Word: uniformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson told a magazine reporter in March that other Yankee players seemed insecure and petty. That comment surfaced last week too. Now, with the Red Sox gone and Texas new in town, Jackson's fresh uniform was brought to him. Someone had taped an obscenity to the hanger...
...fieldhouse about eleven and head for your locker to get your things together but there's nothing new in your locker, you've seen it forty-seven thousand times and it smells about the same as well, and the guys that work down there have put your uniform in it so you can't pass any time doing that so you head into the training room to get taped up as a last resort. You ask around to see how long the lines are at each taping table and you try and worm into the line for your favorite trainer...
...help of Sons Nicholas and Jamie, Wyeth readied himself for the real reason for his visit: his induction into the prestigious Academic des Beaux-Arts. Only the second American painter to receive the honor-the first was John Singer Sargent-Wyeth gamely spruced up in the member's uniform, a style decreed by Napoleon: a dress suit richly embroidered with gold. "Splendid," beamed the artist, tucking the traditional bicorne under his arm. "I'll wear it to every dinner party...
...Peter Seitz. He ruled that Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally were no longer bound to their respective teams upon termination of their contract plus one additional renewal year. After that year, the players became free agents, able to offer their skills to the highest bidder. Seitz declared that the Uniform Players Contract did not grant a club a perennial option to an athlete's services. It is no wonder that this sweeping judgement, which obliterated the binding labor rules that had persisted for nearly one hundred years, thrust the major leagues into an unprecedented uproar...
Wilson also announced the establishment of a club council made up of club members to give clubs "a means of expressing their interests and needs to the Athletic Department." Another purpose of the council is to "make the clubs a little more orderly and uniform," he added...