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NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth said
Tuesday he was rejecting a second
five-year term offered by owners but
would extend his contract through
the labor negotiations in 1990 if nec
essary.
Ueberroth, who had said he didn’t
think he had enough votes for an
other term, was offered the new
term last week but turned it down.
gotiations for a new collective bar
gaining agreement, a new national
television contract and expansion
plans.
term was unanimous, accon
Minnesota Twins owner Carl
lad.
He said he told owners at the
meeting in San Francisco that he
would remain in office for a tran
sition period and said he decided
Tuesday that it would last no more
than one year beyond the end of his
current contract on Dec. 31, 1989.
“The owners came back to me and
talked about a second term,” Ueber
roth said. “I was suprised. I was
pleased. I was thankful. But I told
them I would not accept.”
He said he will not seek political
office as has often been rumored.
“In this way, my successor will
have plans and agreements for the
1990s with which he could live,” Ue
berroth said. “I didn’t think it would
be fair to the owners and my succes
sor to allow the institution to suffer
from the situation in which I found
it upon taking office in 1984.”
According to Ueberroth,Slid
were losing money when hem
lice. He said Tuesday that 221,!
made money or broke evening
The Associated Press reported
Monday that Ueberroth had agreed
to stay on through the 1990 labor
negotiatons.
Ueberroth, 50, succeeded |j
Kuhn and became baseballs j
commissioner on Oct. 1, HM
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Owners were concerned that Ue
berroth would leave only months be
fore a possible players’ strike. Base
ball’s collective bargaining
agreement expires the same day as
Ueberroth’s contract and baseball’s
network television contracts end af
ter the 1989 season.
“I have no entry point into poli
tics,” Ueberroth said. “I’ve passed up
opportunities. I’m a little too brash,
a little too blunt. But I run things
well. I’ll find something to run.”
Ueberroth said he would partici
pate in the selection of his successor
and said he and the new commis
sioner both would be involved in ne-
“The important thing is that the
commissioner has agreed to stay on,
Seattle Mariners owner George Ar-
gyros said. “You have to recognize
that Peter’s done a wonderf ul job as
commissioner.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Martin versus the um- “Billy will be singled out,” Phillips said Mor:
pires. So what else is new? night. “He will be treated differently because ht
In this case, it is the umpires who are challenging treated umpires differendy than any other manage
Martin, and the New York Yankees’ manager, his vow “Rule 9.02 (a) says that any judgment call bv an.
of abstinence having expired, is ready to take them on. pire is final and cannot be argued. If he comes*
Martin said his promise to stay in the dugout and not argue, he will be ejected. In the past, umpires have;
argue was good for only one game. discretion with all managers. They will not exercise
True to his word, Martin did not leave the dugout cretion on Billy’s behalf. . . If Billy persists in arg;.
Monday night during the Yankees’ 3-2 loss to the Bos- he’ll be ejected from the game.”
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time I want to go out, I will go out on the field and I will
argue and do everything a manager is supposed to do. I
defy Richie Phillips to stop me.”
Phillips, head of the umpires’ union, said Martin is
not like any other manager and will not be treated as that the umpires would take act ion on their own
one.
Martin was suspended for three games and fiE I
$1,000 by American League President Bobby Bro
for throwing dirt on umpire Dale Scott on May51
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
owner of a downtown bookstore said
Tuesday that charging $10 for a Wil
lie Mays autograph during a book
signing session was a mistake.
Robert Haft, president of Crown
Books, said he wasn’t quite sure how
the Hall of Fame outfielder came to
be collecting money while auto
graphing copies of his new book,
“Say Hey: The Autobiography of
Willie Mays.”
“I think what happened is he had
signed about 700 books in our
store,” said Haft of the incident
which took place May 20. “Some
people apparently came in with
baseballs and gloves and they
wanted him to sign.
“It’s unclear who said it,” said
Haft, “but somebody said he’ll sign
for $10, and people started putting
down money on the table there.”
Mays, when contacted by the As
sociated Press, said he was tired of
talking about the incident and com
plained that reports about it didn’t
seem to get the story straight.
But in Tuesday’s editions of the
New York Post, Mays was quoted as
saying, “I didn’t take a dime. Every
thing went to the bookstore.”
Mays, 57, said he was working for
“Fm still trying to vindi
cate myself. ”
— Baseball Hall of Famer
Willie Mays
icy, he said. “We’ve never li
signing where an author etii
money. Had we known, we*
not have allowed it.”
the publisher, Simon & Schuster,
and was there to sign only books.
“They tell you when the books
run out, you get up and walk out,”
Mays told the Post. “But when the
books ran out, there were about 50
to 100 people still in line.
“Rather than leave the people
hanging there, I said, ‘Give the
bookstore $10 and I’ll sign whatever
you have.’
“I thought I was doing something
right. I thought I was helping every
body there.”
Mays said the store’s president
was standing next to him.
“All he had to do was tap me on
the shoulder and say ‘Willie, we
wouldn’t like you to do that.’ ”
Haft said Crown’s policy is not to
pay authors for promotional appear
ances and not to charge for auto
graphs.
“It’s just totally against our pol-
But Haft said he found oui
that players do get paid to sign
letic paraphernalia in sports f
and said he thought that
have caused the mix-up.
Mays didn’t take any mono
him when he left the store,
said.
“I guess he realized it wasni
right thing to do,” said Haft,"
company owns a chain of 20:
count bookstores nationwide.
Crown employees gave i
hack to as many customers as
hie and donated the rest to the!
League. Haft said he didn't
how much money was collected
The incident came to
the upset mother of a
youngster who attended thel'
signing two weeks ago wrotealO
to The Washington Post. Intlit|
ter, published last Friday,
Vaughan said her ll-year-old
began crying when Mays asked
for money.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Most parents
believe sports are as important for
their daughters as their sons, accord
ing to a national study released
Tuesday.
Eighty-seven percent of the par
ents surveyed said they agreed that
“sports are equally important for
boys and girls.”
“It shows the word ‘tomboy’ no
longer exists in the athletic diction
ary,” said Dorothy Harris, education
director of the Women’s Sports
Foundation, which commissioned
the study.
“Girls who participate in sports
are no longer laughed at and ridi
culed,” she said. “In fact, it’s popular
for girls to play sports. It’s the sexy
thing to do.”
in sports, the figure dropped to 75
percent in the 15-to-18 group.
According to the study, the drop
off is primarily due to interest in
other activities, lack of time, or inter
est in boys. Many black girls cited ad
ditional reasons for quitting sports,
including transportation problems
and inadequate funds to pay for
equipment and lessons.
Many girls stop participating in
sports during their mid-teens, the
study shows.
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— Girls whose parents 8% U g USt; j
volved in sports are more li' a ( h em ic;
participate themselves. supports
— While most parentsbelif u {j rar y to e
ter health is the best reason fc 1 ! l> ow, h
daughters to play sports, girls' p av f or ,|
biggest motivator is “fun. settlemen
— Girls participating in sp°| “There
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their mothers than fathers, has
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“The puberty barrier appears to
exist,” said Harris, a professor of
exercise and sport science at Penn
State University. “When girls be
come more interested in boys, they
tend to become less interested in
However, the study indicates that
girls tend to drop out of sports as
they get older.
While 87 percent of those in the 7-
to-10 age group said they participate
sports.
The
survey was based on tele
phone interviews last November and
December with 1,004 parents and
513 of their 7-to-18 year-old daugh
ters. It was co-sponsored by the Wil
son Sporting Goods Co.
rector of the Women’s Sport: happy th:
dation, said attitudes abowlBHe sai
participation in sports W, dement a
change in 1972 when ^■“We dt
passed a law guaranteeing jujst so w
equal educational opportunit' “jj^ p, ec
The Title IX legislation sp al ' preferabl
dramatic increase in gin 5 ] Relfon
school teams and colleg c dement,
arships for female athletes, thought \
The foundation, establi 5 ■‘T hey
1974, is a non-profit, ediir :lt " ter-offers
ganization that encourage 5 1 concessio
to participate in sports.