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What are the chances of anyone's demanding, and receiving, a 530% raise these days? Not too good-especially when there are Government wage guidelines and a boss like Oakland A's Owner Charles Finley to contend with. Not too good-unless your name is Vida Blue, who last week mounted one of the more imaginative counterattacks in the history of baseball salary disputes. After months of futile negotiations with Finley and a brief disappearance, the 22-year-old pitching star emerged in Oakland to tell a disbelieving news conference that he was retiring to sell bathroom...
...Finley has good reason to hope that the announcement was only a ploy. In his first full season, Blue last year fashioned a stunning 24-8 record, posted 301 strikeouts and won both the Cy Young Award as the outstanding pitcher in the American League and the league's Most Valuable Player Award. He provided Finley with an extraordinary return on his salary of $14,750, and set turnstiles spinning round the league. Well aware of his impact, Blue and his attorney agent, Robert Gerst, asked for $92,500 this year. Finley refused to go above...
...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...
...classes and sleep through lectures to realize that professors aren't just sentenced to their teaching. Many do things on the outside, Marty Peretz has followed a successful career sinking money into losing presidential campaigns. A whole array of professors have proved themselves as "advisors" in Washington and John Finley has the A.D. Club. But little did I expect that Assistant Professor Donald D. Bacon, whose sinisterly analytical lectures scared me away from his American Drama: Studies in the Dramatic Imagination last fall, should direct an entertaining play at a time and in a place where entertainment is such...
Magdalena Finley, wife of John H. Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and former Master of Eliot House, said yesterday that "while some of the maples along Memorial Drive are sort of sad, it is a shame that they have to cut down some of the healthier looking ones by Winthrop House...