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...have come as a cruel irony. Their chance at putting their names u on the mantle above most of their colleagues was destroyed by their willingness to get right in line behind negotiator Donald Fehr. These are the men that the owners are trying to fit for a salary cap, but they are the players who keep the game alive...
...regain some of the territory that baseball has lost in both the American psyche and wallet in the past decade. The owners have taken away the opportunity for the fans to participate in a record-setting year through their Nielsen boxes and their local sports merchandise shop. The cap worn by the man who might have broken Maris' record would have been worn later by legions of the young...
...also a bit much. In its grandiloquent excess, Baseball reflects the sport's increasingly hallowed status in American life. Somewhere along the road from Cap Anson to Rickey Henderson, baseball ceased being merely a game; it became a poem. Grubby, declasse sports like football and basketball might draw more crowds and more national TV coverage, but for truly discriminating fans -- the ones with Ivy League degrees who never sit in the bleachers -- baseball became the sport supreme. It's the one with the perfect, immutable dimensions and no clock to artificially limit the action; the one that values finesse...
...mainstream coalition," adds Rhode Island's John Chafee, "they just can't make sizable changes in it." That could mean that the mainstreamers won't budge on their insistence on specific provisions that would limit federal health-care spending and on some cost-control requirements, perhaps via a cap on tax deductibility for employer contributions to their workers' health plans. Both labor and business are opposed to a limit on deductibility...
Negotiations between striking baseball players and team owners broke off acrimoniously with no timetable for future talks, further dimming prospects for resumption of play. As the stalemate entered a third week, neither side showed flexibility on the most divisive issue, which is a proposed cap on players' salaries. As the grown-ups squabbled, kids could at least watch the Little League World Series final between Venezuela...