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With the threat of another Black Sox scandal looming, Commissioner Kuhn broke his strikelong silence to assure fans that he would "preserve the integrity of the game." The playoff plan was altered so that if a club won both halves, the second playoff spot would go to the team with the second best record during the second season. Thus each team would have to win games, not lose them, against every opponent. Cincinnati Reds President Dick Wagner called the solution a "whitewash," an understandable complaint since Kuhn had effectively nullified 35 Reds' victories in the first half. Equally outraged...
...John M. Kuhn...
...clear that the economy, as well as businesses by the tens of thousands, would suffer jolts aplenty if protracted and real chaos wrecked the smooth functioning of commercial aviation throughout the U.S. Says Robert Joedicke, an airlines industry expert with New York City's Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment-banking firm: "Air transport is the nation's only basic means of transportation beyond 500 miles. Without air transport, you absolutely hamstring the economy." Just how much it is hamstrung will depend on the duration of the turmoil in the skies...
...Dade County stockade for a year. Texas Rangers Pitcher Ferguson Jenkins made headlines with his arrest and conviction last year after Canadian customs officials found cocaine, marijuana and hashish in his suitcase. Although Jenkins' conviction was erased, he was suspended for two weeks by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Last February, Thomas ("Hollywood") Henderson, a former Dallas Cowboys linebacker, checked him self into a Scottsdale, Ariz., drug rehabilitation center. Says he: "Drugs became my downfall. I lost friends, family and career...
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is pessimistic. Says he: "The players may have miscalculated the determination of the owners." A strike as devastating as the 13-day walkout in 1972 is possible. That would not only darken the future of baseball, but also ruin a perfectly glorious spring...