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Steve Blavier, a manager for the Texas A&M football team, gives
Kyle Field its annual artificial turf facelift. Blavier is in the process
of painting all the yard-line stripes and numbers in preparation for
the report of the Aggies’ freshman recruits later in August.
Major Leaguers to 'Play ball'
Strike ends in less than a day
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The baseball strike ended Wednesday, 25 games down
and the pennant races to go.
“There was integrity on both sides,” Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
said in formally announcing a strike-ending contract, “and that’s why we
have an agreement today.”
“This agreement was done by Lee MacPhail and Don Fehr,” he said.
“They put baseball back on the field.”
Announcement, of a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract
ckme from the commissioner’s office at about 1:30 p.m., less than 24 hours
after baseball’s second midseason strike formally began.
Clubs were told immediately to prepare for business on Thursday, re
sulting in two lost days of games, 25 in all or a little more than 1 percent of
the season.
Some teams rapidly planned to make up the lost games. Scheduled as
Thursday double-headers were Baltimore at Toronto, Boston at Chicago,
Cleveland at New York, Detroit at Kansas City, and Milwaukee at Texas.
The agreement, coming after nearly nine months of negotiations but
crafted principally in the final 24 hours, provides concessions on both sides
— to the players in the form of increased pension money and to the owners
in the form of modifications in salary arbitration. .
Neither Don Fehr, acting head of the players association, nor Lee Mac
Phail, the owners’ chief bargainer, would immediately confirm the an
nouncement from Commissioner Peter Ueberroth’s office.
“The commissioner’s office can announce whatever it wants,” Fehr said.
“I’m not confirming it or denying it.”
However, Peter Bavasi, president of the Indians, said: “We’ve been told
to report for duty tomorrow.”
Scott McGregor, player representative for the Baltimore Orioles, said:
“They have come to an agreement. Now, it’s a matter of getting it down on
paper and getting it ratified. I’m ecstatic about it. It’s a big relief.”
Thirteen games Tuesday and 12 Wednesday were lost to the strike,
compared with the 712 games lost to a 50-day strike in 1981.
The contract reportedly was for five years, through the life of baseball’s
$1.1 billion network television deal. While terms of the agreement were not
announced, one team player rep, who asked not to be identified, said they
included:
• No cap on salary arbitration awards. Management had demanded a
100 percent cap on all arbitrator’s awards, meaning a player could no more
than double his salary. This issue had to be dropped before any settlement
could occur.
• A player must have three instead of two years’ service to file for arbi
tration. This w'as the major union concession to owners. The three-year
clause will not take effect until the third year of the contract, effectively
skipping all current major league players.
• The owners’ annual pension contribution will rise from $15.5 million
to an average of $32.7 million per year. The payment for 1985 will be $27
million, escalating each year of the contract until it reaches $37 million in
the final year. In addition, $14 million will be added to the 1984 contribu
tion retroactively. Players had asked for $60 million, and part of the differ
ence, about $20 million per year, will be redirected to financially troubled
clubs, resulting in baseball’s first venture into revenue sharing.
• The free-agent re-entry draft was eliminated, allowing a player to ne
gotiate with any team as soon as he becomes a free agent.
Snow actual reason for baseball strike
The latest baseball strike. You’ve
probably heard the usual, published
reasons for the strike. Well folks, I’m
here to tell you it’s a lie, a fake, a
sham, baseball’s biggest wooden
nickle.
The stories splashed across your
favorite newspapers tell of the base
ball owner’s wish to put a cap on sal
aries, to change the current arbitra
tion process and minimize their
contributions to the player’s pension
fund.
The player’s union counters that
they want to get a fair slice of the
television revenue pie and protect
their right to a earn what they want.
Well, just erase all that baseball
sludge from your brain because that
ain’t what caused the strike. When
this comes out, I have a feeling that
it may start a revolution.
Snow.
That’s right, snow is what this
whole mess is about. Not you’re ordi
nary, run-of-the-mill, All-American
variety, but a totally different strain
that flutters down from north of the
border.
ED CASSAVOY
Sports Writer
You see, this is a well-organized
plot by a single organization in base
ball to assure them of a World Series
victory.
The Toronto Blue Jays are the
culprits. These twisted geniuses have
worked it all out.
Currently the Jays are atop the
American League East and strong
contenders for the AL pennant. But,
see, they had to hedge. their bet.
Nothing is certain, especially when if
comes to the Jays, or baseball for
that matter.
So they work out this plan, see.
When the of World Series comes
around (with the Jays in it of course)
it will be October — in Toronto,
Canada.
Cold, but not cold enough for the
liking of the Blue Jays’ management.
Why not up the ante? Why not
trigger a short baseball strike in be
ginning of August that will help the
Jays’ quest?
So the strike ends within a couple
of days, the schedule is rearranged
to make up for the lost games and
the World Series is pushed back later
in October. x
The words ‘later in October’ are
music to the ears of those northern
crows, I mean Jays.
Now the the ice will be a uniform
12 inches on top of the artificial turf
of Exhibition Stadium, perched con
veniently on the edge of Lake Onta
rio.
Convenient for the Jays, that is.
Ah, I almost can see it, the fans
huddled miserably in blankets, try
ing to duck most of that icy Arctic
air, whistling off the lake.
The poor Los Angeles “Doggers”
trying to layer their suntan lotion
thicker on their exposed skin to
serve as an insulator. What a beauti
fully horrible sight.
ABC camera men, perched with
minicams on the flag poles, welded
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solid to their icy video stations.
And the sad sack “Doggers” flop
ping and sliding their way to World
Series obliviation. Baseball turns into
“Iceball.”
The Jays on the other hand, glide
to a Toronto sweep on their Lang ice
skates, generously donated by the
Toronto Maple Leafs.
In the day’s where the other fool
ish players sat around the pool get
ting fat and lazy, the lean mean Blue
Jays were practicing their skating
skills at a secret location in Iceland.
They told those dumb Icelanders
that it was a new NATO exercise, so
they were left alone.
So it went, bunting, stealing bases,
sharpening skates and treating frost
bite. But everyone knew it would pay
off.
And Ceissavoy predicts it will.
But I’d like to see it come about
for another reason. Just imagine the
scene when the chant goes up ‘Slide,
Garcia, slide!’ as he tries to beat the
throw to home plate.
Then I figure you’d really see who
wanted to win the baddest.
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