[Our man in washington]

When Boggs was a minor leaguer with the Red Sox, he was left unprotected one year, which means any team could have claimed him for $50,000.

Sandberg was the extra player the Phillies tossed in to the Larry Bowa-Ivan DeJesus trade.

Judging talent is an imperfect science.

[wireman]

"Sandberg was the extra player the Phillies tossed in to the Larry Bowa-Ivan DeJesus trade."

Dallas Green should have been arrested for grand larceny when he left Philadelphia to go to the Cubs and pulled off that trade.

That was the beginning of the end of the Phillies as a regular contender.

[Mannaggia l'America]

Sandberg was the extra player the Phillies tossed in to the Larry Bowa-Ivan DeJesus trade.

Judging talent is an imperfect science.

Unfortunately for the Phils, the talent was judged perfectly. Dallas Green went to the Cubs as GM in 82 and made the trade.

Before Green became the Phils manager in '79, he was the director of their farm system and knew all about their young players (and the Phils had a good farm system in the late 70's and early 80's).

Green as GM and Lee Elia (former Phils coach) as manager of the Cubs got the Phils to throw in Sandberg.