Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much more literal than Black's piece is Morgenroth's "Five Aces," with music by Liszt. Five dancers from The Moving Company began by spoofing sport and ballet antics. Morgenroth saves these familiar themes from becoming cliches by developing the parodied gestures into more suggestive and complex movement sequences, fusing the non-literal and literal into an expression beyond satire...
...With one stroke of the pen, the moribund Braves had a bright new look. The signee was a handsome, 30-year-old, bubble-gum-chewing pitcher named Andy Messersmith, a free spirit and free agent whose victorious legal battle against baseball's "reserve clause" was reshaping the entire sport...
...such pretty nuances were nearly overwhelmed this spring by a tide of events that is sweeping through big-time professional sport. A mood of emancipation has changed the basic player-owner relationship. Pro football, basketball and hockey-under legal pressure-are all in various stages of changing the traditional serfdom in which owners have held players...
...team automatically has the right to renew his previous contract for another year. This has always been construed to mean that the club can keep on renewing indefinitely, a unique condition of servitude that has prevailed largely because of a 1922 Supreme Court decision that baseball is a sport, not a business, and therefore exempt from vast reaches of the law. But now, in the case of Andy Messersmith, the courts have upheld the ruling of a baseball arbitrator that if a player plays out his option-performs for a full season without signing-the contract cannot be extended again...
...yore. Football fans pay up to $18 a seat for thrills, chills, shocks and jolts. Baseball fans welcome thrills, too; last year's rousing World Series remains a vivid memory. But for their money they just ask for flavor. It won't be easy for the sport to reconcile its players' new clout with the need to keep ticket prices down to a daily digestible level, but then it isn't easy to throw or hit a nice pitch either. Showmen like Bill Veeck and operators like Ted Turner seem...