MINI-MANIA? The days of Fernandomania are gone,...

By Jerry Hicks, Cristina Lee and Helene Elliott

Feb. 5, 1992 12 AM PT

MINI-MANIA? The days of Fernandomania are gone, but Fernando Valenzuela is convinced that he can still pitch big-league baseball. The former Dodger, above, was 0-2 for the Angels last year and 3-3 for Edmonton, the Angel farm team, where he finished the season. . . . But his agent, Tony DeMarco, is trying to get him invited to 1992 spring training with another club. “Fernando’s goal is to play somewhere this year and continue his career,” DeMarco says.

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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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