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...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...
Coming 27 years after Branch Rickey put a Dodger uniform on another Robinson and summarily broke the color line on the playing field, the appointment ends what had become a national disgrace. Team owners had simply lacked the guts to select any of the blacks who have enriched the game in recent years. Today, 150 of the sport's 600 major leaguers are black. Earlier this season, even Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn felt constrained to issue a public call for the selection of a black...
...token $25,-000 plus percentages; others worked for even less, lured by high-caliber colleagues, juicy roles and the chance to permanently record their performances in those roles on film. When Landau approached Marvin to play Hickey in Iceman, Marvin's answer was to quote at length Rickey's fourth-act soliloquy...