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...doubles matches resulted with more loves than Zsa Zsa Gabor and continued relentless play by Williams. The number one tandem of Liz Livingstone and Abbie Greenbaumme got Jim Ottoed 6-0, 6-0, as did the number three of Melissa Allen and Amy Kuhn. The number two duo of Kathy Coakley and Linda Marr were soundly waxed 6-3, 6-1 to roundout the goose egg parade...
...strangest and most successful season ever. The sport's legal underpinnings were cut away in the courts before spring training began. Opening day was in doubt for a while as owners-fearful at the prospect of free agents-locked the players out of training camps. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn finally ordered the camps opened while the players' union and management struggled toward a compromise. Oakland A's Owner Fearsome Charlie Finley decided the price of peace was too high and peddled five of his biggest stars, including Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers. Kuhn killed the deal...
Side by side in a box for a game at Yankee Stadium last week, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger-long a Yankee fan-and Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn-under threat of a lawsuit by the Yankees (TIME, June 28)-may have been secretly wondering what it would be like to switch jobs for a while. Kuhn could use shuttle diplomacy to bring about détente between team owners and players, whose contract impasse is as hard a problem to solve as the one in the Middle East. And Kissinger could use some advice on how to negotiate...
...fortune, bought the moribund Sox in 1933 and over the years spent lavishly to acquire such top players as Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and most recently Oakland's Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers (the sale of their contracts was nullified by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn). So generously treated that they were nicknamed the Gold Sox, the team never won a World Series for Yawkey but did take three American League pennants (in 1946, 1967, 1975), last year coming within a hairbreadth of winning one of baseball's most thrilling series...
...week's end Blue, Fingers and Rudi belonged back in Oakland's green and Finley was out $3.5 million of the long green. He also was heading straight for court as were the Yankees. Finley's characterization of Kuhn: "He sounds like the village idiot...