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...players unions returned to the negotiating tables for the first time since the strike was called, but they apparently didn't make any headway. The 13-day-old walk-out has cancelled 170 games. The major stumbling block: players want owners to give up their demands for a salary cap...
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...
...mediator: Big Rock Candy Mountain Landis, grandson of commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had ruled the sport with an iron 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...
...right to shop their services after six years in the majors to any team willing to bid for them, salaries have soared. But what would happen if the players were free starting from Day One? That, oddly enough, could depress salaries even more than the owners' much desired salary cap...