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From: radio@spuxll.UUCP (Rick Farina)
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Subject: Re: Major League Trivia; Gooden signs
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 12:25:24 EST
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The two 1984 major leaguers who have never played in the minor leagues: 
Dave Winfield and Bob Horner.

The former star who was also never a minor leaguer, and who was 
Dwight Gooden's boyhood idol: Al Kaline.

I've heard that a new member will be added to this group this year.
He'll play second base for the Indians, but I don't recall his name. 
Any Indians fans out there?

And speaking of Gooden, the Mets after much delay finally signed him to a 
one-year contract worth up to 500K. Let's say that Gooden continues to rewrite 
record books every year. Are the Mets going to repeat this courting rite
every spring, until -- gasp -- he is finally elligible for free agency and 
demands 49% of the francise. Why don't the Mets do with him what the 
Edmonton Oilers did with Gretzky at the start of his career: lock him
up with a 20-year contract? Is it that baseball as a business doesn't 
lend itself to such contracts? Can Doubleday simply be more conservative 
than Peter Puck? Are the Mets reserving Number 99 for Shawn Abner?? :-)