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Bonilla’s Meeting With Herzog Rescheduled for This Morning

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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ANAHEIM — 

Bobby Bonilla’s scheduled meeting Thursday with Angel Senior Vice President Whitey Herzog was postponed because Bonilla’s agent, Dennis Gilbert, was involved in an unexpectedly long trial in Montgomery, Ala.

Gilbert represented Oakland A’s outfielder Jose Canseco in a fraud lawsuit filed by the promoters of a baseball card show. Gilbert and his firm, the Beverly Hills Sports Council, were ordered to pay promoter Jim Pitts of Montgomery $207,000 in damages. Bonilla was with Gilbert to observe the trial, and the pair didn’t leave for California until late Thursday.

The meeting was rescheduled for 9 a.m. today at Anaheim Stadium.

Herzog had a lengthy meeting Thursday with Angel owners Gene and Jackie Autry to determine the club’s course in the free agent market. The Angels will be the third team to meet with Bonilla, who is expected to crash the $5-million average annual salary level. He talked to the Phillies and Mets last weekend.

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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.

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