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Transcript: Major League Umpires Come to the End of the Road, CBS
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- CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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ROBERTS: Efforts to resolve a bitter baseball labor dispute have
gone into extra innings tonight in Philadelphia, under the eye of
a federal judge. Unless a deal is made, 22 umpires will get the final
out call after today`s games.
John Blackstone reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JOHN BLACKSTONE, CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
In San Francisco today, umpire Paul Nauert (ph) was behind the plate
for what could be his last game in Major League Baseball. Nauert
is one of 22 umpires set to lose their jobs at midnight tonight because
they submitted letters of resignation as a union ...