Word: finley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not play again for the Crimson. Since June 5, Stenhouse has had a strange odyssey through the world of professional baseball. His guide on that journey: Charles O. Finley, owner of the Oakland...
...reason the A's never contacted him is probably because they have no full-time scouts and their orgainization is the laughing stock of professional baseball. Finley has sold every player from the great championship teams of 1972, 1973, and 1974, and is trying hard to sell the whole team. In the meantime, he runs them like a pretzel stand. And pays commensurate salaries...
...wasn't an offer. It was an ultimatum--take it or leave it. We said we weren't going to take it." About four days passed after the first offer before Finley himself called Dave Stenhouse with a new deal...
...money was basically the same, but Finley said he would include in the contract a guarantee that Mike would play for the A's during the month of September, when major league rosters are expanded from 24 to 40 players...
...That put a little different picture on things," Mike recalls. "For a kid in school that's awful inviting. I called Finley collect--he even accepted the charges--and I said I'd probably take...