Fall Ball

By Steve Henson

Oct. 6, 1997 12 AM PT

The major-league baseball playoffs are in full swing, but top minor-league players are beginning off-season schedules in Hawaii and Arizona. Only big-league prospects are invited. Three Detroit Tigers farmhands--Bryan Corey (Pierce College), Robert Fick (Cal State Northridge), and Gabe Kapler (Taft High)--will room together while playing in the Hawaiian Winter Baseball League.

Fight at First

Fullmer will battle another familiar first baseman for the Expos’ starting job next year. Ryan McGuire (El Camino Real High) batted .256 for the Expos.

Best at First

Four first basemen with Valley ties were selected as minor-league all-stars: Kevin Millar of Encino in the Eastern League, Nate Dishington of Hoover High in the Carolina League, Andy Dominique of Alemany High in the New York-Penn League and Fick in the Midwest League.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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