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By HELENE ELLIOTT

Oct. 23, 1992 12 AM PT

Working home plate Thursday gave umpire Bob Davidson a chance to renew acquaintances with Toronto designated hitter Dave Winfield. When Davidson was playing baseball at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, Winfield was pitching for the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and Winfield struck him out. . . . Kelly Gruber, left woozy after a chin-first slide home in the seventh inning Wednesday, said he felt much better Thursday and was in the starting lineup at third base.

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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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