Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinating thing about Charles O. Finley, 49, is the way he brings out the worst in other people. In the seven years that Millionaire Finley has owned the Kansas City Athletics, he has managed-accidentally or deliberately-to raise more dust than a prairie twister. Managers have violently disagreed with him, players have rebelled, fans have hanged him in effigy. Those incidents were nothing compared with the howler that hit last week when Finley's fellow American League owners voted to 1) allow him to move the Athletics to Oakland, Calif., next season, and 2) expand the league from...
...floor of the U.S. Senate, Mis souri's Stuart Symington called Finley "one of the most disreputable characters ever to enter the American sports scene." In Cincinnati, National League President Warren Giles deplored the American League's hasty, unilateral decision to expand. Giles was right, but his moral position was a little weak: the National League, after all, did not bother to consult American League owners before moving into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta. That still did not make the motives of Finley & friends any nobler or any less obvious. Moving...
...Master Finley of Eliot House roamed among the protestors urging members of his House to leave the demonstration because, he said, there was a real danger of their all being fired. "I don't like to see friends of mine lead with their chins," Finley said...
Monro, Master John Finley, and at least one other University official met with Colonel Pell and advised him that he was acting wrongly; he ignored the advice and held fast to his own judgment...
...three cases my judgment differed from Pell's, and both John F. Finley and I tried to change his judgment; in the end, however, there was nothing more we could do, and Pell's decision was final," Monro said...