Word: valenzuelas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kash Beauchamp, son of former major leaguer Jim Beauchamp, the first selection in the regular phase of the 1982 winter amateur draft. In contract news, Chris Speier signed a three-year deal with Montral, Dave Rozema signed a three-year deal with Detroit, negotiations between the Dodgers and Fernando Valenzuela have broken down with the two sides over half a million dollars apart, and the Red Sox have reportedly decided not to continue to pursue free-agent pitchers Rick Waits and Sid Monge...
...Fernando Valenzuela...
...prodigious year for the Los Angeles Dodgers' pitching prodigy Fernando Valenzuela, 21. In 1981 the chunky lefthander won a World Series victory; National League Rookie of the Year laurels; the Cy Young Award for the league's most outstanding pitcher; and to cap it all, the hand of Linda Margarita Burgos, an elementary schoolteacher from Merida, Mexico. Valenzuela, suited up in a black tuxedo, and Linda, dressed in a $3,000 gown, took their vows in the bride's home town. Valenzuela sneaked into the church by a back entrance to avoid a mob of well-wishers...
...began swelling from a slight fracture, and he sat out the next three games. Other small earthquakes awaited the Yankees in L.A., including real ones. "What were you doing during the earthquakes?" Steinbrenner was asked. "I was stamping my foot," he said. Nothing earthshakingly wrong with losing to Fernando Valenzuela, you understand, but after that 5-4 loss, George started really stamping his feet...
...Watson, Valenzuela, Nettles, Cey, Gossage. Any others...