Word: rickey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rolling Stones and Cream had never recorded. "Comin' Home" owes its existence in part to the early Allman Brothers, the group that Skynyrd always played second Les Paul to until just before the end. And thrown in for filler are two songs by then drummer and vocalist Rickey Medlocke which are so un-Skynyrd-like in their flutey ballad styling that they seem to have snuck onto the record while the producer was out to lunch...
DIED. Jesse Haines, 85, Hall of Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals; in Dayton, Ohio. In 1920, after other major-league teams shunned him, Haines was signed up for the then considerable sum of $10,000 by Branch Rickey, manager of the Cardinals. Haines relied on his knuckle-ball to compile a 210-158 lifetime won-lost record with a 3.64 earned run average. A quiet player who tended a commercial garage offseason, he pitched until he was 44, earning the fond nickname "Pop" from his teammates, the "Gashouse Gang...
...have mingled sport and avarice in perfect laissez-faire. A promoter named Mike Jacobs sent Joe Louis forth to fight an opponent each month. Years later, when all the checks were deposited, Jacobs retired. Louis had to beg the IRS for mercy. As president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey wrote himself a contract that included a percentage of receipts from the sale of players developed on 20 Dodger farm teams. Rickey spent his final years calculating compound interest. Some players whom he sold for $150,000 are now unemployed. Historically, you did not make millions playing ball. You made...
...Harvard Square that gives pinball players three balls per game instead of five, Thomas Stefanian, owner of Tommy's Lunch, replies: "Let me tell you something. These guys, some of them, with their feet up when they sit there, and using all these napkins for a raspberry lime rickey, who come in the door all the time wanting stuff they can't get at no other place because I've been in business here longer than any of 'em. But seriously...
...were transient, his friendships permanent. Sidney Weil, onetime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, with whom the Lip did many a dubious battle, is "the nicest, kindest man I have ever known." Ed Barrow of the Yankees, a notorious Durocher rival, is "the best friend I had in baseball." Branch Rickey, another erstwhile enemy, is "the great man" in Leo's life...