BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

By HELENE ELLIOTT

May 8, 1991 12 AM PT

Winfield expressed sorrow over the death of Cedric Tallis. Once the Angels’ vice president for operations, Tallis was also general manaer of the Yankees and the Kansas City Royals.

“He was a nice man. I had a good relationship with him,” Winfield said. “He was one of those nice guys that worked in a tough organization.”

Yankee shortstop Alvaro Espinoza, who ranks among the AL leaders with a .323 batting average, sat out his second successive game Tuesday because of a sore neck.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

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