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Telecasting and broadcasting of major-league baseball games are ruining the minors and will thus inevitably damage the majors, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick told U.S. Senators last week. Facts & figures from the Frick argument before a Senate interstate commerce subcommittee: total minor-league attendance last year was 16 million less than in 1949; only 19 of 273 minor-league teams made money in 1952. Frick's pitch to the Senators: give organized baseball the power it used to have-before Harry Truman's Department of Justice threatened antitrust suits-to restrict the broadcasting and televising of big-league...
...this ostrich policy can't go on forever. Some issues will have to be met squarely and publicly. For one thing, Commissioner Ford Frick will have to rule on the propriety of having a college team put smack into a major league farm system. Will this violate the restrictions on dealing with amateurs? What minor league classification will Harvard be put into? Will Harvard players be subject to the annual player draft? Can the Cards send us players on option? Can they step in and shuffle the team's personnel if they aren't satisfied with its performance...
Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick has the power to bar anyone from the game for acts "detrimental to baseball." But Saigh saved him the trouble. He agreed to turn control of the Cardinals over to a trustees' committee before starting his prison sentence...
Saigh reiterated his intention to sell the team by the May 5 deadline set by a Federal Court but reversed decision on an immediate sale pending, a conference with Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and National League President Warren Giles sometime this weekend...
...home in Uvalde and took to the hills of southwest Texas to celebrate his 84th birthday with a deer hunt. In Washington, Clark Griffith, owner-president of the Washington Senators, celebrated his 83rd birthday with some 180 friends and fans, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. Griffith's birthday wish: to see his team win another American League pennant (it has won three since he started as manager in 1912) before he retires...