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...Jackson's epic recovery from hip-replacement surgery for real? (That Bo can play at all is a miracle, but it is still sad to see him as just another slow slugger without a defensive position...
...talent is a surprisingly difficult issue to analyze because the balance sheets of individual teams are as closely guarded as the intricacies of the CIA budget. Moreover, the ego rewards of owning a winning ball team dwarf the psychic payoffs from traditional business. Henry Aaron -- not the slugger but the Brookings Institution economist -- recently chaired a joint labor-management study commission that examined the finances of baseball. But even Aaron is uncertain whether teams are actually losing the money they claim. "I would like to know who owns the law firm that does the work for a team...
...other first-year Jays, pitcher David Cone and ageless slugger Dave Winfield, brought Toronto a 11-inning 4-3 victory in the finale. And while Atlanta's pennant flew at half-staff, Canada's flag was proudly unfurled right side up. Nice guys finish first...
...Toronto finally subject us to an all-Canadian World Series? And, will the Cincinnati Reds snap out of their current swoon in time to give the Atlanta Braves a run for Ted Turner's money? Oh, and how come the Oakland A's, riven with disabled players, traded stud slugger Jose Canseco to the Texas Rangers for a guy with chicken...
When he trotted out to right field at the top of the opening inning last Monday, talented but contentious Jose Canseco was playing for baseball's Oakland Athletics. But by the bottom of the first, the A's had traded the stunned slugger to the Texas Rangers for three players and a wad of cash. Said he: "I said to myself, 'This isn't April Fool's Day.' " It wasn...