Ty Cobb And Vida Blue Holdouts Across Time
A 1913 salary dispute for Ty Cobb with Detroit owner Frank Navin mirrors 1971 tensions between Vida Blue and Oakland owner Charlie Finley. Both players faced pay clashes, suspensions, and public pressure as owners pressed for control and players sought higher pay and prestige.
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Frank Navin
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Charlie C. Finley
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Finley
Navin
Detroit
Harold Seymour
Tigers
Japan
United States
Sen. Hoke Smith
Georgia
Anttrust
Curt Flood
A’s
Oakland
Oakland Area
Lon Finley
Tiger
White Sox Sign Top Draft Choice
The Chicago White Sox signed their No 1 draft choice 18 year old Mike Ondina of Rancho Cordova California as announced Monday.
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White Sox
Chicago
UPI
Chicago White Sox
Mike Ondina
Rancho Cordova
Calif
Blalock vows to never miss another LPGA tourney after suit
Jane Blalock, runner up in the Eve LPGA Championship at Pleasant Valley, faces a possible one year suspension for alleged unethical conduct amid a $5 million antitrust suit against the LPGA. She spoke of fan support, tour pressure, and mixed reactions from fellow players as court action looms in Atlanta.
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Portsmouth
Miss Blalock
Kathy Ahern
LPGA
Pleasant Valley
Cedeno Wins Weekly N L Player of the Week
Cesar Cedeno of the Houston Astros earned the National League Player of the Week honor for June 5 to 11. He hit .455 with 10 hits in 22 at bats including two home runs two triples and two doubles. Cedeno delivered a two run homer and three RBIs in a win over the New York Mets.
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San Francisco
Cesar Cedeno
Houston Astros
Charles S. Fenney
Cedeno
Astro
Astros
New York Mets
Houston
Jimmy Wynn
Bob Watson
Boxing hopeful Bob Hunter may miss Olympic chance
Munich Germany reports boxing hopeful Bob Hunter an imprisoned US boxer with an 18 year manslaughter term faces potential Olympic ban. IOC rules and US Olympic Committee discussions probe whether he can compete while housed by authorities. Hunter, Pan American bronze medalist, travels with guard Ray Satterfield amid trials.
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Munich
Germany
UPD
Bobby Lee Hunter
United States
Hunter
Cali
Colombia
America
Willi Daume
Daume
Mittee
Brundage
IOC
Ray Satterfield
Britain
Soviet Union
Recruiters Target Connie Hawkins In College Bonanza
In a 1960s trend, Connie Hawkins, a Bed‑Ford Stuyvesant standout with a seventh grade reading level, attracted college recruiters who courted him with money and incentives. Nathan Mazer helped raise his test scores, but Hawkins faced a corrupt landscape as Molinas entered with offers and manipulation.
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Connie Hawkins
Hawkins
Connie
Bedford
Stuyvesant
New
Seattle
Indiana
Illinois
Northwestern
Iowa
Colorado
Ohio State
Hawk
Nathan Mazer
Boys High
O.K
Mazer
Mr. Davies
Towa
Shortstop fundamentals and a tale of Hawkin’s gamble link
An instructional piece details shortstop duties from range to double plays and throws. It shifts to a tale about Hawkins and Molinas, tracing a bribery scheme to fix college basketball games and lure promising players into gambling lines on Long Island.
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Molinas
Jack
Connie
Roger
Long Island
Former California Manager Harold Lefty Phillips Dies
Harold Lefty Phillips 53 former California Angels manager died after a severe asthma attack. He rose from scouting to MLB roles with St Louis Browns Reds Dodgers, signed Don Drysdale and Ron Fairly, and coached for the Dodgers 1965 1968 before joining the Angels as director of player personnel and later manager. He died at St Jude’s Hospital after returning from an Angels scouting trip. He is survived by wife Roberta, son Dewayne 29 daughter Charleen 27 and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Calif
UPI
Harold
Lefty” Phillips
California Angels
Bisbee
Phillips
St. Louis Browns
Cincinnati Reds
Brooklyn Dodgers
Don Drysdale
Ron
Dodgers
Bill Rigney
Angels
Alex Johnson
The
Fullerton
St. Jude’s Hospital
Los Angeles
Roberta
Dewayne
Charleen
Summer Basketball Starts Tonight At Woodrow Wilson
Joel Hicks announces the Woodrow Wilson High School summer league with eight teams led by captains Gillian Cavendish Fleenor Keatley File Culicerto Culicerto and Doolittle. Competition starts June 13 with two games nightly and ends in a double elimination tournament starting July 17.
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Woodrow Wilson
Joel Hicks
Woodrow Wilson High School
Charles Gillian
Robert Elliot
Dennis Boyden
Leroy Stewart
Allan Lilly
Rick Vance
Thomas McKain
Walter Hughes
Mike Cavendish
Glenn Davis
Tom Rappold
David Neal
Danny Cuffee
Wesley Barranger
Tyrone Saunders
Jack Fleenor
Ronnie Napper
Steve Mann
Ronald Jennings
Greg Shumate
Pat Wooton
David Robertson
Chip Keatley
Henry Coltrane
Freddie Wright
Albert Hamilton
Gary Williams
Jim Bowles
James Bandy
John File
David Bailey
Tom Martin
Tim Greer
Doug Korczyk
Andy Fama
Tom Wooton
Eddie Culicerto
Paul Wheeler
Tim Thompson
Butch Smith
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NEA
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Sam ‘Crawford
Jane Blalock
Bob Hunter
David Wolf
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc
Eddie Churar
Manhattan Beach
Connie’s
Jack Molinas
By Charles Kuhn
Columbia
Joey
California
Harold ‘Lefty’ Phillips
KING
Edward Imperials
Winthrop
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