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Squabbling over telephones and airplanes is, in fact, only preliminary skirmishing for Finley and his employees. Despite occasional outbursts of generosity?this year he impulsively gave Claudell Washington a midseason $10,000 raise for his hitting???thrifty is the word for Finley. The big annual battles center on money. Since baseball adopted arbitration for salary disputes two years ago, an astonishing one-third of the 46 players who have tried that tactic have been A's. In 1974 three won major victories: Jackson's salary soared from $75,000 to $135,000, Bando's from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie Finely: Baseball's Barnum | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

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