Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...level the playing field between large- and small-market teams. Reinsdorf rails against the spiraling cost of players' salaries and then puts his money where his mouth was not. "Any owner who breaks the market like this with the industry in trouble, it makes you scratch your head," said Cleveland Indians general manager John Hart, who stopped bidding for his former star at $8 million a year. "That is going to be for Jerry to live with...
...Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who just days after railing about the need to cap spending signed Albert Belle to a five-year, $52.5 million contract that made the slugger the highest paid player in baseball. Reinsdorf again voted no on the proposal and was joined by Cleveland, Kansas City and Oakland. Fourteen teams switched votes. "Actually, it's good for the White Sox because it dooms the small-market teams," Reinsdorf said. "There will be less for us to compete against." In fact, the deal does little to prevent the richer teams from continuing to outbid poorer, smaller...
...career. In 1974, a young Bill Clinton fresh out of law school campaigned for Congress. He recalled "the words of a friend of mine who works on the Scott County road crew, "the people want a hand up, not a hand out." Twenty-two years later, Clinton spoke in Cleveland on the last day of his last campaign. He called on Americans to "work together to give everyone the tools they need, the chance--not a guarantee, but a chance--to make the most of our own lives and build that bridge to the 21st century together...
...course into the next century. The trouble was past, and even the bitterest fans could look forward to next season without trepidation. Apparently, no one told the owners. Owners of the Chicago White Sox and Cubs, Florida, Kansas City and Montreal are known to oppose the agreement, with Boston, Cleveland, Houston, Minnesota and Seattle seen as leaning against the deal. Eight votes against will doom the deal. And that means more of the status quo: no revenue sharing and no luxury tax, both measures aimed at restraining salaries and closing the gap between richer and poorer teams. And for next...
BORN: Oct. 8, 1946, Cleveland EDUCATION: Case Western Reserve U, B.A., M.A, 1973 FAMILY: One child RELIGION: Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Communications POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for U.S. House, 1972, 1974; Mayor of Cleveland 1977-79; Ohio Senate, 1994- ADDRESS: Westown Square, 10674 Lorain, Cleveland...