Sports
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1981
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United Press International
NEW YORK — Negotiators in the 49-
lay old baseball strike, fresh from caucus
Offend needing a quick settlement to salvage
)rtf f5 he season, are scheduled today to revive
^eptuhe talks that collapsed a week ago in
Vashington.
Jt «, j Marvin Miller, executive director of the
’layers Association, briefed some 70 play-
D-m rs of the progress of the talks at a Los
n ? c ingeles meeting and later said he would
filer no new proposals in the session called
edttny federal mediator Kenneth Moffett for 2
Tucffii.m. EDT in New York.
The owners, who held two meetings,
lokk: aid they plan to seek a settlement vigor-
usly but stressed they would need the
inuejooperation of the players,
itersat “It was a matter of everybody stating
/hat they felt,” said Lee MacPhail, presi-
ions lent of the American League and a mem-
ntm-ier of the owners’ negotiating team. “We
till have to reach an agreement with the
ther people, though, before the strike can
nd.’
The strike has forced the cancellation of
■j *.79 games, or 28 per cent of the season, and
I y aused the indefinite postponement of the
, dl-Star Game. Today originally was re-
erved as the rain date for the classic.
In the unlikely event a settlement is
reached soon, the players would need a
reconditioning period of about two weeks
before resuming regular play. At that rate,
the “stretch drive” would consist of about
six weeks.
Steve Garvey of Los Angeles said he
thought it would not be “fair to the fans” to
finish the 1981 season “if something doesn’t
happen within a period that would allow us
to get in 10 to 12 days practice and 100
games.”
Bobby Grich of California said he could
be ready to play on one week’s notice and
said he thought it would be worthwhile to
finish as little as two weeks of the season.
“I think any part of the season we can
salvage, it would be important to do that,’’
Grich said.
Owners of each league met for about
three hours at separate locations before
convening for their joint session, where
Player Relations Committee director Ray
Grebey brought them up to date on nego
tiations.
“The member clubs asked questions,”
said Ed Fitzgerald of Milwaukee. “We gave
the PRC all the helpful advice we could.
The consensus was we want to bring the
strike to a conclusion and the only way that
can be achieved is by collective bargaining.
We instructed the PRC to resume that pro
cess at the earliest possible time.”
Fitzgerald’s pointed reference to collec
tive bargaining appeared to rule out the
possibility the owners would submit the
issue to binding arbitration. Miller has said
the union, in the interest of resuming the
season, would go to arbitration.
As happened to the owners early this
month, the Players Association has been
plagued by voices of dissent. Miller,
however, attributed most of the dissent to
bad communication and said he has the
support of the players.
“The players got a full report of all the
developments in the negotiations,” Miller
said, “with particular emphasis on the last
two weeks. I never had any doubt about the
players’ support.”
Miller said he still plans to hold more
regional meetings — the next one is sche
duled for New York on Friday — to inform
the players about the status of the negotia
tions.
Miller also acknowledged that many
baseball fans are upset by the strike, but
said the walkout should be compared to
labor disputes by service workers.
“Fans are important,” he explained, “but
they are not more important than other
consumers. We’re all annoyed when we’re
inconvenienced, but that doesn’t give us
the right to dictate the terms of a contract. ”
The two big issues on the table are free-
agent compensation and accredited time
for players during the strike.
If the parties fail to reach an agreement
this week, the dispute could prove more
costly than merely ruining the season. For
mer Oakland A’s owner Charlie Finley
already has discussed the possibility of
starting a new major league, and the play
ers appear receptive.
An even wilder scenario has been raised
by Dick Moss, former general counsel for
the Players Association. Moss claims the
owners may have defaulted on their con
tracts with their wording of the June 12
announcement of a strike, thus setting all
650 players free on a technicality.
In addition, the Reagan administration
has discussed re-examining baseball’s ex
emption from anti-trust status. And still
pending are the results of the National
Labor Relations Board hearings into
alleged unfair labor practices by the
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blow it AKRON, Ohio — The New
-■ )rk Yankees are seeking $4.5
eon illion damages from Cessna Air-
iteaihaft Co. and Flight Safety Inter-
ttional, Inc., in the 1979 death of
eir All-Star catcher Thurman
rr v unson.
The baseball club filed the neg-
unl ;enct‘ suit Wednesday in Sum-
it County Commok Pleas Court,
•out four weeks after a similar
image claim was dismissed by a
deral judge.
ir , Munson, who lived in nearby
anton, died Aug. 2, 1979, when
s two-engine Cessna jet crashed
id burned at Akron-Canton Air-
)rt. He had been trained to fly
e plane by Flight Safety.
The Yankees’ suit said Cessna
id Flight Safety were negligent
111 training Munson “and said neg-
;ence prevented Munson from
aking a safe landing, and caused
ie jjj.e aircraft to crash.
i r “The defendants also were neg-
;ent in permitting and encourag-
g Munson to fly the aircraft
IDaltiOwing he did not have the re-
lisite training and instruction to
>erate the aircraft,” the suit said.
ellrecCThe suit also alleged Cessna
nic u%erted high-pressure sales tech-
ists ques and tactics to induce the
purchase of the aircraft by Mun
son” even though the firm knew
the Yankee captain was a “pilot of
very limited experience.”
The jet was a “highly sophisti
cated” plane that was not suitable
for use by a novice pilot such as
Munson, the baseball club
alleged.
The Yankees argued they
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damages because that would have
been the market value of Mun
son’s contract had the club de
cided to trade him.
U.S. District Court Judge
Leroy J. Contie Jr., in dismissing
the Yankees’ federal court suit
July 2, said the club was not enti
tled to compensation for the loss of
Munson’s services.
Still pending is a $42 million
suit filed against Cessna and
Flight Safety by Munson’s widow,
Diana, and the couple’s three chil
dren.
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