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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1980
May 22 is regular season showdown
Baseballers strike exhibition games
United Press International
DALLAS — The Baseball Players
Association voted Tuesday to strike
the remainder of the exhibition sea
son, but agreed to play the first six
weeks of the regular campaign in
hopes of settling a contract dispute
with club owners.
An ultimate strike deadline was
set for May 22.
Marvin Miller, director of the
players union, said the players were
showing “one last hope” that the
owners would enter into meaningful
negotiating sessions.
“To this point,” said Miller, “they
have not.”
The 1980 season will thus begin on
time next week, but in the following
weeks — if no agreement is reached
on a basic players contract—tension
will again build toward a showdown
between almost 1,000 major
leaguers and the men who pay their
salaries.
“If we don’t have an agreement by
May 22,” said Larry Bowa of the Phi
ladelphia Phillies, “we’re gone. It
won’t make any difference if a guy is
batting .040 or .840, he will strike.
“The players came to this meeting
in an angry mood. But we want to
think about the fans as much as they
can. That’s one reason we are going
DIETING?
to open the season on time.”
Although the players voted not to
compete in the final week of the ex
hibition season, they said they would
be willing to continue workouts at
their respective training sites.
“I think it would be in the best
interests of the owners to let us work
out,” said Minnesota’s Mike Mar
shall. “If you owned a club you would
want it to get off to the best start
possible and you probably wouldn’t
do that if you had missed the final
week of spring training.”
The players decision was reached
in a two-hour meeting which had
opened with many of the major
league clubs wanting to strike im
mediately.
“Now, ” said Texas Ranger pitcher
Jon Matlack, “I have to go back to my
ball club and do a selling job. There
was occasional concern expressed
that by delaying a strike until after
the season started there might be a
loss of solidarity.
“But everytime somebody said
something like that it was argued
down. The feeling was that by doing
it this way we would get a few
paychecks in our pocket. I don’t
know if that will help solidarity, but
it will keep players out of the bread
lines.”
Miller prefaced his announcement
by reciting a brief history of the con
tract negotiations from a players
standpoint. He said the negotiations
had accomplished nothing toward a
settlement.
The chief barrier toward a settle
ment concerns compensation of a
major league club for the loss of a
player to free agentry. Teams cur
rently are allowed to acquire a draft
pick from the club that eventually
signs one of its players lost through
the free agent route.
“The owners called in a federal
mediator (last week) and we met with
him in Palm Springs,” said Miller.
“Usually when you call in a mediator
you have new proposals you want to
put on the table. But all they did was
waste our time. There were no new
proposals at all. I have never seen
anything like it my life.”
When asked why he thought the
owners would negotiate now when
they have not been able to reach a
settlement during the past year, Mil
ler said:
“I hope that some of the more sen
sible owners will play more of a role
than they have to this point.”
Miller insisted the decision to
postpone a would-be strike until
May was not a sign of weakness.
“The players want to demonstrate
a show of good faith,” said Miller.
“But they have made it clear that if
there is a continuation of the lack of
effort on the part of the owners they
will strike.”
Before the meeting opened Miller
said the owners had established a
strike fund with which they had pur
chased insurance in case a large por
tion of the season is wiped out.
Miller said insurance had been
taken out with Lloyds of London.
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proposal may no longer be a popular
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The USOC reported Monday 80
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