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Show BASKBALL STRIKE ISOVER The strike is finally over. The major league baseball strike that lasted 50 days and canceled 594 games ended early Friday morning when federal mediator Kenneth Moffett emerged from a final meeting with negotiators and announced, an-nounced, "It's settled." According to the terms of the settlement, the All-Star All-Star Game will be played Sunday, Aug. 9 in Cleveland and the regular season games will begin on Aug. 10. Before play is resumed, 58 days will have passed and 711 games will have been wiped out. Both sides made major compromises. The players didn't want professional player compensation, but they got it. The owners didn't want compensation from a "player pool" concept, but they got that. The players wanted their service time restored for days on strike and it was. The owners wanted the union to drop its unfair labor practice charge, filed with the National Labor Relations Board. And the union agreed. The basic agreement, which includes the new compensation formula, will be extended one year to Dec. 31, 1984. The pension agreement was entended a year to March 31, 1985. According to terms of the agreement, professional compensation com-pensation will be provided for a maximum of eight "ranking" free agents this year, nine in each of the next two years. A ranking free agent is one whose statistics oer the previous two years place him among the top 20 percent of the players in the majors. The system begins with each team at the end of the season protecting 26 players in its entire organization, leaving the rest exposed in a player pool. When a tpim signs a ranking fres agent, it must additionally expose two more plpyers Then, when a team loses a ranking free ag?nt, it is entitled to pick any exposed ex-posed ; player available, regardless of his team. But the pickin", team must also pay ;-lW,000 to the team from uhich its compensation "arr.e. t .it..i iUJ-x ..!.--i-i r. i"' S'' ' (' " - ' - IT r .-.. - -r t Ity jr . , -,,. '"" ' .... -s -;- r - . u I' - ry.A ..-... -.-. - fer- ri;.x-i ! , i . . vs . .. . r - f-'-,' i ,' ........ " . s- . -mM ivm Wt: "I Vm-tfl-jr- -r .. ..... ' ' ' i 'I ii.ii -t am ' r--T THE SOFTBALL is sent on a trip to home plate by Maeser 3rd's Levi Smuin. Maeser 3rd captured second place in the tournament. |