Word: garveyism
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...York has more professional sports than boroughs. Boston has Larry Bird. Carl Yastrzemski and the Marathon. Los Angeles has Magic Johnson and Steve Garvey; Alabama has The Tide, and Indianapolis has The Race. Each year on the Sunday before Memorial Day, an estimated 375,000 people gather for "The Greatest Single-Day Sporting Event In The World," the Indy 500. Officially the race doesn't have a name. it is the only event held at the Indianapolis Motor Speed-way each year, and the tickets say simply, "500 mile race." But to a large segment of the American auto-racing...
...friends from Cincinatti chatted quietly of Bernie Carbo and Johnny Bench and the Big Red Machine. Another brought up the Dodgers and that infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey that seemed to play together forever as the boys in Freeway Blue rolled through the late '70s. For my part, I just rambled back to first grade and those Amazing Mets of 1969--Al Weiss, Tommy Agee, Cleon Jones ("You remember what happened to Cleon?" --the back seat of that car, those drugs, that woman...
...strengths of the statistic. Slash-hitter George Brett, speedster Rickey and Henderson, and sluggers Reggie Jackson and Mike Schmidt all topped the prodigious 1,000 mark: yet all are vastly different offensive animals from one another. Overrated stars like Omar "The Out Maker" Moreno (.682) and Steve "No Walks" Garvey are uncovered under the precise camera of Totals Average. Boswell gleefully gloats...
...totally bright. Even under the previous four-year deal, a club could hardly avoid making money. The owners of the Denver Broncos, for example, paid $30 million for the team in 1981; the new TV payments alone will more than cover the cost in three years. According to Ed Garvey, chief of the Players Association: "Under the current labor structure, a team could conceivably make a $4 million or $5 million profit next year without selling one ticket...
...does not take a genius, however, to infer that Garvey envisions a new labor structure. Dissatisfied with the average player's salary of $90,000 (far less than the average in baseball and basketball), the union is seeking a deal that would be unique in sport. Under Garvey's plan-endorsed by all but a handful of the 500 attending the Players Association convention in Albuquerque last week-the union would take a fixed percentage (a proposed 55%) of the N.F.L. 's annual gross revenue. The money would then be distributed to players for the common good...