Word: journeyman
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David Wells, the paunchy, disheveled, 35 year-old journeyman retired 27 Minnesota Twins in order, for three hours captivating a crowd of 50,000 New Yorkers on a grey, gloomy Sunday afternoon in the Bronx...
...more common is the plight of a skater like Trevor Allman, who could qualify as college hockey's version of the journeyman. The freshman forward has played on eight separate line combinations and with nine different Crimson forwards--and you wonder why it might have taken until Sunday night for him to pick up his first two assists of the season...
Moakley, who has devoted his career to public service, is cut from the same mold as his old friend and mentor, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the former House Speaker. At age 15 Moakley volunteered for the Navy and fought the Japanese in the South Pacific. The journeyman politician hasn't fallen behind: in September, he introduced the Community On-Line Act, which would provide grants to community buildings that hook up to the Internet...
...ears hair had turned the tide, though Pitts was convinced Clinton's hair was not short enough and was too pointed on the top. He would have helped Clinton, claiming that "my scissors are neither Republican nor Democrat," but by then he was hopelessly pegged as a Republican journeyman. He gathered up his tools and returned full time to his shop in the nearby Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, where other famous clients, including former Secretaries of State William Rogers and James Baker, came in for their $25 trims along with free advice on world and national affairs...
...player's demand; he is not allowed to split the difference. What this has meant in practice over the years is that each time a spendthrift owner like George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees pays a no- hit, no-field free-agent shortstop $2.5 million, every journeyman infielder can successfully argue for the same salary in arbitration. So the only way a team in a small market -- like the Padres in San Diego -- can adhere to its de facto salary cap is to trade off young players the moment they become eligible for arbitration. (The San Diego payroll...