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...million a day in revenue per owner. In any case, the players had barely finished packing up their gloves and blow-dryers to head home last week when word filtered out that the strike was over. By Thursday, two days after the lights had gone out at ball parks across the country, the cracking bats and beery roar of major-league baseball again filled the muggy August air. Boston Bartender Michael Shain approved. "People don't want to read about contract and salary disputes in the sports section," said Shain, who manages the Batter's Box near Fenway Park...
...books to the players. An accountant hired by the owners promptly scaled back the losses originally claimed by the clubs from $43 million last year to $27 million. The players' accountants, meanwhile, insisted that the owners actually made $9 million, but hid their income from such sidelines as ball-park concessions...
...that the prices they paid to get into the game reflected their lucrative market potential. Nonetheless, in the bidding wars that are a fixture of baseball in the '80s, the wealthier owners can simply buy the better players. Since winning is the best way to draw fans to the park and sponsors to TV and radio, the poor just get poorer. The Cleveland Indians, for example, have managed to hold salaries down to less than half the league average, but they also are 34 games out of first place...
Seaver's lasting memory of their term as Reds teammates in the late '70s is of a doubleheader: "Pete had a terrible day, a miserable day, at third base. Leaving the park late after the second game, I heard the cracking of a bat and went back out on the field to see Russ Nixon [a coach then] hitting grounders to him at third. I watched from the shadows for a while. That's Pete to me." Knowing Rose's determination, some opponents marshal their best skills especially for him, and they are his favorites. "Do you know what [Houston...
...visiting dignitaries did step out from time to time. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, shod in Adidas, alighted from his silver sedan to jog in Central Park. He also stopped at Cohen's Fashion Optical to buy, using a credit card, $3,000 worth of eyeglasses for himself and his family. Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko rented two Amtrak club cars loaded with caviar and champagne to take his entourage of 50 people to Washington and back (cost: $9,800). Outside the U.N., West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had to be snatched from the path of an onrushing...