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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.
But Valentine, while hoping for a
quick settlement, indicated he was
worried about a lengthy walkout.
The worst possible development,
he said, would be “no more baseball
this year and perhaps next year.”
Barring a quick strike settlement,
Valentine said he would travel to
Tulsa, Okla., and Oklahoma City
and see the Rangers’ top minor
league farm clubs in action to “try to
prepare for the future.”
Valentine said he thought the
players “wanted to play.”
“The players aren’t angry, at least
yet,” he said. “I think when they’re at
a movie theater or watching tele
vision, they’ll begin to get angry and
that anger hopefully will manifest it
self into some line drives when they
get back onto the field.
“The players down to the reserve
catcher on every team feel that they
should be playing and that this thing
should be resolved soon.”
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