Word: finley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First he demanded $115,000. Then $92,500. Then $70,000. Then, Pitcher Vida Blue announced that he was retiring from baseball at the age of 22 to sell bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Nobody believed him, least of all Oakland A's Owner Charles O. Finley, who paid Blue a cut-rate $14,750 last year. Finally, after four months of haggling, Blue signed for $50,000 plus $8,000 for his college education and a $5,000 bonus for winning 24 games last season. "I'll be lucky if I win ten games this season," said Vida...
Graduate school proved to be a strain upon a flagging family budget, so Segal taught, first as a sectionman in Humanities 7 and then in John Finley's Hum 2. "I really found myself, I think, in '59, despite the fact that it was a personal crisis in my own life that made me turn to teaching...
...hear from the players nowadays is gimme, gimme, gimme and threat, threat, threat. I'm getting sick and tired of it," complained Oakland Athletics Owner Charles Finley, who has been devoting much of his energy lately to a contract hassle with Pitcher Vida Blue. Other owners reflected the same hard line. Declared Beer Baron Gussie Busch, owner of the St. Louis...
...take a job as a vice president with Dura Steel Products of suburban Los Angeles, Blue found it hard to keep a straight face. "Come on, guys," he pleaded at one point, "I'm supposed to be serious." He then listed the counterproposals he had made to Finley during the bargaining: he had offered to play for $50,000 with a retroactive bonus agreement; or on a long-range contract basis with assured increase; or if Finley would allow him to become a free agent at the end of the season. His most bizarre proposal called for the Atlantic...
...this is baseball theater at its most entertaining, but it still is likely that Finley and Blue will reach some sort of agreement. The next question is: Will there be a baseball season for Vida to pitch in? By week's end, 13 major league teams had voted, most of them unanimously, to approve some form of strike before the season begins -if the owners do not kick in at least an additional $10 million for the players' pension and medical-care funds...