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...this newsstand decided to sell The News for almost a month before being convinced by the Newspaper Guild of New York to refuse this "scabloid." Our father, Joel Burstein, a lifelong newspaperman in New York using the name Joel Burton, worked at The News from 1966 until the management lockout began on October 25, 1990. On November 2, 1990, the eighth day of the lockout, he collapsed and died of a cardiac arrest at the Guild office in New York...
This year has offered plenty of thrills, some of them actually on the field. Fans who swore they would never forgive players for the lockout delay of Opening Day have since misplaced their rancor and delighted in the annual spectacle of stars born and reborn. Cecil Fielder, exiled to Japan last year, signs with Detroit and threatens to become the first American Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit...
...NOTEBOOK:After the monthlong lockout delayed openers by a week, the start of the season was pushed back an extra 18 minutes because of pregame festivities. Toni Giamatti, widow of former commissioner Bart Giamatti, threw out the ceremonial first ball...
Morris, who pitched a total of seven innings in the lockout-abbreviated spring training, gave up five runs on seven hits in six and two-thirds innings. He struck out three and walked three in his 11th consecutive opening day start...
Prudent or not, the huge amounts being ponied up by TV are changing the economics of pro sports. Major-league baseball's billion-dollar TV pact is an unspoken issue looming behind the current baseball lockout. "The television revenue isn't being produced by the owners," says Donald Fehr, head of the players' union. "It's being produced by the players. The lion's share of the television money ought to go to the players." With the N.F.L.'s just completed TV deal, clubs will be making money even before they sell a single admission ticket. "The rights fees fueled...