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...Swoboda: "This is a now situation, and baseball players are part of the now world." Catcher Thurman Munson agreed. "It ain't going to bother me," he said. "The only thing that's going to bother me is what they do on the mound." Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn predicted a "strained relationship" between Teammates Fritz and Mike ("I'd like to kill him," Mike said furiously). Nonetheless Yankee General Manager Lee MacPhail dismissed rumors that one of the pitchers would soon be involved in a conventional trade to avoid dissension. But he did admit to one concern...
...offered $30,000 or more for his sixth season. Charging that the "owners still feel they have a divine right," Miller pointed out that most players do not last five years in the majors and that the average salary is already $32,000. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who called the owners' proposal a "spectacular breakthrough," neglected to mention that they wanted to impose the $30,000 standard for ten years. In a decade, said Miller, "you could have a minimum salary of $25,000 to $30,000." The players compromised by offering to suspend action on the reserve clause...
Support. Baseball fans, the weariest group of all, would like to see an end to the tiresome rhubarb immediately. Kuhn, the tall, imposing champion of the grand old game, and Miller, the mustachioed former economics expert for the United Steel Workers of America, are both savvy, seasoned negotiators who know the value of public support. Yet both are carelessly alienating fans at a time when the big leagues need all the gate-building help they can get. Even the players are growing restless. "If there is another strike," says Pete Rose, the $100,000 rightfielder for the Cincinnati Reds...
Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and 'Jimmy the Greek' Snyder will testify before a Massachusetts legislative committee Tuesday on proposals to legalize state-run gambling on sports events...
...nation greeted the release with an honest and appropriate pleasure, but also with a few inevitable touches of somewhat exaggerated sentimentality. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was quick to offer each returnee a gold lifetime pass to any major-league game. The Ford Motor Co. wanted to give each of the prisoners a new car. There were sure to be other offers, and Pentagon officers sometimes found themselves squirming a bit at the spectacle. President Nixon struck the right note when he said, "This is a time that we should not grandstand it; we should not exploit...