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...result of Finley's wheeling and dealing is the best team in baseball. Today's A's have speed, brilliant defense, clutch hitting, good starting pitching and an excellent bullpen. Last week the team held a 6½ game lead in the American League West. The players are the first to praise Finley's work. "He's a hell of a general manager," says Tenace. Adds Jackson: "Charlie will do anything to make his team better." That said, they still hate Finley with a passion. Mention his name in the clubhouse, and the quick response is a vehement "Screw that bastard...
Finley, whose $1.4 million player payroll is among baseball's highest, could not care less. "Sure, Bando had some clutch hits," he says. "Don't I deserve something for $100,000? As for Holtzman ?hell, he won 21 games in 1973. What am I supposed to do, give him a raise for having a worse year? These guys are just bad losers...
...Kissinger went down into the dressing rooms, munched some salami and recalled that when he was growing up in New York City his team had been the Yankees. "Joe DiMaggio was my favorite player," he said, "and I always admired Tommy Henrich, the way he hit in the clutch...
...most of the coverage. The winner of the Ripped Off-of-the Year award this season is Coell Cooper, who has the terrible misfortune of bring a first baseman. Coop (he needs a nickname badly-partly because he's always coming up to pich, hit in the clutch) has been designated hitter lately, and has done so brilliantly at the plate that they've been playing him more and more. He's leading the team in batting although he has too few at-bats for the league standings...
...Newspapers rejected their advertising, the Chicago Transit Authority refused to display their posters, and a clutch of American Nazi Party members showed up to picket. Nonetheless, some 750 delegates of the American Communist Party managed to get together at Chicago's swank Ambassador Hotel for their first convention in three years. "Some people have said that we should love this country or leave it," intoned California Delegate Angela Davis, "[but] we are going to fight like hell to get this country back." Fighter Davis was bothered, though, by the fact that the party had chosen such an unproletarian meeting...