Carlisle released six first-team players last week - Danny Carlton, Chris Lumsdon, Luke Joyce, Chris Howarth, Lewis Neal and Jeff Smith.

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Recently, proprietor Jeff Smith and I sat in the back of City Bakery in New York, sampling the wine out of paper cups.

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Several holdovers from last year remain on the 37-player ballot, with top candidates including Jack Morris (67 percent), Jeff Bagwell (56 percent), Lee Smith (51 percent) and Tim Raines (49 percent).

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The only other players to receive more than 50% of the vote were former Houston Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell (56%) and reliever Lee Smith (50.6%), who pitched for eight teams between 1980 and 1997.

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Mel Smith directed the script by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, and Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn.

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Smith has also studied former quarterbacks such as Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jeff Garcia and Donovan McNabb, trying to get an even better handle on Mornhinweg's West Coast offense.

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