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Money flowed like ballpark beer, and college stars gleefully acted as their own auctioneers. The Detroit Lions lost Southern Cal Quarterback Pete Beathard, their No. 1 draft choice, to the A.F.L.'s Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs gave Beathard a $15,000 bonus for signing, a $20,000 contract, stock in a pay-TV company, a new car and a rent-free apartment...
Then the defense called five Negroes who testified to Charlie's conduct at the ballpark on Ichauway Plantation. All agreed that Charlie Ware was not drunk. They said he had grabbed Coke Malone's arm to keep him from entering the spat between his mother and Bud Walker. The witnesses further agreed that Charlie left when Touchstone's man told the people to leave, and that Charlie did not curse at Touchstone...
What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. In Houston, there are the helicopter-sized mosquitoes that infest the ballpark. Washington's Joseph Burke picks on TV: "If the team is losing, people naturally stay home and watch the tube." Judge Robert Cannon, counsel for the Major League Players' Association, says it's all the fault of the baseball fan's economy. "Unemployment is high and money is scarce," says Cannon. "The guy with the big family can't afford to take his kids to the ball game as often as he once...
...trial. I have been subjected to these matters for a period of five years now, and the one thing that Mr. Hoffa is interested in is to obtain a mistrial . . . If we take any steps now that will lead in that direction, we will play right in his ballpark...
...York Yankees, which he bought with Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2,800,000 in 1945 (he and Topping bought out MacPhail's interest for $2,000,000 in 1947), serve him well as a developer of new business via free passes, casual meetings in the ballpark, and just plain publicity. The golf course is another fertile source of new contracts and big deals; Webb belongs to no less than 14 golf clubs around the country, shoots in the high...