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...most daily sportswriters, such as the one that flared this year in New York over the early disintegration of the Mets. Some of the star players were unhappy because they felt the tight-fisted management of M. Donald Grant was shortchanging the team out of any possibility of pennant contention. The fracas that ensued among the local hacks was almost as intense as the dissension within the team. The Post called for the board of directors to dump Grant and manager Joe Frazier; Dick Young in the News said Grant should get rid of Tom Seaver, Jon Matlack, Dave Kingman...
Elsewhere, Gene Autry, the Angels' owner who thought he bought himself a pennant, now realizes that all he did was lasso himself another mediocre club. Million-dollar free agent Don Baylor is particularly useful to the team: his .207 batting average wouldn't let him play in the Pacific Coast League...
...Dodgers won 22 of their first 26 games, the quickest start of any major league team since 1955, when baseball was still played in Brooklyn. That Dodger team lost only two of their first 24, coasted to the pennant, then whipped the dreaded Yankees for their first-ever World Series win. Those were the "Bums" of Campanella, Reese, Hodges and Robinson, the "Duke" of Flatbush and big Don Newcombe, whose pinch hitting was as fearsome as his fastball. There was also a little lefthander on the pitching roster named Tommy Lasorda. He was shipped back to the minors after compiling...
Horn Blowing. True fans need no convincing. They can read Five Seasons for remembrances of games, pennant races and World Series past, for another chance to think about their beloved sport under the tutelage of an expert. Yet Angell's passion for baseball is enough to convert the heathen. Millions of casual TV viewers saw Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk's extra-inning home run in the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. Angell's account goes beyond the heroics on the field. He imagines people all over New England receiving the news-"jumping...
...grosses $7,700,000 in total revenue. However, now that players have bargaining power, salary increases will cut deeply into the earnings level. While low wages virtually guaranteed a net profit to every team, even perennial losers, now the pressure is on to win. Since one cannot buy a pennant per se, but only those players whose combined skills appear to provide the magic blend, baseball owners today are involved in a more risky and expensive affair than ever before. To purchase the services of a top quality ballplayer today is much like buying a thoroughbred: if the horse lives...