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Excuse me, George, you know that guy on your team named Winfield, the one you wanted to trade before the season started because he wrote a book about his days as a New York Yankee...
...final scene is an early-morning meeting at one of those places that caters to the new "power breakfast" crowd. Several businessmen, just off the 6 a.m. shuttle, gather around a table. Before they get started, one man says, "could you believe the game last night. That Winfield homer was about a mile outside the park." The other men look up from their coffee, the edge of caffeine and sports giving an automatic adrenelin rush. An hour later they leave the restaurant, the deal unclosed, but secure in the knowledge that the Yankees have tied up the pennant...
...With Clark, Mattingly, Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson and Mike Pagliarulo in the lineup, the Yankees will send a lot of runs across the plate this year. The 1927 Yankees hold the record for the most runs scored in a season with 975. Assuming Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson stay in retirement, which player has scored the most runs in his major league career? Five points...
Some couples solve the problem by living and working apart and seeing each other on weekends. About 700,000 couples in the U.S. have such commuter marriages, says Fairlee Winfield, a professor of business at Northern Arizona % University. Despite the separations, some of which last ten years and longer, infidelity is apparently rare. Of 297 couples she surveyed, only 8% had affairs while apart; most polls put the national norm for adultery at about 26%. "The fact that they're willing to live with the arrangement indicates a high level of commitment to the marriage in the first place," explains...
...owner has consistently pursued tabloid headlines over winning strategies. Sure, winning is a fine means of getting in the papers. But there are many more reliable ways, such as punching an obnoxious fan, firing Billy Martin, releasing long and asinine letters to the press, rehiring Billy Martin, calling Dave Winfield "Mr. May," firing Billy Martin again, demoting established major leaguers to the minor leagues; and, finally, rehiring Billy Martin. Again...