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...June of 1980, Lessie McMiller took a $44,000 second mortgage on his Oakland, Calif., home to buy the La Rue restaurant in Emeryville, Calif., and go into business for himself. Yet no sooner did he open his doors than the Bay Area restaurant business began to dry up. For a while, Me Miller's suppliers delayed payments on his monthly food and laundry bills, but then they began demanding cash on delivery. As his debts grew-eventually to more than $4,000 per month in payments-McMiller tried to borrow his way out of trouble, but no bank...
Graig Nettles delivered the New York Yankees to the World Series in a suitably Yankee way. When he was through batting out the Oakland A's in three straight play-off games for the American League pennant, the third baseman scuffled with Teammate Reggie Jackson for good measure...
Though New York Owner George Steinbrenner and Oakland Manager Billy Martin flapped at the umpires and each other every now and then, that was nothing compared with the flapping in the wives' section of Yankee Stadium. There Ginger Nettles and the seasoned wives' corps whipped bedsheet banners around in a whirlwind. PLAN A ALL THE WAY, read one, referring to the first of the Steinbrenner A, B, C "scenarios." Under Plan A, most of the team would return next year; under Plans B and C, varying numbers of players would be jettisoned to make way for new talent...
...Player in the playoffs, thoroughly upstaged any possible Billy-Reggie-George melodrama. Graig is not much for the sort of public theater these three seemed to enjoy when all were together in New York City. Nevertheless, Nettles found himself center stage at the team's victory party in Oakland. Angry that several guests of Jackson's had been rude to his family, Nettles confronted his teammate, and the two got into a spirited shoving match. "It's nothing new for this team," Nettles said. "I hope it's forgotten...
Most embarrassing, the Royals, twelve games out of first at the time of the strike, managed to get their act together well enough to capture the second-half crown. Perhaps fortunately for the game, Oakland eliminated the unworthy Royals in three straight last week. As it was, the play-off games had an oddly perfunctory character. "I should be excited, but I'm awfully relaxed," said Oakland Infielder Wayne Gross, after hitting a three-run homer in the A's opening victory. "Somehow this mini-series seems devalued...