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...hear from the players nowadays is gimme, gimme, gimme and threat, threat, threat. I'm getting sick and tired of it," complained Oakland Athletics Owner Charles Finley, who has been devoting much of his energy lately to a contract hassle with Pitcher Vida Blue. Other owners reflected the same hard line. Declared Beer Baron Gussie Busch, owner of the St. Louis...
...much attention to this division last year since it was already a one team race about a month into the campaign. Just as in the East, there isn't much question about who will win. Oakland had the Seat pitching next to the Orioles, with or without movie star Vida Blue, and has a good offense to match. Reggie Jackson, the moody slugger, made a strong comeback last year and may do even better this year, while Campy Campaneris, Sal Bando, and Mike Epstein will produce enough runs between them to assure the A's of a second chance against...
What are the chances of anyone's demanding, and receiving, a 530% raise these days? Not too good-especially when there are Government wage guidelines and a boss like Oakland A's Owner Charles Finley to contend with. Not too good-unless your name is Vida Blue, who last week mounted one of the more imaginative counterattacks in the history of baseball salary disputes. After months of futile negotiations with Finley and a brief disappearance, the 22-year-old pitching star emerged in Oakland to tell a disbelieving news conference that he was retiring to sell bathroom...
...this is baseball theater at its most entertaining, but it still is likely that Finley and Blue will reach some sort of agreement. The next question is: Will there be a baseball season for Vida to pitch in? By week's end, 13 major league teams had voted, most of them unanimously, to approve some form of strike before the season begins -if the owners do not kick in at least an additional $10 million for the players' pension and medical-care funds...
...southpaw sensation of the 1971 baseball season, Pitcher Vida Blue of the Oakland Athletics, has just been named the Most Valuable Player in the American League by the Baseball Writers Association. It made a double for the 22-year-old after only one full season in the major leagues. Last month he won the Cy Young Award as the year's outstanding pitcher...