Word: player
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Ostensibly, the problem was cash. The Major League Baseball Players' Association, which speaks for all the athletes through elected player representatives from each team, wants the club owners to enrich its pension fund with $6,500,000 for three years; the owners are offering $5,300,000. Yet as the infighting got nastier, it seemed to turn into a classic test of strength. On one side, an owner threatened: "If we can't use major-leaguers, we'll fill up our rosters with minor-leaguers." On the other, Marvin Miller, the $55,000-a-year negotiator...
...time," said Pitcher Pete Richert of the Baltimore Orioles. "You got to keep busy when you have four kids," said Chicago White Sox Catcher Russ Nixon. Though Ken Harrelson, the Boston Red Sox outfielder who led the American League in runs batted in last season, was the only name player to break the boycott so far, several others allowed that they would not hold out long...
...Italian fans are concerned, their big bambini can do no wrong. Tooling around town with a fellow player in the company's racy white Fiat, Tillman says that "we've been stopped for traffic violations a couple of times. But when the cop sees us, he tells us to win some games and lets us off without a ticket...
Other American players, accustomed to the slick, fast-breaking style of play in the U.S., return home out of frustration; while improving, European basketball at best is on a level with junior-college ball in the U.S. Playing conditions, like the cramped court on the third floor of the Abbey of Mercy church in Venice, are often less than ideal. Refereeing, which one U.S. player says favors the home team by a good 25 points, is woefully bad. And the European players, to whom teamwork is a job performed by oxen, would just as soon uncork an impossibly long...
...this," he says, fingering a new beaver overcoat. "Some businessman gave it to me. I never had it so good." Sometimes the hero worship gets out of hand. After a championship game in Italy three years ago, souvenir-mad fans rushed onto the court and stripped an American player right out of his shoes, socks, shirt and shorts...