Playboy's 1989 Baseball Preview

Playboy's 1989 Baseball PreviewNineteen Eighty-Eight was The Year the Ball Died. After a 1987 season in which the hitters feasted, the hurlers reasserted themselves with a little help from a ball that went nrf. It was also The Year of Bleeding Blue. After a summer in which the Mets and the Athletics strode from coast to coast, rumbling "Fee, fi, fo, fum," they were struck down in quick succession by a gimp, a choirboy and 23 Dodgers dwarfs. If 1988 proved anything, it was that baseball...