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...Monday past, baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the leading practitioner of legalistic high-wire acrobatics that would befuddle the Wallenda brothers, voided the sale of Oakland's ace lefty Vida Blue to the Cincinnatti Reds for $1.75 million. Kuhn nixed the sale, as he had an earlier deal for Blue's services between Oakland owner Charlie Finley and the Yankees, on the grounds that it was not "in the best interests of baseball...
...Ruffing, Joe Black, Vida Blue, Bob by Brown. Work has begun on an all-rhyming team. So far, compilers have not been able to go beyond Don Hahn, Ed Head and Matt Batts...
...baseball salaries on other teams soared, his tightfisted policies led to a wholesale desertion by the A's biggest stars. He was forever feuding with Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, whom he once called "the village idiot"; the most notable battle involved Finley's attempt to sell Vida Blue, Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers for $3.5 million in cash before they departed in the free-agent market. Kuhn voided the deal, claiming it was not "in the best interests of baseball." Despite all that, Finley was a topflight baseball man, whose shrewd trades and sharp eye for nascent superstars...
...divorcees are the lovely Cynthia Karslake (Blythe Danner), a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock, and Vida Phillimore (Rosemary Harris), a playful past mistress of the chaise longue. Cynthia has become engaged to the divorced Mr. Phillimore (Stephen Collins), a man as stiff as the judicial bench over which he presides. Vida is on the prowl for the charm-charged divorced Mr. Karslake...
...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...