Jack Clark, the injury-prone slugger picked up...
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Jack Clark, the injury-prone slugger picked up from the St. Louis Cardinals in the off-season, will be lost to the New York Yankees for the next three weeks. He tore a tendon in his left calf running to first base after a home run in an exhibition game against the Baltimore Orioles at Miami.
“It happened going down the line,” Clark said. “I ran three or four steps real hard because I thought it might hit the wall, and I felt something.”
The Yankees said that Clark would be ready to play again in three weeks. Clark left Miami Stadium on crutches and appeared to be wearing a plastic cast on his left leg.
Clark, who signed a two-year, $3-million contract with the Yankees after playing out his option with St. Louis, is also recovering from a torn ligament in his right ankle, suffered last September, and has been sidelined various times with an assortment of injuries while with the San Francisco Giants and the Cardinals.
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