A's owner Charlie Finley wanted this pitcher to change his first name to "True"
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Vida Blue Baseball Stats, facts, biography, images and video. | The ...  He had his first wrangle with A's owner Charles O. Finley right away, when Finley wanted Blue to change his first name to "True." He was called ... Rumors flew that he'd hurt his arm by pitching without spring training and reporting overweight.
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40th anniversary: Vida Blue's holdout  The Hardball Times  Mar 16, 2012 ... That year Vida Blue had the sort of season most pitchers  even most great ... As often happened, the owner won the fight. ... He ordered Blue to issue a public apology to A's fans for his holdout, and Blue .... Wasn't a part of the holdout the fact that Finley wanted him to legally change his first name to True?
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Fifty years ago, Satchel Paige pitched his last big-league game in ...  Sep 18, 2015 ... The night Satchel Paige pitched his final big-league innings against Yaz and the Red Sox. ... When the old place was finally abandoned  first when the A's left for ... This was another publicity stunt by A's owner Charlie Finley. .... and it was true in 1965 when Finley asked if he could pitch three innings.
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The Baseball Analysts: Brown: Ode to the Crazy Maverick, Finley  Dec 29, 2005 ... I think he wanted Blue to change his first name from Vida to True. .... late A's owner Charles O. Finley's efforts to get his pitcher to legally change...
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The Reign of Finley - Athletics Nation  Aug 1, 2013 ... I was in high school when Charlie Finley first came to town but, frankly, .... Later on, Finley upset both his players and the other owners by ... After just a few seasons in Oakland, Finley again wanted to bolt. .... 4) The Coliseum was always better suited for football than baseball and now that is even more true.
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29 days until Spring Training: The A's have added even more of ...  Jan 20, 2016 ... Thanks to the films starring Rex Harrison and Eddie Murphy, "Doolittle" is an amusing last name in its own right. But it becomes even more...
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Willie Mays - Wikipedia  Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid", is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) ... He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility. Mays won two National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, ended his career with 660 home runs...
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Simple gestures mean so much in baseball - LA Times  Jul 1, 2013 ... Angels third base coach Dino Ebel gives signs to baserunners during ... In the Angels' dugout, Manager Mike Scioscia taps his nose, the bill of ... Opponents will try to crack a team's code, so pitchers and catchers change up their signs. ... go if there is a runner at third and a runner at first tries to steal second...
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Bonilla Chooses the Mets : Baseball: He becomes highest paid in ...  Dec 3, 1991 ... Bonilla became the game's highest-paid player late Monday, when he agreed ... when he agreed to a five-year contract with the Mets guaranteed to pay him $29 million. ... he signed a five-year, $23.5-million deal with the Oakland Athletics. ... Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens by the Boston Red Sox.
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The Myth of the Home Run That Drove an Angels Pitcher to Suicide ...  Oct 27, 2011 ... There are stories we like to tell ourselves about sports. ... Pushed to the background by these ceremonies of forgiveness has been a much darker ... It is the story of Donnie Moore, a pitcher for the California Angels who, unable to ... 21 games, and the Angels became one of those teams that simply clicked.
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Mickey Mantle | Society for American Baseball Research  If you can help us improve this player's biography, contact us. ... was that Cochrane's actual first name was Gordon, and Mickey was just a nickname. ... 4 Mickey and his father were both stunned at first, but soon became excited ..... Mickey Mantle and Herb Gluck, The Mick: An American Hero (New York: Jove Books, 1985).
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J! Archive - Show #4199, aired 2002-11-28  SO GREAT THEY NEED 2 NICKNAMES ... The Baseball Encyclopedia lists his nicknames as "The Franchise" & "Tom Terrific"...
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Mark Fidrych, former Detroit Tigers All-Star pitcher, dead at 54  Apr 14, 2009 ... Former All-Star pitcher Mark "The Bird" Fidrych has been found dead in ... He acquired the nickname "the Bird" because of his resemblance to the ... talk to the baseball and slap high-fives with teammates in the middle of the diamond. "People that didn't know him might say he was weird," Amorello said, "but...
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Turner Aims To Stop Dodgers Sale | The Spokesman-Review  Mar 18, 1998 ... After a meeting of baseball's ruling executive council ended ... Ted Turner, who has fought Rupert Murdoch and likened the practices of his rival to those of Adolf Hitler, intends to attend his first baseball meeting in years to thwart the sale ... a baseball owners' meeting since March 1989, one baseball official...
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Timeline | Los Angeles Angels  See a timeline of all the important events in Los Angeles Angels history since 1961. ... Moved to Dodger Stadium and remained there through the 1965 season. ... at Dodger Stadium, the Angels christened Anaheim Stadium April 9, 1966, with ... Alex Johnson became the first (and only) Angel ever to win a batting title when...
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Rube Waddell vs. Cy Young | Philadelphia Athletics  Jan 6, 2006 ... ... in 1901, and the A's and Americans won four of the first five pennants) matching up in the city of Paul Revere on our nation's birthday.
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Awakenings: A 'Bat' of a Man  Apr 16, 2016 ... Of course, this is not a given name but an earned nickname as will ... Meet William Barclay "Bat" Masterson, baptized as Bartholomew Masterson, who was a prominent lawman, ... It was simply a shortened version of a really long name! ... lawman and gunfighter Bat Masterson fights the last gun battle of his...
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Owners Approve Sale of Dodgers to Murdoch - latimes  Mar 20, 1998 ... Transfer of ownership to Fox Group ends O'Malley family dynasty, the oldest in baseball. ... the purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers by Rupert Murdoch's Fox ... war with Murdoch and who was attending his first owners meeting in nine ... He left the meeting by a back door immediately after Thursday's vote,...
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Reggie Jackson - Wikipedia  Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional ... Jackson hit 563 career home runs and was an American League (AL) All-Star .... their first title of any kind since 1931, when they played in Philadelphia. ..... In 1987, he signed a one-year contract to return to the A's, wearing the...
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Throneberry Fields Forever | . . . a calm review of baseball by Jeff ...  It makes you wonder how they managedwhen renovating a stadium that just so ..... b) that a baseball team is no more an independent, autonomous property than is a ..... Miller HugginsThe field commander of the first Yankee dynasty was ... The Mighty Mite took over the also-ran Yankees in 1918 and improved the team...
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More Than That One Pitch - latimes  Jul 24, 2004 ... Eckersley, who gave up Gibson's '88 homer, makes Hall as the ... room, flicked a slider into the bleachers and slew the mighty Oakland Athletics. ... In 1977, he threw a no-hitter, against the Angels, for the Cleveland Indians. ... He won 149 games as a starter, pitching 100 complete games and 20 shutouts.