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Article: Can Major League Baseball survive another strike?
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- May 17, 2002
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Bob Sr.: Yes!
Major League Baseball is in quite a quandary. Attendance this
season is down 5 percent. The Major League Baseball owners tried to
begin solving their financial problems by downsizing. But the
players' union went to court along with individual teams and scotched
that for now at least.
The players union and the owners do not have a new labor agreement
and haven't had since last year. They have been in negotiations from
time to time since, but so far they apparently are not even close to
a new labor contract. So this week, the New York Times reported that
the players' union is talking about going on strike in August.
The union is careful to state that it is just talk at this time, ...