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...monument. They had been paying Ernie to be Ernie. (Who better for the job?) Seeing other uses for the money, Green asked waivers on tradition and began redoing his roster in ex-Dodgers and ex-White Sox and ex-Red Sox and ex-Phillies most of all. Notably Second Baseman Ryne Sandberg, Leftfielder Gary Matthews, Rightfielder...
...legacy of the old team that went out together was this young team that grew up together, and grew up in the major leagues. Strength through the middle is baseball's eternal ideal, and the model today is the Tigers' Catcher Lance Parrish, Shortstop Alan Trammell, Second Baseman Lou Whitaker and Centerfielder Chet Lemon. Probably it has to do with the nature of runaway races, but none of them seems quite as considerable now as he did in the spring or even last year. Trammell hit over .300 but missed more than 20 games without being missed tremendously...
...American League's West Division, the most admirable or deplorable in baseball, turned on small events. Loath to blame each other, California's affluent Angels considered themselves scuttled on fan appreciation day by an unappreciative fan who stayed with a foul pop-up even though Third Baseman Doug DeCinces had clearly called for it. This precipitated an extra-inning loss to Texas and so unnerved the Angels that they dropped the first three games of the climactic four-game series in Kansas City. Meanwhile, players of lesser means and greater resilience, the Minnesota Twins, were undone...
Castillo then hit a bouncer to shortstop Onix Conception, who threw to second baseman White to force Evans at second. But White's relay to first was a shade late as Lemon scored the game's only...
...Crimson also has some powerful bats. First baseman Elliott Rivera (.389, 39 RBI, seven homers) leads the team in everything except triples and runs scored. Rivera needs just one RBI to tie Harvard's single-season record, set by former Crimson star and rising Montreal Expos prospect Mike Stenhouse in 1977. Weller (.356, 34 RBI, five homers) needs just two more runs scored to tie the season mark set by Ed Durso '75. Weller already holds the career record for runs scored with...