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...players' strike, which lasted 50 days. Indeed, Kuhn had kept such a low profile that reporters blackly joked that the strike never would have happened if Kuhn had been alive. Like most past baseball commissioners, Kuhn was widely regarded as the owners' man, hired to do their bidding. Ueberroth struck a more independent stance, even siding with the players on the crucial issue of the salary cap. He argued that the free market should set players' salaries...
...Players' Association's permission to take a cut over the maximum 20% to return to Cincinnati." This shift dropped him from a high of nearly $2 million to below $500,000. He smiles. "Where would I be without the Players' Association?" Had the owners elected to bluff through a struck season with minor leaguers, he was agreeable to managing the Reds. But Rose, the player, would have been on strike. "I wasn't going to get the hit that way," he shudders. "I think most people will forgive me for breaking Cobb's record. From the beginning, didn't they...
...gray outline is unclear. But on the 1973 night of his 2,000th hit, near the end of an interview, he observed casually, "Cobb took this long to get 1,861." By 1981, when Rose led the league in hits at the age of 40, but 55 games were struck, he was heard to worry, "Cobb is getting further away." If not in Philadelphia at the mean end of the 1983 World Series against Baltimore, then in Montreal at the bad beginning of last year, the chase seemed doomed. Thanks in huge measure to Rose, their richest free agent...
...worst mark ever. In the era of the spitball he led the league in hitting a dozen seasons, and went over .400 three times. His lifetime batting average was .367. No one has ever equaled his bat control: in 1926, when he hit .339, he struck out twice...
...more efficient, assertive U.N. to deal with the world's woes. Many stepped straight from the General Assembly rostrum to a small room nearby to help TIME Photographer Eddie Adams memorialize the week in an unusual way. One by one, waving his or her national flag, each struck a pose in salute to the U.N.'s 40th birthday. Herewith a selection from that gallery...