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...Bowie Kuhn, the Commissioner of Baseball, must have been a happy man last week. For the first time in four years, the World Series was not a stage for Kuhn's No. 1 nemesis, A's Owner Charlie Finley, and Oakland's annual post-season melodrama of clubhouse brawls and management-player disputes. Instead, baseball's show of shows was a tight, tense struggle between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. It even featured an old-fashioned flap over an umpire's call and an indeterminably aged Cuban pitcher with a penchant for cigars...
...week in a state somewhere between turmoil and anarchy. Two of their top relief pitchers, Rollie Fingers and John ("Blue Moon") Odom, were recovering from an impromptu locker-room brawl. Star Slugger Reggie Jackson (TIME cover, June 3) was playing on probation, having been warned by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for threatening a reporter. Pitcher Jim ("Catfish") Hunter was embroiled in a public contract dispute with Svengalian Owner Charles O. Finley, who was overruling Manager Alvin Dark by ordering last-minute lineup changes. So who destroyed the opposition four games to one with crisp, aggressive play? Of course...
...appointment ends what had become a national disgrace. Team owners had simply lacked the guts to select any of the blacks who have enriched the game in recent years. Today, 150 of the sport's 600 major leaguers are black. Earlier this season, even Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn felt constrained to issue a public call for the selection of a black...
...Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball, must dream about Septembers like this. All too often the coming of crisp evenings means limp competition -pennant races already decided, games being played for the sake of the schedule. Last week, for a change, there were tight races in three of the four major league divisions, providing more drama than any September has seen since baseball expanded...
...boats made up of the best from several colleges and boat clubs. Both the eight--which last year consisted of cox Nancy Hadley, Allison Hill, Connie Cervilla, Wiki Royden, Judith Ames, Alison Hall, Jenny Getsinger, Marie Adams, and Katie Moss--and the four--Barbara Norris, Anne Robinson, Sarah Kuhn, Robin Lothrop, and cox Amy Sachs--should be strong again this year...