Owners' League News

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12/20/96 The Ghiotto meeting: Candies spend! (with trade rules) 12/23/96 Flowers: The Mob Visited My House! (in Italian) 01/05/97 The Loan Auction 01/19/97 The Trades Deadline 02/01/97 Brokers Win !!!

With the Freeze deadline approaching --March 7--, owners keep themselves quite busy these days, trying to reshape for the best their nine-men lists. After the big-names trading flood of a couple of weeks ago (see the Trades List Page for details), another meeting was held last Friday at the well-known Pizzeria Napoleone. Two important issues were on the table: the Trip to the Promised Land, and definition of some new rules for the next season. As for the latter, a new rule was implemented, regarding a reserve list made of five rookies, two of which can be freezed at the end of the season, in addition to the usual nine, if they still possess rookie status. As for the former, the journey is definitely taking shape, with some change of schedule due to ticket-booking problems. Toronto was erased from the original plans in favor of Minneapolis, but the owners have secured themselves beautiful games anyway.
Also, six players were traded: Cal Eldred of the champions Brokers was traded to the Bucks for David Wells and Jose Canseco, and Felipe Lira went from the Christians to the Brokers for Derek Jeter and John Wasdin.

You can see all the statistics of the 1996 DiamondMind Baseball Championship; they are provided, as usual, by courtesy of the Flowers Home Page.

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For a complete recap of all the year's trades, see the Trades List Page, which appears thanks to the Flowers' archive site.