Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other sports news, All-Star third baseman Sal Bando became the fifth Oakland A's free agent to fly Charlie Finley's coop. Bando, a superior fielder who also averaged 88 runs batted in during his nine years with the Athletics, signed with the impotent Milwaukee Brewers, who tabbed him as their first choice in the free agent draft...
...sorry preamble to a sad evening, the publicity agent makes a little speech before each performance, asking audience to "tell all your friends about us." The woman is truly pathetic but as these are the last honest words to be spoken to the theatre, my advice is this: go hear some high quality grovelling and then split quick before you get trapped into seeing the abomination that follows...
Although, after nearly two decades of CIA work, Odell still retains the meticulous memory and powers of observation that his former occupation demanded, he does not fill the stereotype of the cold, calculating secret agent. One of his favorite words is "compassionate." He is heavily involved with charitable organizations, spending much of his time and energy on causes like the Jimmy Fund. Yet his personality is still intense. He exudes the presence of a man who is in complete control of his surroundings...
...fizz starts to whiz. Since the plane travels at 1,350 m.p.h., about 600 m.p.h. faster than the world turns below the flight, midnight will come again over the Atlantic with the passengers, as the New York packaging agent puts it delicately, "eleven miles high." Fortified with three more courses of dinner, the revelers will land in Washington (e.t.a.: 9:50 p.m.) and toddle over to the French embassy for the last three courses and a final salute to 1977. "It will be a first in the history of the world," say the promoters, "ranking with Lindbergh or Earhart...
...problem with talking about the free-agent draft is that in your heart, you know the players are right. Baseball is a business and you've got to let a talented ballplayer get what he's worth from whomever will give...