European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse 26 the stars and stripes August 1985 Rozelle sees All elements for nil strike new York a the football play ers want what baseball the hockey players want a fair share of the something the basketball Union won a few years and baseball wanted nothing to do Wilh basketballs salary leaders of All the professional sports unions were watching last week when major league baseball went on strike for two management and commissioner Pete says the National football like May face its second player strike in five years when the current contract expires after the 1986 All of the elements arc there that will make it very difficult to reach told the Washington Post last i wont say Well necessarily have a strike but i will say that it will be a serious bargaining situation for the the two strikes followed each other last baseball going out for 50 Days in 1981 and football for 57 Days the next that wont happen this since the nil con tract Lias two seasons Iene executive director of the no players int predicting a strike but like be sur prised if i he bargaining next time is visits to the training Camps have Given Upshaw one Clear goal for the next negotiations True free an nil player can become a free agent but the compensation for signing a free agent is too costly a photo nil commission or Pete Rozelle negotiations ahead for Many teams to be All the players Are saying we want to be free we want free Upshaw reporting on his recent visits to the if that is what there going to ask till be a pretty Tough responded Jim Public relations director for the Nils management the leagues system of sharing the wealth gives owners no incentive to build a winning Upshaw and now the weakening of the rival United states football league Means salaries Arent going up As they were in 1983 and he with we saw salaries go with the Lack of there is no Chance salaries will go Upshaw we need whether its Competition from another league or among the owners in our the owners Are not saying there going to the what they Are saying is that the rate of increase was just too they much rather be where they Are today with the payrolls in there two years too due to with television ratings Down and the Nils contract with the three networks due to expire after the 1986 that could be a particular Rozelle when baseball went on the director of the National hockey league players Union predicted his sport would soon be facing the first player walkout in its we Are worlds Alan Eagleson said in an interview from his office in the Only Way to solve the problem if you cant negotiate is to go on theres Al ways a Chance we will go on the nil contract expires after the 198586 and Eagleson said the Union is thinking about a strike during training Camp next when the owners Are paying lower salaries but collecting full admission for exhibition in supporting the unions desire to have salaries tied to Eagleson said the players Drew 27 percent of the profits be fore the world hockey As much As 60 percent when there was a rival league and now about 45 we listened in 1982 when times were Tough and seven of 10 teams were losing he now maybe two or three Are losing Money and 10 or 11 clubs Are making lots of we want a share of the just As we tempered our requests when we we rent making that much the National basketball association has the first guaranteed percentage contract in pro its Union also accepted a com plex salary Cap when negotiations averted a strike in the Deal guarantees the players 53 per cent of Gross minus parking and and limits the salaries of new baseball owners proposed a salary but it was dropped before they reached agreement wednesday with the should have held out until they gave us something7 angers owner blasts strike settlement Texas a Eddie majority owner of the Texas who is angry Over the settlement that ended the today baseball said some teams could face bankruptcy As a who kept silent throughout the strike negotiations in Light of commissioner Peter Ueberroth gag lashed out Friday against the charging the games financial Structure is getting close to social he said he would have liked to have been sitting at the negotiating and called the outcome of the conflict this baseball is an ant american system being con trolled by an outside Chiles said in a Story in the fort Worth owners cant be held responsible unless they have the authority and right to control 1 predict Well see bankruptcy in baseball and losses for most and there will be a downgrading of baseball fans Are used to it is he Chiles said negotiators in new York should have let the strike run its course so that the two sides could fight it out without to have it mutually imposed by someone on the out Side someone with no stake in the game that not he Chiles said owners should be in total control of their financial destiny by being in control of their that the american owners should have held out until the major league players association gave us something Chiles he said he had not talked to any members of the player relations which negotiated the settlement reached by owners and the players association wednes and that most of his information on the strike and the settlement came from As i understand said the player relations committee had very Little input into the structuring of the the player relations committee is composed of league presidents Bobby Brown american and Chub Feeney and owners John Mcmullen Peter Omalley los Bud Selig Milwaukee and Edward Bennett Williams with Lee Macphail and Barry Rona As its chief if he had been at the negotiating he would have stood Strong on not giving the Union any More than it already had because Treyve already made the Industry said 1 would want something Back from regardless of what the players think or the pc player relations committee baseball is losing Money at the rate of million a and those Are real no business can last very Long with this kind of economic he said a lot of fans have told him that the strike should have the fans know the salaries Are out of Chiles they know the players Are being they know that baseball is in this strike settlement should have been handled on a fair and equitable the owners didst get he said it will catch up to the game i Felt like the players had gone so the owners should have asked for something Back from the Union to make our Industry just like the airline and Auto industries have Chiles this was the time to ask for something Chiles hinted that he believed the player relations committee might have been ordered to reach a but he did not mention i just dont know How much the pc had to do with Chiles i know that some of these strikes Are settled by outside but that a dictated set attempts by the associated press to reach Chiles at his office and Home for comment were no a photo Pedro Guerrero a Happy return from Page 21 club after playing 11 in the Lethander Gene who like Dilone joined the padres from their triple Las vegas farm team pitched the final three innings to gain the save in his first major league dodgers reds 1 los Angeles a three run Homer by Pedro Guerrero in the first inning pow ered Bob Welch to his seventh straight scattered eight including Pete roses first inning the reds player manager now needs just 21 hits to surpass to Cobbs Al time Mark of Guerrero slugged his league leading 28th Homer of the season after Mariano Duncan and Enos Cabell had opened the inning with the Long blast Over the Centerfield Wall helped Guerrero atone for missing thursday nights 65 loss to the he missed the game after fail ing to make his flight from the dominican Republic after a settlement in the baseball strike was expos pirates 2 Montreal Bryn Smith and Jeff Reardon combined for a while Tim Raines and Hubie Brooks each stroked two hits and scored a pair of runs to Lead went 7 innings for the Vic giving up four and Reardon picked up his major league leading 29th Pittsburgh starter Rick who left the game after the fourth inning with a Blister on his right Index took the dropping his record to braves giants 5 san Francisco Terry Harper singled Home the tie breaking run As at Lanta scored five runs in the eighth inning to come from behind and nip san Francis the braves Are 393 in games they led going into the ninth the giants had Only six the first three off Atlanta starter Steve reliever Jeff got the Victory and allowed Only one a two run Homer by David his in the Bottom of the Bruce Sutler came on in the eighth for Atlanta to Post his 18th save of the although he was touched for two hits and a run in the ninth an sports television Golf pea 10 radio baseball Houston astros at san Diego 10
