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4D Sports: Baseball The Jackson Sun, Jackson, Wednesday, March 2, 1988 Free agents stay with home teams Baseball notes VfcA Velez. I'm still too young." Bell agreed to a two-year contract for a guaranteed $4.1 million last month. "They think that just because they pay me a lot of money, they can make me do whatever they want," Bell said. "Well, they can't. Maybe I won't play quite so hard." The Associated Press Six of the seven free agents given a "new look" at free agency by arbitrator Thomas Roberts have decided not to look back.

Tuesday was the final day the seven players covered by Roberts' Jan. 22 ruling could switch teams, and all except Kirk Gibson elected to stay with their current clubs. Gibson, who was to receive $1.3 million this season from the Detroit Tigers, signed a three-year contract last month with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The only other free agent to attempt to leave his current club was Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox, who wanted to go to the Kansas City Royals. Fisk, who has a one-year with Chicago, wanted $1.2 million from Kansas City.

The Royals offered $800,000. George Bell doesn't want To- Long Blocks in AP Laserphoto Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens works out in Winter Haven, recently. Clemens' key to winning easy good fastball, I might even try to punch (strike) out a couple of hitters to get things going," he added. He said that when he first came to the Red Sox in 1984, less than one year out of Texas, "I tried to throw the ball past the hitters down the middle of the plate." "I found out you can't do that," he said. "No matter how hard you throw you have to have off-speed pitches.

The breaking ball makes your fastball much better, more WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox makes winning baseball games sound simple. "When you've got the ball in your hand, you have to control the game," the two-time Cy Young Award winner said Tuesday after a long workout. Clemens, who has won 44 games the past two seasons, said that the first thing he tries to do when he takes the mound is "establish momentum." "If I don't have my real Bailer comes back from brush with death Buick 231 V-6: Fits most 79-'80 cars Chevrolet 350 V-8: Fits most '68-'84 cars. Ford 302 V-8: Fits most 79-'80 cars.

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Stein did not attend a press confer-ence called to announce the sale. He was scheduled to visit Memphis on Wednesday. Fogelman, who owns and manages a real estate business headquartered in Memphis, said he sold the Chicks because he is too busy to direct the team. "I have felt frustrated for not being able to give any more time to the Chicks I sold the team for the good of baseball in Memphis," he said. Fogelman has owned the Chicks for 11 years.

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