WASHINGTON — Bud Black can’t remember the conversation exactly, but he was definitely in a room at the Ramada Inn next to a Phoenix dog track in 1982 when Seattle Mariners general manager Dan O’Brien called him in a hurry. Black, he was told, was the “player to be named later.” “It was thirty ……

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