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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1981
Sports
Players indicate they’ll stick
together on free agent issue
Will baseball survive
United Press International
NEW YORK — Major league
club owners, who have relied on
C. Raymond Grebey to state their
case at the bargaining table
throughout the worst labor crisis
in baseball history, will stick with
him in another arena today.
The owners, charged with un
fair labor practices, will call
Grebey, head of the owners’ Play
er Relations Committee, as their
only witness in a National Labor
Relations hearing, which resumes
at 9:30 a.m. EDT today. Attorneys
for the players have presented five
witnesses during the past two days
and will call one more to open the
session.
The players want the NLRB to
rule the owners have bargained in
bad faith by not opening financial
records.
With the walkout entering its
27th day, prospects of any major
movement by either the players or
the owners remained dim.
After a four-hour meeting with
Players Association Executive Di
rector Marvin Miller Tuesday
night, player representatives of
the 26 teams indicated they were
prepared to sit out the entire sea
son rather than give in to the own
ers on the free-agent compensa
tion issue.
If anything, the players seem to
be getting more militant.
Although Miller said some players
were beginning to feel a financial
pinch, he said there had been no
dissenting votes over the way the
Players Association was handling
negotiations and the representa
tives unanimously had rejected
the owners’ latest proposal, which
calls for direct major league com
pensation from the club signing a
ranking free agent.
“There are some younger play
ers with financial problems,’’ Mil
ler said, “But they have sent the
word, hold tight.’
And Phil Niekro, player repre
sentative of the Atlanta Braves,
added, “They (his teammates)
have said if it takes sitting out the
year, they’d sit it out. We re very
united on the point of compensa
tion.’’
Miller also said the players de
manded that any settlement
reached must stipulate that the
time they have spent on strike be
included in their time of service
toward pensions.
Entering the NLRB hearing
earlier, Grebey, was asked if any
new owners’ proposal would come
out of a scheduled Thursday-night
meeting. He replied: “Definitely
not, because the owners have no
right to do so. The PRC is the only
one to do so.”
Grebey insisted the meeting
had no special importance other
than to keep the owners informed.
Testimony from Baseball Com
missioner Bowie Kuhn, whose
public statements on baseball’s
financial plight led to player de
mands that owners open their
books, highlighted Tuesday’s
hearing.
Kuhn testified he was speaking
on his own when he said at the
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cember 1980 several clubs had
suffered millions of dollars in los
ses during the 1979 season.
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have claimed teams were suffering
losses because of an unrestrictive
free-agency system.
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Pittsburgh draft choice
signs with Montreal
United Press International
MONTREAL — Continuing
their raid on the National Football
League, the Montreal Alouettes of
the Canadian Football League
Tuesday signed the Pittsburgh
Steelers’ top draft choice, defen
sive lineman Keith Gary of Okla
homa.
Gary brings the number of
American stars added to the
Alouettes’ stable this season to
five. Earlier they signed Gary’s
Oklahoma teammate David Over-
street, a Miami Dolphins first-
round pick; former Los Angeles
Rams quarterback Vince Ferra-
gamo; former Houston Oilers
wide receiver Billy (White Shoes)
Johnson; and former Chicago
Bears wide receiver James Scott.
“I guess I made the right choice
because I’m happy I’m here,”
Gary said at a news conference
Tuesday night after he had signed
his contract with the Alouettes.
“I’m glad to come to a team that
appreciates my talents.”
Bill Putnam, the Alouettes’ ex
ecutive vice president, said Gary
had signed a one-year contract
with an option year. He did not
disclose terms of the contract, but
both Gary and his agent said the
two-year package was worth more
than the Steelers had offered for
four years and an option year.
In an interview on a Pittsburgh
radio show, agent Jerry Argovitz
said the contract was guaranteed,
and, when asked specifically if it
would be fair to say the contract
was worth in the neighborhood of
a half-million dollars, Argovitz
said “yes.”
It was reported the Steelers had
offered Gary a signing bonus of
$150,000 and a base salary of less
than $100,000.
Steelers president Dan Rooney
said the team was “disappointed”
but had no regrets about its side of
the negotiations with Gary.
“We were never really close on
the negotiations,” Rooney said.
“We carried on the negotiations in
what we felt was a proper way. We
never quit on the negotiations.”
Gary, 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds,
termed the Steelers’ offer “very
displeasing” but said he had not
considered opting for the Alouet
tes until last week.
“The idea surfaced months ago,
but only because if the negotia
tions with Pittsburgh weren’t
going to work out I bad to have
something to fall back on,” Gary
said. “The money situation here in
two years is better than it was in
Pittsburgh for five.
The 1984 All-Star game has just
started and Pete Rose has already
broken Musial’s record and gone
home.
Following Rose’s exit, though,
you realize that the excitement of
this game is all but over. But,
there is still a chance something
might happen. Since the future of
baseball will be determined by
this game, (whether or not people
will respond favorably to the re
sumption of baseball) you sincere
ly hope something does.
The game goes several innings
and nothing happens — absolute
ly nothing. Each inning has lasted
an average of 1V2 hours because of
the sloppiness of play. Wild pitch
after wild pitch starts to bore you
and your mind starts wandering,
again.
You begin to wonder what the
world would be like without base
ball. After this game you wonder
what it would be like with base
ball. You think back to the first
year of the strike when thousands
of fans turned to Japanese baseball
for entertainment. But, you re
member how quickly Japan closed
its doors to foreign entertainment.
Rumors had it that it was because
the Japanese resented American
hot dogs. You know better
though. It was the American fan
and the way he took Japan by
storm.
Your mind begins to wander
aimlessly back to the days when
America was red, white and blue
and baseball was the national pas
time. You think of grandma, apple
pie and Chevrolet. All of a sudden
you get a tremendous feeling of
national unity — something you
haven’t experienced since the
days of the Iranian hostage crisis.
But, looking hack toward the
diamond you return to reality. If
this game fails, the entire game of
baseball as you know it faces ex
tinction.
By the looks of things baseball
doesn’t have much of a future.
It’s now the bottom of the sixth
and the American League is bat
ting. The National League has
already been through its entire
bullpen and has yet to find a pitch
er that will last more than a few
pitches. It seems some of the play
ers neglected to keep in shape.
Beginning to sense the bore
dom of the game again you think
about how the players survived
the three year strike. The big
name players had no problems
with the money they earned from
light beer commercials, even
though beer sales steadily drop
ped. But what about the “average”
players.?
You had heard some of them
had sold their belongings and left
for Europe to start an entirely new
league, the European
League. A league withoutS u
and supported entirely [IBELFAST,
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without this game called
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NEW YORK — Perhaps it is
fitting Sugar Ray Leonard and
Thomas Hearns are staging their
welterweight showdown in Las
Vegas, Nev. After all, what other
city on earth can better show off
two such high rollers?
Leonard and Hearns made it
official Tuesday at a midtown
press conference — they will m^et
for the unofficial world welter
weight championship at Caesars
Palace in Las Vegas on Sept. 16 in
what probably will be the richest
fight in boxing history.
To avoid problems with the riv
al WBC and the WBA and sanc
tioning fees which could run over
$500,000, the promoters have
written the contract to read the
fighters will meet in a 15-round
welterweight fight, with no men
tion of title.
“The public will know the win
ner of this fight will be the true
champion,” said Emanuel Ste
ward, Hearns’ trainer. “It doesn’t
need to be written in the contract.
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fight.”
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Caesars Palace will construct a
25,000-seat arena on the hotel
grounds for the bout, which is ex
pected to gross about $40 million
and could go as high as $52 mil
lion. The previous high is approxi
mately $30 million for the Larry
Holmes-Muhammad Ali WBC
heavyweight title fight last Octo
ber, also at Caesars Palace.
The fight will be promoted by
Main Event Productions, which is
based in the New York-New
Jersey area. It is headed by Shelly
Finkel, who has been a key figure
in major rock promotions, and
Dan Duva, who heads a highly
successful boxing operation in the
northern New Jersey area.
For Hearns, the devastating
puncher from Detroit, the Sept.
16 fight will end a long vigil.
“I’m happy the fight is going
off,” said Hearns. T’ve been wait
ing a long time fo
this — two and a half years. I have
a lot of respect for Ray as a fighter.
He’s definitely no pushover. He
deserves respect.”
Hearns then turned to Leonard:
“Ray, you have been ducking
me for a long time, ” he said, point
ing a finger. “Your time has come.
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