Word: holtzman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broad Phrasing. The outcome stunned feminists. Both states had voted quickly to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, and were expected to pass interim state versions just as handily. "It's hard to believe and harder to accept," said Brooklyn Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman. New York Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak blamed "the forces of confusion...
...Watergate, but then so does every other female however remotely connected to the scandal. This paste-up of old clippings serves principally as a reminder that Watergate created not just victimized wives but several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, Representatives Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman. Aside from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow up in a way that would lead any rational observer...
...stops looking for new players or trading for established veterans. "No team is ever set," he says, "even a winner." Of the 26 players on the winning team in the 1972 World Series, only nine are still in Oakland uniform: Jackson, Rudi, Tenace, Bando, Campaneris, Blue, Fingers, Southpaw Ken Holtzman and Reserve Outfielder Angel Mangual...
...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 $60,000 to $100,000, Holtzman's from $66,500 to $93,0000. This year Bando and Holtzman took a beating. Bando, who thought he had earned a raise by knocking in 103 runs and producing 24 game-winning hits in 1974, got no increase. Holtzman won 19 games and pitched one World Series victory...
Finley, whose $1.4 million player payroll is among baseball's highest, could not care less. "Sure, Bando had some clutch hits," he says. "Don't I deserve something for $100,000? As for Holtzman ?hell, he won 21 games in 1973. What am I supposed to do, give him a raise for having a worse year? These guys are just bad losers...