A SPECIAL REPORT: THE ANGELS

By Helene Elliott and Steve Emmons

July 15, 1991 12 AM PT

OUTLOOK: The second-half schedule is a mixed bag. . . . The Angels led the league in road victories (23) during the first half and have 40 road games left. Perhaps the most crucial trip will be an 11-game swing to Minnesota, Seattle and Oakland in August, because the Angels were 9-10 in their first meetings with those division rivals. . . . “Everybody knows what’s at stake in the second half,” slugger Dave Parker says. “We’ve done a good job maintaining striking distance. Now it’s going to be a sprint.”

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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.

A SPECIAL REPORT: THE ANGELS

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