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...majors for two years. The owners wanted to raise the eligibility requirement to three years and limit any salary increase to 100%. The players refused to budge from the status quo. The other sticking point came over pensions. Traditionally the owners have given one-third of national television and radio revenue to the players' pension fund. With a new TV contract worth $1.1 billion over six years, the players' share under the old formula would have risen from $15 million a year to $60 million. The owners instead offered $25 million; the players demanded at least $40 million...
...into the game reflected their lucrative market potential. Nonetheless, in the bidding wars that are a fixture of baseball in the '80s, the wealthier owners can simply buy the better players. Since winning is the best way to draw fans to the park and sponsors to TV and radio, the poor just get poorer. The Cleveland Indians, for example, have managed to hold salaries down to less than half the league average, but they also are 34 games out of first place...
...charge. It did something to me, lifted my intensity a level, made me approach long-term goals like they were short-term goals. That winter I was playing for Reggie Otero, Hutch's third-base coach, in Venezuela. We were bouncing along in the bus, listening to the Spanish radio, when I thought I heard someone mention Hutchinson, and Reggie started crying. I knew Hutch was dead...
...small satellite called the plasma diagnostics package was suspended from the ship's giant remote arm to measure "ripples," or the wake that the shuttle causes in the earth's ionosphere. At several points, the shuttle fired its thrusters to poke temporary "holes" in the ionosphere, allowing radio astronomers based around the world to aim their telescopes through the gaps. Indeed, the experiments hummed along so well that NASA decided to extend the mission an extra...
...secrecy surrounding the device known as S-1 was so pervasive that a hush quickly fell over the room and exploration of the options was inhibited. When Japan was issued a warning from Potsdam a month later, no explicit mention was made of either the Bomb or the Emperor. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the Japanese government would treat the warning with "silent contempt." On the island of Tinian that day, a 300-lb. lead cylinder with a core of enriched uranium was being transferred to the headquarters of Colonel Paul Tibbets' 509th Composite Group...