Word: semipro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tartikoff. He took a job at a New Haven TV station, while playing semipro baseball for the New Haven Braves. Soon he was at Chicago's WLS-TV, run by Lew Erlicht, who introduced him to Fred Silverman. From Erlicht (now president of ABC Entertainment), Tartikoff picked up programming smarts; from Silverman, he learned the importance of loving TV. Even today Tartikoff can rhapsodize about his job as if he were a kid who has just been deeded the - candy store. "In movies," he says, "unless you make E.T., you reach maybe as many people as watched a TV show...
DIED. Edward J. Daly, 61, pugnacious founder of World Airways and originator of no-frills U.S. air fares; after a long illness; in Orinda, Calif. Once a semipro boxer, Daly parlayed two World War II military planes (cost: $50,000) into a hugely lucrative charter line in the 1950s. In 1979 he offered one-way, cross-country tickets for $99.99, but major-airline competition, a strike, high fuel costs and a grounded fleet of DC-10s during a safety scare nearly plucked World...
Billy Pierce, the ideal White Sox pitcher of the 1950s, rediscovered him on a sand lot. Kittle was playing semipro baseball, after a day's heavy work, for a Chicago team identified beguilingly as AHEPA, which, even some of the players forget, stands for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association. Any White Sox scout might have found Kittle, but the fact that it was Pierce means something to South Siders, who are also pleased to recall that it was Peg-Legged Bill Veeck who signed the young slugger. For Veeck still owned the team in 1978 and was presiding...
ENGAGED. Marie Osmond, 22, singing, smiling princess of the land of Osmond; and Steve Craig, 25, former Brigham Young University basketball star who now plays semipro. The couple plan to marry June 26, in a family-only ceremony in the Salt Lake Mormon Temple, followed by a reception...
...print with his impressions of the Florida and Arizona training camps, early warmups for the major league season ahead. Midsummers often bring his reflections from far off the beaten base paths: he has spent some time with a former star or picked up on the fortunes of an obscure semipro pitcher. After the World Series, he recaps the autumn games and the various heroics leading up to them. Now another pattern is emerging. His pieces were collected into books in 1972 (The Summer Game) and 1977 (Five Seasons). No fan will have trouble interpreting these statistics. It is 1982, time...