Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DETROIT--Kirk Gibson needed only one game to convince 51,437 opening-day fans in Tiger Stadium that he's worth every penny of the $4.1 million he wrested from Detroit in a bitter contract hassle over the winter...
...pressure on myself to justify all I went through over the winter," Gibson said. "The last day I can compare this with is the last game of the 1984 World Series. This doesn't happen very often...
Sarasota's Payne Park, winter home of the Chicago White Sox, seats just over 5000 baseball-starved fans. The overflow crowds drink beer and watch the contest from the roofs of their mobile homes beyond the outfield wall...
Spring baseball is a tradition in Sarasota, a retirement community of 51,000 people. Before the Red Sox moved to Winter Haven over two decades ago, the team used to train at Payne. At least one long-time Payne usher--who served as a batboy for Ted Williams--remains loyal, however. "I've always been a [Red] Sox fan, and I always will be," he says with a sense of finality...
This spring the noise level has been up. Even Gooden has heard the unfamiliar sound of cowhide meeting ash. But then, hitters forget every winter and have to be reminded every summer who the pitchers are. A young fellow named Floyd Youmans had a bright spring for Montreal and has pitched his way into the starting rotation. Maybe the best pitcher in baseball should dig up a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. There could be Strikeout games this summer...