Word: ravitch
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Major league ballplayers appear ready to walk Friday, despite a daylong emergency bargaining session. "I believe we are closer to a strike than we were 24 hours ago," said owner representative Richard Ravitch. At issue: the owners want a salary cap, the players don't. No new sessions are on the agenda. BTW: There have been eight baseball strikes in the past 22 seasons, including a 50-day run in 1981. Each time, the owners caved...
Most fans believe the threat to the game is purely economic: in no other corner of America is the dictum so widely held that money is the root of all evil. Richard Ravitch, the labor negotiator for the owners, loudly claims that 18 teams lost money last year. What is certain is that 300 of the 700 players on big-league rosters this season will earn more than $1 million each. Barry Bonds, the National League's Most Valuable Player, deserted the Pittsburgh Pirates in the off-season for greener pastures -- a record $43.75 million, six-year contract with...
...real on-the-field question is rooted in the political structure of the game: Can baseball survive the growing imbalance between the rich clubs and their poor, small-market cousins? Ravitch is not far from the mark when he warns, "Baseball is getting like Latin America. We'll have rich and poor and no middle class." Already there are signs that the traditional strength of baseball, the competitiveness among rival teams, is in serious jeopardy...
These issues are prelude to the coming baseball labor negotiations -- a titanic clash in a sport that has already endured a season-crippling player strike (1981) and three owner lockouts (1972, 1976 and 1990). The owners, under the leadership of Ravitch, claim to be determined as never before. Their proposal, likely to be formally offered around the time of the World Series, combines the carrot of enhanced revenue-sharing among rich and poor clubs (currently the Yankees' local TV contract is worth 20 times as much as the Seattle Mariners') with the fearsome stick of team salary caps. The probable...
...when the G.I. bill made funding for higher education available to all returning soldiers. As universities expanded to handle the sudden influx, they developed the flexibility that has become one of the hallmarks of American higher learning. "In the U.S. there is a system of infinite chances," says Diane Ravitch, Assistant Secretary of Education. "At 35, you can decide to go back to college, upgrade your education, change your profession...