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...really care about either side? Do Richard Ravitch and the owners actually come across as more appealing than Donald Fehr and the players...
...record books, like Matt Williams, Frank Thomas and Tony Gwynn, the cancellation must have come as a cruel irony. Their chance at putting their names u on the mantle above most of their colleagues was destroyed by their willingness to get right in line behind negotiator Donald Fehr. These are the men that the owners are trying to fit for a salary cap, but they are the players who keep the game alive...
Trying to crack a defensive shell is about as exciting and frustrating for the Crimson as it is for anyone to listen to Donald Fehr talk about the future of baseball...
...owners and players became locked in unyielding stances that made protracted trench warfare inevitable. The few bargaining sessions that were held before the strike quickly degenerated into formulaic speeches and sarcastic byplay, all accentuated by the growing animosity between the voluble, chain-smoking Ravitch and the intense, almost humorless Fehr. "Did you see how unpleasant he is?" Ravitch asked rhetorically about Fehr before a joint TV appearance Friday. "It's never been like that in all the negotiations I've been involved in." If the season were to end without a contract, the owners would retain powerful weapons in their...
...Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had ruled the sport with an iron fist in the '20s and '30s. Young Landis convened the warring parties in the Who-Needs- a-Commissioner's Office in Manhattan and presented each with a baseball cap full of paper slips. For the players, Donald Fehr drew a slip reading "No Salary Arbitration." For the owners, Richard Ravitch pulled out a note saying "This is the only cap you get," thus dispensing with the proposed salary ceiling. The season resumed the following day. The players agreed to make up the games lost during the strike...