Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Class of '55 will arrive in Cambridge beginning Monday, September 17, but much of their thoughts will constantly turn homeward as they wonder what their local draft board is going to do with them. Many men are expected to sign up with one of the three ROT programs...
Scooped. In Clinton, Mass., Reporter William Coulter, on a routine assignment at the local draft board, asked if there was any news, got orders to report for his pre-induction physical...
...spike-scarred from years of futile feuding with the major leagues, took the most drastic step since its founding in 1904. At a meeting in San Francisco last week, the League's club owners voted to serve an ultimatum on the majors: unless freed from the player draft, P.C.L. would go outlaw, i.e., declare itself an independent organization with status equal to the National and American Leagues...
...Pacific Coast cities are permanently condemned to second-grade baseball, played mainly by greenhorns and has-beens, while the big league teams in the East drain off such stars as Joe and Dom DiMaggio, Larry Jansen, Gene Woodling and Ferris Fain as fast as they come up. The draft has a double effect: a club lucky enough to develop two or three standout players in a season must usually sell them all to the highest bidders rather than risk losing one of them for the $10,000 price...
...Francisco Seals, hard hit in recent years, are buried in eighth place this season, and Owner Paul Fagan, a bitter enemy of the draft, announced a fortnight ago that he was through, and ready to sell out. Fagan was in Honolulu last week, and in no mood to reconsider, when the owners took their action. Said he: "All the League actually did was to warn the majors. I think it was an idle threat. The majors will force them into some kind of compromise at the December meetings, and we'll be back about where we were." But other...