Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among the most exciting ever played, the Sox defeated the Reds when catcher Carlton Fisk hit a twelfth inning home run just inside the left field foul pole. The Reds won the series the next day in less dramatic fashion, and just a few weeks later the free agent was born, changing baseball forever...
...their suit, McNally and Messersmith insured that any player not satisfied with the salary his team was willing to pay him could exercise his option to play out the season and then offer himself to other teams on the open market. Gammons believes that the arrival of the free agent was apocalyptic both for the league's salary structure and for the tenor of the game. As average player salaries rose from nearly $45,000 in 1975 to close to $300,000 in 1983, baseball creeds such as selflessness and team harmony were abandoned on the way to the bank...
...stars like Fred Lynn, Fisk, Rick Burleson and Cecil Cooper--which struggled to avoid last place. Gammons then traces the years between these two poles discussing in minute detail the course of each season, from both an athletic and business perspective. The argument is an important one; the free agent system has changed the sport from an owner- to a player-dominated enterprise. When a player doesn't feel a team is paying him as much as it should, he leaves, thus destroying the regional flavor of the sport. Gammons believes that the identification that each major league city once...
Equipped with respirators, black balloons, and carrying placards reading "Nerve Gas Get Out of Cambridge," protestors distributed leaflets and asked shareholders to reconsider the company's nerve agent research...
Although no specific charges have been filed against him so far, Caro Quintero is believed to have masterminded the murders of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and a Mexican pilot who frequently flew for the agency; their badly beaten bodies were found in central Mexico last month. That incident severely strained U.S.-Mexican relations as U.S. officials accused Mexican authorities of helping Caro Quintero flee the country. At week's end El Chapo was flown to Mexico, where the U.S. hoped he would be prosecuted...