Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANK WIEDEFELD Tampa...
...BASSLER Tampa...
...Attraction. A swarthy, self-effacing man, Rebozo was born in Tampa, Fla., of Cuban parents in 1912. He worked as a chauffeur, airline steward and gas-station operator after finishing high school. At the end of World War II, he went into the coin-laundry business, then a finance company, finally into real estate. He is now president of the Fisher Corp., a Florida development firm in which Nixon holds shares valued at $400,000-double the amount he initially invested...
...does not have big-league possibilities but can do quite well in Class AA for 10 or even 15 years. I listened with incredulity during spring training of 1964 as a major league scout, wearing a Banlon and Bermuda shorts in the box seats of Al Lopez Field in Tampa, said the death of the minors was an act of mercy. "It got rid of the 'baseball bum,'" he said. "You know, these guys who spent their whole life in the minors, with no hope of making the big time, and were out in the cold when they were...
...Nephew got his contract and a trip to the Class D Geneva, N.Y,, Redlegs. He hit only .277, was ignored in the minor-league draft. Then he started to grow, stretching 4 in. and putting on 50 lbs., all of it muscle. In 1961, he swatted .331 at Tampa, and .330 at Macon, Ga., the following year. Still unimpressed, Cincinnati invited Pete to their spring-training camp in 1963 almost as an afterthought. He insinuated himself into an exhibition game, started slamming doubles all over Florida, and won the enmity of the Reds' regulars by taking a starting berth...