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NO HALO: The Angels, who were trying...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Leslie Berkman

NO HALO: The Angels, who were trying to obtain Bobby Bonilla, were spurned Monday when the prized free agent agreed to play for his hometown New York Mets (C1). . . . Following frantic last-minute bidding, Bonilla became baseball’s highest-paid player by signing a five-year contract with the Mets for an estimated $29 million. The Angels wanted Bonilla to play right field and hit cleanup but will now set their sights on Kansas City’s Danny Tartabull.

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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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