Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called for the owners to pad the players' pension fund with $5,450,000 for the next three years. The owners had been holding out for $5,300,000, the players for $5,900,000. So who won? Most fans, noting the embarrassment that the boycott of spring training caused both players and management, agreed with Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn: "As I see it, it was a loss for all parties concerned...
...time when the sport badly needs to spruce up its image, the major-league teams seem incapable of even drumming up a lively game of toss. Last week, for the first time in the 93-year history of the major leagues, spring training opened to a mass boycott by the players...
...ballplayers are relative newcomers to this sort of labor dispute. While the association leaders argued, its members were hardly demonstrating true trade-union solidarity. Last week, torn between duty to teammates and job security, a few began to bolt. Catcher Jerry Grote, for instance, said that he backed the boycott but, since he had signed his contract with the New York Mets "some time ago," he felt it only proper that he should report to training camp. "If it had been any one of the 23 other teams," he quickly added, "I wouldn't have signed. But this team...
...Richert of the Baltimore Orioles. "You got to keep busy when you have four kids," said Chicago White Sox Catcher Russ Nixon. Though Ken Harrelson, the Boston Red Sox outfielder who led the American League in runs batted in last season, was the only name player to break the boycott so far, several others allowed that they would not hold out long...
...system. Within that Ayub-inspired framework, the President is chosen by 120,000 popularly elected "basic democrats." The opposition charges that the system is susceptible to government patronage and pressure and thus tends to perpetuate Ayub's rule. If it is not abolished, the eight parties plan to boycott basic democrat elections scheduled for late this year...