Word: wade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what most doctors would have prescribed for an otherwise healthy adult). She also gave him an extra dose of the corticosteroids he regularly takes to compensate for his longstanding adrenal insufficiency. The fever rose to a high of 101.6° at 7 in the morning. New York Surgeon Preston Wade, who had been called in several times by Dr. Travell for consultation on the back injury, flew in to help decide whether the virus had affected Kennedy's ailing back. Press Secretary Salinger announced that the President's appointments for the day were canceled...
...Scattered among the gum-chewing, chattering teenagers were 30 older but equally familiar figures. To Dale Blasingame, those men meant money in the bank. Every one was a major league scout, and every one was sizing up Dale's 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb., 17year-old son Wade. "I'm in the business of analyzing values," says Blasingame, "and I had a good idea of what the market was on a lefthanded pitcher like...
Business Was Good. It was a seller's market. That day young Wade Blasingame effortlessly beat Hanford High 5-2, struck out 16 batters. By graduation he had a won-lost record of 26-0, five no-hitters, an average of 15 strike-outs a game, a niggardly 0.45 earned-run average, and eight major league clubs on his tail. While a platoon of scouts watched, wheedled and courted Wade. Dale Blasingame did all the talking for his boy. The talk was blunt, sometimes brutal. "Half a dozen teams were in there with high offers," says he. "Some others...
...hours after he graduated, young Wade Blasingame finally got into the act himself, signed a contract with the Milwaukee Braves for a $100,000 bonus. "Not a penny less and not a penny more," says his proud father. "And he gets a darn good salary besides...
...Binge. Wade Blasingame was only one of several bonus babies the Braves have landed this season by all but digging into the mortgage money: four other pitchers cost them around $275,000. (Clubs never disclose exact bonuses, are suspected of wildly inflating some figures for publicity, deflating others to prevent resentment among their regular players.) Nor was Milwaukee the only club showering greenbacks on green schoolboys. June graduations brought on a binge of bonus payments that have cost the majors close to $4,000,000, and Los Angeles Dodger Scouting Director Al Campanis figures that teen-age stars will take...