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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday August 7, 1985 §H iPORTS It’s official; Major leaguers on strike Associated Press NEW YORK — The strike is on. For the second time in four years, major league baseball players went on strike in mid-season Tuesday when the clock ran out on a last-min ute effort to settle a dispute over sal ary structure. “We are on strike,” union lawyer Gene Orza said Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after 7 p.m., the American and National leagues announced that all 13 games on Tuesday night’s program had been called off because of the strike. Officials said there was no immediate word on when or if the games would be made up. The announcement came a half- hour after union chief Don Fehr, management negotiator Lee Mac- Phail and their aides resumed bar gaining af ter reportedly coming dra matically close to a settlement earlier in the day. The stumbling block, both sides said, was salary arbitration, with the union seeking to hold on to the sys tem it has had for the last decade and the owners seeking to change it by limiting eligibility or putting a cap on salary awards. Both sides were standing firm on their positions. Pension funding was also on the table, although it seemed to be an is sue that would soon be resolved. A day before, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth had pleaded with the two sides to return to the bar gaining table at a time when it looked as if a strike was inevitable. By Tuesday night, most signs pointed toward a brief strike. “I have every hope and indication it may be over. I’m very encour aged.” said Houston Astros General Manager A1 Rosen. “It has been in dicated- to me by the people in New York that they are very close to set tling it.” Fehr was more cautious. “I can’t say I expect anything posi tive can come out of it to end the strike quickly,” Fehr said. “We’re going to explore new ways to solve the major issues. The major issue, as you might expect, is the salary arbi tration-slash-salary cap issue. “Discussions are continuing. We’re now in a strike situation. The object now is to find a way to end it as fast as we can.” John McMullen, owners of the Houston Astros and a member of the Player Relations Committee’s ex ecutive board, said “We’re making movement” on the issue of the own ers’ contribution to the pension fund, but he said “No, no way.” when asked if the owners would compromise on their stances for a salary cap or a tougher salary arbi tration clause. And San Diego Padres president Ballard Smith said management was prepared “to lose the rest of the sea son” if it had to to protect its posi tion. “We’re looking at this in the long range, not the snort range,” Smith said. Even before they resumed at night, Tuesday’s negotiations were the longest since the strike deadline was set three weeks ago, and sources said they had hoped a settlement might be possible in time to salvage the season uninterrupted. If so, they simply ran out of time. Ueberroth had pleaded with the players and owners to use “the last ounce of everyone’s energy” to try to resolve the impasse. The session was described as “very informal” at the beginning, but the two sides apparently found some thing to talk about. They stayed in the meeting for more than six hours and, at one point, a player represen tative who had been in touch with union headquarters said it had turned into a “serious negotiating session.” The issue that time was free agency — the ability of a player to sell his service to the highest bidder. It was a right the players won in court, in ruling striking down base ball’s reserve clause that bound a player to one team unless he was cut, traded or sold. This time, the key again is a single issue — salary arbitration. It started in 1974, and the owners say its has helped salaries snowball to this sea son’s average of $363,000 a player. One source, who spoke on the condition he not be identified, said the two sides were “honing in on a pension mechanism” Tuesday but salary arbitration remained to be re solved. Among possibilities being dis cussed, the source said, was a grad uated minimum salary for second- and third-year players, with excep tions as suggested by Ueberroth last week for “superstars,” including players winning Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year or Cy Young Award honors. MacPhail has said projections show baseball will lose $86 million by 1988 and that changes are necessary to get the industry hack to a break even point. Rangers' Valentine worried over walkout Associated Press ARLINGTON — Texas Rangers Manager Bobby Valentine said T uesday that the best scenario for the baseball strike would be playing two games Wednesday night against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Rangers, along with the rest of the major leagues, were idled Tuesday when contract talks broke down between the owners and the players association. Texas had been scheduled to open a three-game se ries against the Brewers at Arlington Stadium. 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