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Free Swinger. A house painter's son from Payette, Idaho, Killebrew signed for $30,000 in 1954, was the first bonus baby in his club's history (the Twins were then the Washington Senators). For five years a combination of unsteady fielding and a zest for bad pitches ("I'm a free swinger") kept him on the bench or in the minors for all but 113 major league games, where a .224 batting average did little to encourage a promotion. But in 1959 the Senators posted a vacancy notice at third base, and Killebrew somehow beat...
...surgeon like his old man. But there are easier ways to make a lot of money. Just by signing his name to a contract with the Los Angeles Angels last week, Fred ("Rick") Reichardt of Stevens Point, Wis., picked up a cool $175,000 -which may be the biggest bonus ever paid to a baseball rookie...
...miners off the job. By the morning after the election, most of the country's tin production had shut down. Paz coolly shrugged it off. "The strike," he said, "will last only three or four days because the miners don't want to lose their production bonus." Sure enough, three days later, the miners were back...
Many chains are decentralizing to give more authority to their store managers, are paying them as much as $22,400 in annual salary-plus-bonus. Managers cultivate local trade with a host of gimmicks: some have opened soda fountains in their stores, and the Colonial chain offers chairs and tables for weary shoppers to rest beside the soft-drink dispensers. Stores are also staying open longer. Kroger two weeks ago started doing business on Sundays in Ohio, and Grand Union in Norfolk stays open 24 hours daily to accommodate the round-the-clock shipyard shifts...
...last thing the big left-hander plans to do now is quit baseball. He will reportedly sign a contract worth at least $50,000 in bonus cash with either the Yankees or the Braves at his home in Winchester tomorrow...