Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart of the matter seemed to be a bit of contract fine print that club owners like to call the cornerstone of big-time baseball: the so-called "reserve clause" that binds a player to his club for his baseball life-or until the club chooses to trade, sell or sack him. Purpose: to prevent a few rich clubs from hiring all the talent-as they well might if each ballplayer were always free to sell his services in the highest market. Cornerstone or not, two out of three judges decided that the reserve clause looked like peonage. They ordered...
...Supreme Court had ruled that baseball was not engaged in interstate commerce, and therefore was out of the reach of antitrust laws. But now baseball was raking in big money from radio and television. Did that make the game interstate commerce? The appeals court wanted the lower court to settle that...
Twenty-six-year-old Willie Pep, decided the judges, had won his return engagement, become the first featherweight in history to win back his crown undisputedly after losing it. Hartford folks who bet their shirts on him won a small fortune from the big-city slickers. Mumbled battered Willie, who had been worried lest somebody might have thought he gave up too quickly last October: "I had to prove the last one was no phony...
...that specific modern product, the salesman who believes that the approach, the personal angle is everything, that the line of talk is far more important than the line of merchandise. The play shows, too, how in terms of self-respect a man's need to be a big shot turns him, with profound self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred...
...next two days, Farnsworth led the big board in the number of shares traded, and dropped to 1⅞. At week's end, Farnsworth stockholders had still to approve the deal. But those who had known about it could have-and may well have-cleaned up by selling Farnsworth short. The SEC was "looking into the matter...