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Contents: June Draft Report/1990 (Will Atlanta take a shortstop with the first pick in the draft? The Show assesses this year’s amateur talent and reviews past drafts. Plus Bruce Gardner’s story of broken dreams and suicide, and the No. 1 pick that never made it); The Stuff That Stars Are Made Of (A Classic from the Saturday Evening Post. Connie Mack managed the Philadelphia Athletics for 50 years and along the way learned to know a great ballplayer when he saw one. The first of a special series); Mighty Mites (An examination of baseball’s little men reveals that dynamite often comes in small packages); Family Affair (In the debate over genetics versus environment, the question remains: To what end is baseball prowess inherited within the family? And meet the Boones, on the way to becoming the first three-generation big league clan); Around The Horn (Commissioner Fay Vincent says “hitting a baseball is the sublime physical act”. Hitting gurus Walt Hrinik, Harry Walker, Dusty Baker and Billy Williams discuss the craft and its masters); Leather (Forget about lights at Wrigley and cuspidors in the Skydome. The most significant development in the game is the fielder’s glove. An excerpt from The Fielders. Profiles – Sandy Alderson: The A’s New Breed GM (The antithesis of a “baseball man”, Oakland’s hip GM, Sandy Alderson, has built the strongest franchise in baseball – wearing sweatpants); Dwight Evans: The Consummate Professional Ballplayer (Ted Williams, Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski. They all played their entire careers in Boston and never won a World Series. This season Red Sox lifer Dwight Evans enters his fourth season in the organization, and though he shows few signs of wear, his ticket for a championship ring is winding down); Calvin Griffith: Last Of The Dinosaurs (In a tearful pregame ceremony in 1984, Calvin Griffith announced the sale of his Minnesota Twins and rode off into the Metrodome sunset on the back of a golf cart. His tracks were that of a dying breed) Departments – Tug On This; Historical Perspective; By The Numbers; Where Have You Gone…; Catch A Rising Star; Media; Alumni News; Collectibles; Scouting; Bullpen
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