Jackie Moore

Free agents in a special Florida camp wanted only to get out of there and onto a new club

"It's easy, I know, for a manager to sound optimistic in the spring," A's boss Jackie Moore said almost apologetically, "but I'll be honest with you. I'm really excited this time around." Moore needn't have been so...

So the A's fired Steve Boros as manager last week because he wasn't tough enough. "You don't have to be an ornery, cantankerous kind of guy to be a good manager," said pitcher Steve McCatty, "but you do have to show...

•Jackie Moore, Toronto Blue Jay coach, on being told John Kenneth Galbraith was on the same airline flight: "Oh yeah, I remember him. Short guy, mustache, played third base for Pittsburgh."