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Article: Baseball Sentences Itself to Hard Labor
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 7, 1996
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Highly placed sources inside the negotiations have made
available a copy of the proposed baseball labor agreement between
players and owners. Because of the sensitive nature of the
negotiations, I'm somewhat reluctant to publish the entire document.
But here, word for word, is the first page of the proposed
agreement:
"Twas' brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the
wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe."
(Bud, Donald, perhaps you can explain that to all of us. I'm
sorry. Am I disturbing you? Are you working on something truly
important -- like whether to announce game-time temperatures in
Fahrenheit or Celsius?)
Owners' negotiator Lewis ...