Baseball Talks To Resume As Strike Enters Fifth Day
The Major League Players Association and management prepared to resume talks as a strike nears its fifth day. A committee of new owners and figures like Bowie Kuhn and George Steinbrenner plan to seek movement, while federal mediator Kenneth Moffett convenes a 2 p.m. session.
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Hal Bock
New York
Major League Players Association
Baseball
Bowie Kuhn Edward Bennett Williams
Washington
Baltimore Orioles
George Steinbrenner
New York Yankees
Marvin Miller
Miller
Bob Boone
Philadelphia Phillies
Don Sutton
Joe Niekro
Bob Knepper
Houston Astros
Phil Niekro
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Bill Bonham
Paul Moskau
George Foster
Cincinnati Reds
John Stearns
Rusty Staub
New York Mets
Boone
Steve Rogers
Montreal Expos
Mark Belanger
Donald Fehr
Ray Grebey
Henry Werker
Werker
National Labor Relations Board
Howver
Rose Registers Fictional Hit Sparks Phillies Strike Tales
Fictional mock reports on Rose breaking records appear in Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Journal amid a major league players strike. Gaylord Perry and Rick Mahler are named for phantom milestones as readers mistake fiction for real games.
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Philadelphia
Rose
Philadelphia Daily News
Pete
Stan
Philadelphia Journal
Phillies
Atlanta Braves
Gaylord Perry
Journal
Rick Mahler
Stan Musial
Braves
Daily News
Phils
Dodger
Fernando Valenzuela
Reagan
Cincinnati
Chris Wheeler
Jo-Anne Levy
F. Gilman Spencer
Bill Con
Wimbledon Seeding List for Men and Women
The seed lists include top men Bjorn Borg from Sweden at No 2 and John McEnroe at No 2 for the U S, with players from Argentina Paraguay Poland Hungary and more. Women seeds feature Chris Evert Lloyd Tracy Austin Martina Navratilova Andrea Jaeger Wendy Turnbull Pam Shriver and others from the U S Czechoslovakia Romania and Germany with several formatting inconsistencies in country spellings.
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Sweden
John McEnroe
U.S
Jimmy Connors
Ivan Lendl
Czechoslovakia
Gene Mayer
Brian Teacher
Brian Gottfried
Roscoe Tanner
Jose-Luis Clerc
Argentina
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Victor Pecci
Paraguay
Peter McNamara
Australia
Yannick Noah
France
Wojtek Fibak
Poland
Balasz Taroczy
Hungar
Vitas Gerulaitis
Chris Evert Lloyd
Hana Mandlikova
Czec
Tracy Austin
Martina Navratilova
Andrea Jaeger
Wendy Turnbull
Pam Shriver
Virginia Ruzici
Romania
Sylvia Hanika
WVU Athletic Dept Under Probe Amid Spending Reports
Senate President Warren McGraw said subpoenas may be issued as the state Commission on Special Investigations probes WVU athletic department spending. The inquiry follows a Morgantown Dominion Post series detailing use of the Mountaineer Illustrated account for personal expenses, hotel tabs, club memberships, and airline fares for relatives of outgoing Athletic Director Dick Martin. The commission aims to examine expenditures expeditiously.
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W.va
Senate
Warren McGraw
State Commission On Special Investigations
West Virginia University
Morgantown Dominion Post
Mountaineer Illustrated
McGraw
Wyoming County
WVU
Commission
Dominion Post
Dick Martin
Slugger Sheets Safe At Home in SI feature
Larry Sheets, once a rising star in the Appalachian League, is profiled in Sports Illustrated as being “safe at home” and increasingly disenchanted with baseball while lingering rumors and a Baltimore Orioles connection color the piece. The column also notes high school standout Jimmy Miller’s Hertz No. 1 Award in West Virginia and upcoming tryouts by Reds and Dodgers scouts, plus a league age rule change.
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Larry Sheets
Charlotte
Bluefield
Sports Illustrated
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Sheets
Orioles
Baltimore
Princeton
Jimmy Miller
Hertz Corporation
West Virginia
Miller
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
New York
O.J. Simpson
New York Athletic Club
Charlottesville
Phillies tale misleads readers with fictitious Rose Musial record
The Philadelphia Daily News runs a mythical story about Pete Rose breaking Stan Musial's NL career hitting record to fill space during the baseball strike, labeling it as yesterday's Phillies action. This fictional item aims to dispel confusion while presenting a dramatic but untrue event.
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Philadelphia Daily News
Phillies
Pete Rose
Stan Musial
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