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This was to be the year baseball got back on its feet. On Oct. 24, during a stirring World Series between the game's two highest-profile teams, capping a season of records and emotional stories, player's union head Donald Fehr and management negotiator Randy Levine shook hands on a deal that was to resolve the issues that caused the 1994 strike and set the league on a smooth course into the next century. The trouble was past, and even the bitterest fans could look forward to next season without trepidation. Apparently, no one told the owners. Owners...
There were a few horrible days during the past nine months when I forgot about the Red Sox. I tried to keep their memory alive by wearing the team cap almost every day, but words like "Fehr," and "Harrington" (and even "thesis") made me forget. But Wednesday, all I thought of was the Red Sox as I watched them pummel the evil Twins and start their triumphant march to the World Series...
...this situation? I've always been optimistic, but I'll just have to wait and see." Actually, it really was Chris Sabo. And former World Series mvp Dave Stewart. And Bobby Witt, Mariano Duncan, Randy Velarde . . . The players, 28 in all, nearly outnumbered the fans. Welcome, gentlemen, to Camp Fehr. Welcome to Baseball...
...National Labor Relations Board, forcing the owners to return to the work rules of the expired collective-bargaining agreement. So baseball was right back where it started last August, with the same old system in place and no sign of a new agreement. The distrust between union head Don Fehr and acting commissioner Bud Selig is still so vehement that they can't even agree on a mutual no-strike, no-lockout pledge for this season...
Baseball owners were hopeful today that they had found a way to end thestrikein time to get the players back in uniform by opening day, this Sunday. But tonight, players union chief Donald Fehr deflated hopes for a quick settlement, telling a press conference that while the owners had made some promising concessions, they were not yet substantial enough to bring the strike to an end. Late last night, owners proposed playing the 1995 season -- now scheduled to begin with replacement players -- under 1994 work rules, then levying a 50 percent "luxury tax" in 1996 on teams with payrolls over...