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...Smith's yearbook of history, with all the other Bobby Thompsons, Monte Irvins, and Red Schoendists of baseball lore. It was at once a touching and thrilling moment--for even the most hardbitten of Yankee or Brewer fans. And for the Oriole fan, it almost was like watching a slice of history...
...while the franchises share and share alike, say the players, the athletes are treated to a skimpy slice of the pie. Despite the fact that their average salary of $90,000 is not exactly K rations, football players are the worst paid of major professional athletes (see chart). Three baseball players, New York Yankee Dave Winfield, Philadelphia Phillie Mike Schmidt and California Angel Reggie Jackson, together make more than the entire 45-man roster of the Dallas Cowboys...
...wage scale idea would give the union collective power over the size of player contracts--something that used to be solely between each individual owner and player. And giving the players a slice of the television bonanza forces the owners to bargain with the networks on behalf of the union as well as themselves--providing a potential rationale for direct player participation in negotiations with the broadcasters...
...School has only one Black man and one white woman among its 65 tenured professors, it is hard to argue that minorities have taken more than their share of positions. But there is clearly a widespread fear that in a fixed pie of 65 tenured positions, the minority slice gets larger only by making other slices smaller...
While the 132-year-old Amex is mainly known for its credit cards, travelers checks and a worldwide network of travel agencies, those businesses now account for only about 35% of the company's profits, which totaled $518 million last year. The largest slice of earnings, nearly 40%, came from Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, the world's largest insurer of movie productions and the eighth biggest American property and liability underwriter. The brokerage business from its subsidiary Shearson contributed another 20% to earnings. Additional parts of the diversified corporate empire include Mitchell Beazley Ltd., the British...