A SPECIAL REPORT: THE ANGELS

By Helene Elliott and Steve Emmons

July 15, 1991 12 AM PT

MOTIVATED: Is Wally Joyner--who has shifted into overdrive with a .320 average, 11 homers and 58 RBIs--on a salary drive? Joyner, eligible for free agency after this season, will probably be rewarded with a huge contract, even though some free agents have signed for big bucks and then faltered. . . . A prime example: Padre Mark Davis led the National League in saves in 1989. He then got a four-year, $13-million deal with Kansas City--and promptly had a rotten year.

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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.

A SPECIAL REPORT: THE ANGELS

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