Word: ravitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things have time to settle now that the postseason is dead. Here's hoping Fehr and Ravitch get up the courage to meet with each other once in a while to pretend things are really happening on the negotiation front...
...really care about either side? Do Richard Ravitch and the owners actually come across as more appealing than Donald Fehr and the players...
...Although Ravitch steadfastly denies it, many in baseball speculate that the owners' negotiating goal is to eliminate the hated arbitration system rather than to mandate a salary cap. (The union clings to the unrealistic stance that all players with two years in the majors should qualify for arbitration...
...hours leading up to the player strike, several owners of wealthy teams pointedly dissented from Ravitch's salary-cap proposal. "It's all dollars, knowing what it's going to cost to play ball," said Jerry McMorris, who owns the Colorado Rockies, a hugely popular expansion team. "I don't think that a salary cap is necessary." Other mavericks included the ever surprising George Steinbrenner and Peter Angelos, new owner of the Orioles. But an insider close to the owners cautioned, "Nothing heavy is going on. I don't think people will follow Steinbrenner or Angelos either." Still, Angelos deserves...
...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; for the new opening day, the owners slated doubleheaders on a pay-what...