European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                26 the stars and stripes july 1985 we must be prepared for no baseball by Ira Berkow new York not take me out to the Ball take me out with the crowd it looks and if there is indeed a baseball strike in two then we must be we must get up a survival kit for the hot Days and nights not like in when no one could believe the players would actually Cross the foul line and form a picket when it that it could not Contin we were caught even without a recording of take me out to the Ball game to feed our baseball starved souls during those doleful seven it was like the Lime Robert Fulton put his the on the Hudson for its sceptics said it would never when it they said it would never that it was unbelievable from Start to buy me some peanuts and i dont care if i never get Back but will there be a another strike is there really a need for a survival kit must we Bunker in the parties of the first part and the parties of the second part appear grievously the owners Are trying desperately to Retreat into the Feudal past the players arc trying to maintain their positions As unfettered citizens in a free the owners have never forgiven the players for their rebellion of 10 years when they broke the chains of the Reserve clause and attained a modified free along with selected arbitration in salary the owners had said they were losing dough by the barrel full but refused to make their ledgers now they have opened the and it seems their accountant is none other than Blackstone the George for says the Yankees Are losing million a year with an exciting team in the greatest Market in the on the face of this would mean that Stcin Brenner is such a Birdbrain Busi commentary Nessman he cant make a go of a sure there Are kids running lemonade stands who could turn a profit on the but a Check of Georges books reveals that he uses his hotel in Tampa and a Hal million dollars to Charity As baseball these Are just two of the creative items in the Yankee ledgers and other teams have statements equally As maybe Steinbrenner and his fellow feud lists Are not As dumb As they want us to believe they Are after but the players Are Wise enough to hire people who know How to read such and they note while salaries have increased 48 per cent since the last the owners operating revenues have grown with the new billion television con tract for six years to 52 and when total expenses Are measured against total the major leagues As an Industry come out with a Sweet million perhaps the following Best sums up the situation there was a time when the league stood for integrity and fair dealing today it stands for dollars and once it looked to the Elevation of the game and an honest exhibition of the today its eyes Are upon the men have come into the business for no other motive than to exploit it for every Dollar in this was a statement from the brotherhood manifesto this was a group of Ball players who protested the Iron hold the owners had on them and revolted and formed their own the players the league lasted one so nearly a Century later and its business As let me Root for the Home and if they dont win its a for the fan who has had his head buried in the daily standings and batting he must now come out of his dream world and prepare not for a Pennant for his but for life without he May be forced to Settle in for a goodly we have now a cassette of the Cincinnati pops playing take me out to the Ball up on the Wall must go that old color photo saved from a Lon lost Magazine of Ted his head thrown Back in a joyous we must gather some of there Are some new ones we want with by William Pineta red and by Jim the artful by Tommy Lasorda and David and nine innings by Daniel and some old favourites Roger Angelus Roger kahns of the  desert Island the baseball Stock the refrigerator with packages of hot dogs and jars of and some this brings up because there is a plastic 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