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...McCardell claimed that the work rules and other inefficiencies had cost the company $1.3 billion over the previous three years and vowed to make some important changes. But on Nov. 1, 1979, 35,000 workers walked out rather than accept the new work rules. The strike, which became the longest in U.A.W. history, lasted 172 days, cost the company $400 million in lost profits, and boosted short-term debt from $442 million to a staggering $1 billion...
Entering last night's game at Fenway, Martin was still one away from his longest losing streak as manager, an eight-gamer with the 1973 Detroit Tigers (June 19-25). Despite a well-publicized blow-up earlier in the week, life isn't hard in the Oakland clubhouse these days, according to Fowler. "When Billy wins, he's always pushing and pushing, and doesn't let up. When he starts to lose a little bit, he backs...
Within the first five minutes of overtime. Crimson backs Kip Mackenzie and Sabin Willet broke the two longest runs of the game and almost provided Harvard with the national title. Following Mackenzie's run and subsequent kick, one California player said that the Bears "were only hanging on by a thread...
With the new season just 2½ weeks old, the A's have delivered an emphatic answer to the hot-stove skeptics: the longest season-opening streak in modern baseball history. Oakland won its first eleven games, breaking the ten-game record held by three teams. Throughout that remarkable span, the A's starting pitchers completed all but one game and compiled a miserly 1.27 earned run average. At week's end Oakland had won 15 of 16 games, opening a full ten-game lead over the defending champion Kansas City Royals...
...over," Yogi Berra once remarked of baseball games. And this one isn't over yet. After 8 hr. 7 min. and 32 innings, the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox of the International League's Class AAA set the record for the longest game in the history of organized baseball, in both innings played and time elapsed. Suspended at 4:07 Easter Sunday morning with the score tied 2-2, the game will resume June 23. Of the original crowd of 1,740 fans only 47 were still on hand...