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...like them apples, how do you like the sound of Vida Blue, Bob Knepper, Ed Halicki and John Montefusco starting? Or Randy Moffitt, John Curtis and Gary Lavelle relieving? It's the best staff anywhere--go bleed some Dodger Blue, Tommy LaSorda...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Big League Pennant Fights Open This Week | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

...baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing San Francisco Pitcher Vida Blue, who reportedly could earn up to $800,000 next year. Rose also zooms past San Francisco's O.J. Simpson, the aristocrat of pro football ($733,358), and Denver's David Thompson, pro basketball's top banana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Christmas Comes Early for Pete | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...spotted only on beaches, at discos and in therapy groups, are flocking to Candlestick Park, breaking all attendance records (1.3 million, nearly doubled since last year). Now they dance in the stadium after victory, howl for Dodger blood and scream their affection for a new-found love, Pitcher Vida Blue. "Bloo! Bloo! Bloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants and Dodgers Tangle Again | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...commissioner praised Finley for giving up his attempts to dispose of his star players in straight cash deals. In a recent transaction which heartened Kuhn, Finley sent hurler Vida Blue to San Francisco for cash plus six young players who have helped the surprising As to the best record in baseball after one month of play this year...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Free Agent System Discussed By Commissioner Bowie Kuhn | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...Vida blue? The Oakland Athletics star pitcher had hoped to leave his losing team (last year's record: 63-98) and join the talent-heavy Cincinnati Reds. But Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who nixed the plans of Oakland A's Owner Charley Finley to sell Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million in 1976, once again ruled no. Kuhn has set an informal ceiling on player sales-$400,000-and Finley this time was asking $1.75 million for Blue. Besides, declared Kuhn, "conduct which unreasonably saps the game of competitive balance surely is not in the best interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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