Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baltimore 6, Cleveland...
Another player who has ties to the Ivy League even though he went to Notre Dame was a late cut of the Cleveland Browns. Joseph Restic Jr., punter and defensive back, headeo back to dental school at Penn...
Advertisers, not readers, have placed this unhealthy emphasis on dominance. Morton is convinced that the Washington Star and the Chicago Daily News need not have folded, and the Philadelphia Bulletin and Cleveland Press would not be in such difficulty if their share of the city's advertising was as large as their share of the city's circulation...
William Presser was then facing indictment on a charge of embezzlement, and Fitzsimmons would later be implicated by FBI wiretaps in a scheme by Los Angeles mobsters to gain access to union funds. Fitzsimmons and the Pressers, according to the reports, met regularly with the agents in Washington, Miami, Cleveland and Las Vegas. They hoped to arrange "targets of exchange"-people that the Government could prosecute instead of themselves or their cronies. These turned out to be Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just...
Even welcome-back-baseball gimmicks didn't help. In Cleveland, 72,086 attended the All-Star game the night before the season resumed; on the first day of regular play, 4,773 showed up. Padres Owner Ray Kroc made admission free on reopening day, and 52,608 San Diegans thronged to the stadium. The next day, only 5,360 were willing to pay to watch the Padres play. The season had become a bit of a farce and the fans knew it. When the Atlanta Braves began a home stand in an unaccustomed position -first place-only...