Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While we talked, a quarterback named Jeb Blount was brought in to meet Wilkinson. A free agent, Blount was being given a tryout (which he flunked) to become Steve Pisarkiewicz's backup. The 24-year-old Blount was obviously impressed by meeting Wilkinson. When Blount left, Bud recalled that he had once coached Oklahoma against a Texas team that had Peppy Blount, Jeb's father, on its roster. That was 31 years ago, and Wilkinson laughed at the coincidence, and the passage of time, and the bonds of the game that had drawn him back to football...
...heart of a lady fair? Be her bodyguard, or so two famous young ladies would attest. Susan Ford, 21, freelance photographer and only daughter of former President Gerald and Betty Ford, plans to marry Charles Frederick Vance, 37, a Secret Service agent and divorcee who met his future bride in June 1977 when assigned to a year's duty as a guard for the Ford family. Patty Hearst, 24, still in jail for bank robbery, is planning to marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a San Francisco cop who was one of her bodyguards when she was free on bail last...
...Meanwhile he lives the dream of every kid that ever broke his glove in by sticking it under his mattress, or scraped his knee sliding at a Little League tryout. He's in the majors, and he's grateful. And if he shows his gratitude by not having an agent squabble over contract negotiations, by not being mercenary to television and endorsements, by pitching his heart out whenever he gets the chance...
...then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home-grown players on their squad. The Yankees can field the most devastating starting nine in baseball but have few reserves to call upon when trouble strikes...
...Yankees had bought some speed of their own during the winter: Reliever Rich Gossage, acquired as a free agent for a reported $2.75 million over 6 years. He finished his first season in pinstripes by saving 27 games and compiling an earned run average of 2.01, impressive figures attained by totally unsubtle yet highly effective means: throwing a baseball at better than 95 m.p.h. Facing the Dodgers, Gossage retired six hitters of his own. The Yankees finally got their bats around on Welch in the tenth inning, winning 4-3 on Lou Piniella's opposite-field single. With...