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Baseball 1977 opens the era of free agents, and an analysis of the season ahead tells how the new rich figure to help—or hinder—their new clubs. But the game is not populated solely by fat cats, as Robert Grossman shows in a pictorial report on the superflakes and Ron Fimrite tells in his profile of Mark Fidrych. Finally, Mark Kram helps slugger Hack Wilson ask, "Why Ain't I in the Hall?"