Barry Zito

No power, no personality, yet with no peer, the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki may be the greatest player to come out of Japan and the worst thing to happen to Japanese baseball

A mid-May housecleaning toned down the club's personality, and by ignoring the threat of a strike, Oakland played its way to the top of the AL West

The A's and Angels, baseball's two hottest teams, steamed into a September showdown that will decide who rules the West

In the closest Cy Young races ever, it's teammate versus teammate

"Strangest thing I ever saw in the Dome was Herbie and Gant in the World Series," says Dan Gladden, who still wears the mud flap of hair that fluttered behind him as he scored the winning run for the Minnesota Twins...