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Dapper's path is easy to follow. As a ten-year campaign stalwart for former Governor Endicott "Chub" Peabody, O'Neil was rewarded in the mid-'60's with a position on the three-member Boston Liquor Licensing Commission. Later, he became its chairman. During his tenure on the commission, O'Neil got into a feud with a newspaper editor whose paper had slandered Dapper on several occasions. The editor was allegedly having an affair with a Chinese woman, and the politician drove around the paper's building shouting through a megaphone "...likes Chinese food, he eats Chinese every chance...
...wins fewer than 18, he agrees to take a 10% cut next year-unless injuries or lack of support from teammates keeps him from winning that many. Exactly how this squares with Major League Rule 3A is yet to be decided by National League President Charles S. ("Chub") Feeney. Seaver could get a high, hard one thrown past him. The rule reads in part: "No contract... shall provide for the giving of a bonus for playing, pitching or batting skill...
...this present disorder has been worked through, the owners proposed that all future contracts have a "seven and one" clause that would allow seven-year veterans to demand they be traded or permitted to enter the free-agent pool following the option year. "The nice thing about this," joked Chub Feeney, MacPhail's opposite in the National League, "is that Lee and I are the only ones who understand it." Next day Marvin Miller said he understood it and did not much like it, particularly the interim offer dealing with current contracts. The eight-team limit on bidding still...
...wouldn't visit Dillon today, as he had on a visit earlier this year. He felt sort of embarrassed about the whole thing now. McInally had graduated amid much hoopla-- he was the first Harvard All-American since Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42 and the owner of a three-year contract with the Bengals-- but in the past four months he hasn't done much except nurse a broken leg, collect coins in his Cincinnati house, read Henry Miller, and draw his full salary (which he won't disclose.) He has yet to wear his Bengals jersey, a jarring detail...
McInally joins Harvard football greats Endicott "Chub" Peobody '42, Chet Boulris '60, and Leo as Lowe award winners...