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...players did not go for the pitch. If baseball was such an invalid, they asked, how come attendance was up 50% since the mid-'70s, some franchises were selling for as much as $50 million and owners of supposedly weak clubs could still dangle million-dollar contracts before .250 hitters? Last April, prodded by Commissioner Ueberroth, the teams agreed to open their books to the players. An accountant hired by the owners promptly scaled back the losses originally claimed by the clubs from $43 million last year to $27 million. The players' accountants, meanwhile, insisted that the owners actually made...
Seaver's lasting memory of their term as Reds teammates in the late '70s is of a doubleheader: "Pete had a terrible day, a miserable day, at third base. Leaving the park late after the second game, I heard the cracking of a bat and went back out on the field to see Russ Nixon [a coach then] hitting grounders to him at third. I watched from the shadows for a while. That's Pete to me." Knowing Rose's determination, some opponents marshal their best skills especially for him, and they are his favorites. "Do you know what [Houston...
Styles and settings barely begin the contrasts between Roger Staubach and Joe Namath, new Hall of Fame quarterbacks from the Naval Academy and Alabama, Dallas and New York City. During the late '60s and early '70s, they were on the opposite ends of every spectrum. In a Fu Manchu mustache, Namath played Elvis Presley to Staubach's Pat Boone. But they came to be stuffed and mounted together and cried along with Simpson during the inductions at Canton, Ohio. As Namath searched the sky for a hangdog man in a houndstooth hat, the late Alabama coach Bear Bryant, he also...
Such purity of conduct is hard to maintain in a permissive era. In the mid-'70s, West Point was rocked by a cheating scandal; 152 cadets were dismissed or re signed after plagiarizing on a take-home exam. Whole companies of cadets had gone "cool on honor," an internal investigation found, in part because the honor code had become "trivialized," used as a tool to enforce petty regulations...
...Australia from Lebanon 40 years ago, imports homewares from China, supplying the Mum-and-Dad discount stores some people call "$2 stores" or "junk shops." On a Monday morning in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney, his warehouses are abuzz as workers unload newly arrived shipping containers Since the early '70s, Salha has been buying goods in Asia, watching the focus shift from Hong Kong to Japan to Korea to Taiwan and now to mainland China. When he first went to Guangzhou in 1974, it took him four hours to see all the merchandise at a trade show. "Now it takes...