Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grew up hungering for more action and fame than his home town of Robinson, Ill., could possibly offer. So right out of high school, in 1939, a feisty welterweight by then, he signed up with the regular Army. As promised, adventure and travel were his -Honolulu, Schofield Barracks, amateur boxing, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. But advancement seemed beyond James Jones -twice he made noncom and got busted back to private. After five boisterous years and a war, he returned to civilian life. But he packed the Army with him and marched its brawling, grumbling, whoring characters through...
...granted to the team with which an athlete first signs, the exclusive perpetual rights to that player's services for his playing lifetime through the mechanism of automatic contract renewal. If the player was traded or sold, these rights were transferred with the contract. From the moment an amateur baseball player signed a contract, he relinquished all rights to control his location of employ and agreed to negotiate only with his assigned club. This was the framework for baseball's reserve system, which remained in effect until December...
...ludicrous. But, how can one honestly say that a ballplayer is really worth that much money. Such salaries cause the baseball fan to either shake his head in disgust or rummage through his closet for the old Little League equipment and get in condition for next year's amateur draft...
...regional tournament, to be held at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., will include the four college teams chosen at the College Tournament, a travelling squad from Australia and seven other amateur clubs from the New England area...
...Polaroid's, Chairman Walter Fallon indicated to a generally critical audience that the company is not trying to develop an instant-movie system. Instead, it is concentrating on other goals, including trying to eliminate the flashbulb in still photography by making a whole new series of amateur cameras to use high-speed film. In March Kodak introduced a fast color film with an ASA rating of 400, but so far it can be used only in complex cameras, not most of Kodak's Instamatics...