Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When General Manager Al Campanis was fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers for saying that blacks lack the "necessities" to manage a big league team, Ueberroth brought you into major league baseball. Why, then, have you hired Al Campanis to assist...
...Al Campanis has 40 years of experience in baseball. To sit down with him and talk about the inside functioning of a baseball organization and how to deal with owners and general managers has been enormously helpful. The problem is in baseball. The problem isn't Campanis. Al Campanis is merely an all-but- irrelevant symptom of the problem. To allow him to be turning out there in the wind makes him a scapegoat and ultimately impedes any progress in dealing with the issues in a constructive...
...Since you became a special assistant to the commissioner of baseball almost two years ago, major league teams have hired 21 managers or general managers. Only one, Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles, is black. Has all the soul- searching following Al Campanis' remarks led merely to more empty rhetoric...
...from Slavery that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process of shucking off so-called slave names, commonly in favor of names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...
Sophomore Paul Watson took both of the backstroke races last year, Ken Johnson should be a factor in the 1650 freestyle and the breaststroke crew of Jon Manson, Al Wolf and Joe Zumpano could score in those events. Freshmen to watch are Sumner Anderson, Chris Kovacs, Tom Peterson and Kevin Williams...