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Show Baseball Managers And The Pressure By PETE FRITICHIE Baseball owners are holding firm and are hoping Marvin Miller will decide that, this time, he has pushed too hard, without enough compromising. comprom-ising. BIT MARVIN has fooled them before and in the past a few owners have always been unable to stand the pressure, capitulating at the very last minute. mi-nute. They may happen again this year, of course, but as of now it looks like negotiations will go on up to the 29th. There's likely to be a settlement settle-ment at the last mintue or a strike. If it's a strike, it's expected, ex-pected, now, to be short. That is. the owners are not likely to risk losing too much. THE BETTING, then, is on a strike of short duration. That may leave the final answer to I'M J. when the multi-year contract expires and a new one is w ritten. Owners are now saying that's w hen they'll take a firm stand and hold out against a strike for the w hole year, if necessary. Whether they can do this or not is the question since all must stick together to make the position effective. Surprisingly, Surpris-ingly, players have in recent years stuck together better than the owners, and that's why super salaries have the owners over a barrel today. |