Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vida blue? The Oakland Athletics star pitcher had hoped to leave his losing team (last year's record: 63-98) and join the talent-heavy Cincinnati Reds. But Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who nixed the plans of Oakland A's Owner Charley Finley to sell Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million in 1976, once again ruled no. Kuhn has set an informal ceiling on player sales-$400,000-and Finley this time was asking $1.75 million for Blue. Besides, declared Kuhn, "conduct which unreasonably saps the game of competitive balance surely is not in the best interests...
...Owner Steve Rubell, who light-show years away was a Wall Street broker, is striving for permanent chic. Most nights he stations himself at the doorway (with a few bouncers) to weed the throngs begging for entrance. "We only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have of getting in. We discourage the Bagel Nosh-polyester group...
...glad that so many of you clearly did understand. You were willing to forego our ice cream for a cause. Together, you and we tried to hold the new owner to the assurances which got him the store: that he would respect the peculiarly democratic form of the place. We're grateful to you, and we're proud that we struggled, picketing 14 chilly weeks, before conceding that the old Steve's was gone for good. It was worth fighting...
...Bowie Kuhn, the leading practitioner of legalistic high-wire acrobatics that would befuddle the Wallenda brothers, voided the sale of Oakland's ace lefty Vida Blue to the Cincinnatti Reds for $1.75 million. Kuhn nixed the sale, as he had an earlier deal for Blue's services between Oakland owner Charlie Finley and the Yankees, on the grounds that it was not "in the best interests of baseball...
Moreover, Finley is not the first owner who tried to convert his ballclub into a bargain basement for the rest of the league--as chronicles of the life of Connie Mack will attest. Nor is George Steinbrenner of the Yankees the first owner who tried to bankroll a dynasty...