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Sports No Longer Fun And Games
A century hence historians will mark 1976 as a year when big money reshaped sports yet superb stars like Chris Evert Dorothy Hamill Nadia Comaneci and Joe Morgan Tony Dorsett shone. The season featured free agency court battles Gordon Finley bowing to action and a shift to businesslike salaries while Nadia and Bruce Jenner highlighted Olympic triumphs and Mark Fidrych ignited baseball attendance records.
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Will Grimsley
U.S
Florida
Chris Evert
Dorothy Hamill
Nadia Comanici
Romania
Cincinnati
Joe Morgan
University of Pittsburgh
Tony Dorsett
Money
Julius
Dr. J’ Erving
Philadelphia 76Ers
New York Nets
Bob McAdoo
Buffalo Braves
New York Knickerbockers
Muhammad Ali
Major League Baseball
Charles O. Finley
Oakland A’s
Bowie Kuhn
Baseball
Finley
Joe Rudi
Rollie Fingers
Boston Red Sox
Vida Blue
New York Yankees
Rudi
Fingers
Reggie Jackson
Don Gullett
Cincinnati Reds
Gabe Paul
Yankees
Donald Grant
New York Mets
Montreal
South Africa
New Zealand
Soviet Union
Taiwan
Munich
United States
East Germany
Leipzig
Nadia Comaneci
Russia
Olga Korbut
Bruce Jenner
John Naber
Innsbruck
Tenley Albright
Carol Heiss
Peggy Fleming
Sheila Young
Rainbow
Peter Mueller
U. S
Mark Fidrych
Detroit
Big Red
Johnny Bench
National Football League
Rozelle
Joe Namath
New York Jets
O. J. Simpson
Buffalo
Jets
Bills
Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh
Oakland
Minnesota
Los Angeles
Steel City
Georgia
Dorsett
Big Money
Ken Norton