Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...club. Thereupon the player becomes what none of the former greats of the game could ever hope to be-a talent who can sell himself to any owner willing to meet his price. (The celebrated Catfish Hunter case of 1974 was different. Hunter was declared a free agent by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn because Oakland, in declining to pay part of Hunter's salary to a company he had designated, failed to live up to its contract with him. He signed a $3.5 million contract with the Yankees...
...came to negotiating, what I wanted was someone to go in there and knock heads," says Messersmith. "If an athlete who has been pampered ever since he was a kid is inserted into a heavy business situation, he gets chewed up." Like many other stars, Messersmith negotiates through an agent, Herb Osmond, who enables his client to confine his pitching to the field...
...strength of getting Jackson, bookmakers made Baltimore the 5-2 favorite to win the American League's Eastern Division. In their first five games the punchless Orioles scored only nine runs. Meanwhile, Slugger Jackson was in retreat in Tempe, Ariz., reviewing his life's options with his agent-partner, Garry Walker, and a psychologist, Ron Barnes. Walker hinted at one point that Jackson would not sign until vacationing Oriole Owner Jerry Hoffberger returned from Israel. Oriole General Manager Hank Peters, Jackson seemed to feel, lacked a sophisticated enough grasp of extra-baseball business matters to work...
...doctors rebuilt her, piece by voluptuous piece, with 80-m.p.h. legs, a right arm that can shatter trees and an ear capable of hearing leaves rustle in the next county. Between classes at a military base in Ojai, Calif., where she is a schoolteacher, she moonlights as an intelligence agent...
...been the deal she wrung out of Universal, the show's producer. Her contract gives her $500,000 a year for five years, a guarantee of one film role annually and 12½% of the take from sales of Bionic dolls, T shirts and other spinoffs, which her agent insists could total as much as $2 million. Only last fall, Wagner, 26, was having trouble at Universal, which decided not to renew a $50,000-a-year contract she then had with the studio. Although she was considered "promising," her credits included only a few mixed-review films...