Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Big baseball is at the plate waiting for the next pitch in the Danny Gardella case. Gardella, an ex-New York Giant, jumped from the National to the Mexican League in 1946. When he decided to come back to the U.S. two years alter, the American baseball world did not receive him at all kindly; in fact, he couldn't even get a job in the semi-pro loops...
Exempted from the antitrust law by a 1922 ruling that it was not engaged in interstate commerce, big baseball has wasted little worry--until now--on the reserve clause. As Chandler put it, the members of the $5000 to $100,000 income brackets can hardly be called peons. In recent years, however, the national sport has received more and more of its income from radio and television. As such, it has now come within the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce laws. And the minor league wages still remain low; Chandler's statement obviously did not include minor leaguers whose paychecks...
...little injustice in salaries; everywhere except in St. Louis and Brooklyn, public acclaim keeps the paychecks high. The clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty years has shown the reserve clause to be the chief stabilizer in the big league player market. Although exceptions are needed in cases like that of Gardella, the reserve clause cannot be thrown out of baseball...
Highest praise must go to the principals. The generally high quality of both singing and acting fully compensates for the absence of big names. Brian Sullivan sings the tenor role of Grimes with understanding realism, and Ellen Orford, the widow schoolmistress, is touchingly played by Polyna Stoska...
...championships will be decided next week--the Bermuda Trophy, which goes either to a Bermuda team or an American college team, and the Big Three crown. Harvard meets the Bermuda Athletic Association on Tuesday and Yale on Thursday. The winner of this game plays Princeton, defending Big Three champs, a week from Saturday. A contest between the Bermuda All Stars and the Big Three All Stars a week from Sunday closes the program, and the team will fly home that night...