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...that sadly depressing trade proved to be the biggest break of Bauer's career. After a so-so 1960 season (.275 average, three homers), the aging outfielder was summoned to a meeting with Kansas City Owner Charles O. Finley and General Manager Frank Lane. "How would you like to manage one of our minor-league farm clubs?" asked Lane. Replied Bauer: "I'd like a shot at managing, but I don't think I'm interested in going back to the minors." Announced Finley: "Well, then, you're the new manager of the Kansas City...
Bauer, naturally, did not get along with Finley. Nobody does. A cigar-chewing Chicago insurance man who made $10 million at his trade, Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game. He battles constantly with sportswriters, rival owners, league officials. And he discards managers the way women throw away hats...
...Bauer's Athletics won 72 games-their second-best showing ever. Finley still insisted that Bauer play certain men, bench others, ordered him to tell Manny Jimenez, the club's rookie sensation (.301, eleven homers in 1962), to stop slicing singles and start swinging for the fences. Bauer ground his teeth-and followed orders. Last Jimenez' average plummeted 20 points, and he did not hit a single home run. Bauer, gratefully, had long since left. There were still two days to go in the 1962 season when he announced that he was quitting: "When a man loses...
...Columbia Broadcasting System. "I think it's lousy," said Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn, who objected to the hurry-up way the league had polled its owners for permission. "This is a hell of a way to run the American League," roared Kansas City Owner Charles Finley, who objects to everything. But the league's eight other owners said O.K., and in the space of a few hours, one of the most sensational sales in sports history was consummated...
...services, and Reichardt played them off against each other with clinical calm. The bidding, he announced, would start at $100,000. This was too much of "a business and financial risk" for the home-state Milwaukee Braves. But the other teams barely blinked. Kansas City Owner Charles Finley made two trips to Stevens Point in a week. The Angels flew Rick to Palm Springs in Owner Gene Autry's private plane, gave him a tour of Hollywood, brunch in Bel Air, and dinner in Studio City. The New York Mets offered him everything but the seats in Shea Stadium...