Word: vida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father, who comes from a German-Mexican family, is a guitarist who sang Mexican songs to his four children when they were little. (Gilbert Ronstadt's name appears with Linda's and that of her friend Bass Player Kenny Edwards as co-author of Lo Siento Mi Vida on the album Hasten Down the Wind...
...George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees, isn't stupid. He went out and tried to reunite the championship pitching staff of the Oakland A's, and he's half done. Steinbrenner bought Catfish Hunter and Ken Holtzman by paying them exorbitant salaries. Next year he'll probably lure Vida Blue to New York (he already tried it this year) and then will have three of the four A's starters. Unfortunately for Steinbrenner, the fourth starter, Blue Moon Odom, hasn't been doing so well in the majors lately...
...players out of training camps. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn finally ordered the camps opened while the players' union and management struggled toward a compromise. Oakland A's Owner Fearsome Charlie Finley decided the price of peace was too high and peddled five of his biggest stars, including Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers. Kuhn killed the deal and set off still another court fight...
...fact, however, one group that SAVAK seems to have concentrated its attention on consists of writers, artists and intellectuals. Among those arrested and tortured in the past two or three years: Vida Hadjebi Tabrizi, a distinguished woman sociologist; Gholamhosseki Sa'edi, a renowned Iranian playwright, and Writer Fereydoun Tonokaboni...
...bigger one than O'Connell's acceptance of it: Boston would pay Finley $1 million for Outfielder Joe Rudi, 29, and $1 million for Relief Pitcher Rollie Fingers, 29. O'Connell was not, however, willing to spend a third million on the flashy lefthander, Vida Blue...