 1988, and his four shutouts increased his total...