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Spring training starts tomorrow with replacement players pretending to be the real baseball teams, while the owners and players union engage in fantasies of their own. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee today, acting baseball commissioner Bud Selig admitted for the first time that the strike has hurt the teams financially. Though ticket sales and television and radio broadcasting rights for 1995 have plunged, Selig said the owners have no choice but to maintain their tough stance in negotiations. Many teams, he said, could not survive another season under the old contract. It remains to be seen how well they...
...broke into a spontaneous rendition of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Players Association officials reiterated the union's unshakable stance in support of free agency. Owners repeated their immutable demands for a salary cap. Players Association executive director Don Fehr and interim baseball commissioner Bud Selig competed in a frowning contest for the benefit of photographers. Newly appointed mediator Bill Usery Jr. made it clear that he understands intransigence when he sees it. "When you believe you have positions that are very strong, it's difficult," he said. Settle in for a long winter, fans...
Until the 35th day of the walkout, optimists and baseball sentimentalists wanted to believe compromise was possible. But their hopes were shattered by a four-paragraph resolution that interim commissioner Bud Selig released last week on behalf of the 28 owners of the major league clubs. Summary: season canceled, no play-offs and no World Series for the first time in 90 years...
Baseball's acting commissioner Bud Selig made the anticlimactic announcement: because of the 34-day players' strike, the remainder of the 1994 season, including -- for the first time in 90 years -- the World Series, has been canceled. In its place: further acrimonious bargaining lasting no one knows for how long...
...fans of basement-dwellers like the Padres and the Mets, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig's announcement Wednesday was a mercy killing, letting them concentrate on their local college concentrate on their local college and professional football teams and forget about the local nine's foibles...