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Show Monday, September THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, 5, 1994 Page B3 League of their own could be the solution to the baseball strike A decided that Spalding and his crowd were strictly excess bag- By HAL BOCK AP Sports Writer Before baseball cavalierly kisses off the rest of a season, the two sides in this war of attrition might want to consider a bit of history. The salary cap is not exactly a brand new invention. More than a century ago, when baseball was in its infancy, management solemnly once-promisi- announced that the game was doomed, that they would all go broke unless financial constraints surwere imposed. The target would be player salaries. prise Albert Spalding, first a pitcher and later an owner, headed the movement to correct the economic problem. His solution would be a ceiling on what players could earn. In view of the fact that he was no longer a player, this seemed like a perfectly plausible idea to him. proposal was the princely sum of $2,000 per player. That was an annual salary, not Spalding's monthly meal money. Predictably, this was not warmly embraced by the athletes. Their leader was John Montgomery Ward, a player who was the Marvin Miller of his time, a man who helped organize baseball's first union. Photo courtesy of LIFE Earl Miller of Orem demonstrates his famous double somersault over a inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in October. tree. The ski equipment inventor 10-fo- ot will be Orem iroveimtoir it be Inducted info National Bhi Hall off Fame t By DICK HARMON Daily Herald Sports Editor ' Earl Miller is truly a man ahead of his time. And to recognize the accomplish- ments of Utah's legendary Mr. Ski, the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame has inducted Miller, enshrining his accomplishments and personality for all time. - Miller, who is know all over the world for his inventions and contributions to skiing, still makes his home in Orem. And although he is 70 years old, he continues to work on designs, inventions and projects on the cutting edge of the ski industry. ' "It is a great honor to be recognized by your peers and I am flattered by it. I've always been grateful that I could work in something I liked to do and make a go of it,'' said Miller. When Earl Miller was just a boy living in Manti, his parents took his skis and burned them in the basement furnace. They punished him for skiing on the slopes near the family home instead of doing his chores. But Miller made another pair of skis out of pickle barrel staves. And according to Morten Lund of Snow Country Magazine, "It was a flash of the ingenuity that Earl the later made grown-u- p sport's most prolific modern inventor." Miller's philosophy has been simple. And he's shared it with students in seminars and speeches all over the world: "First find something you like to do. Second, get yourself in the field and obtain the training you need. And, third, find somebody to pay you to do it." Bill Slattery of Buffalo Grove, III., president of the United States UNLV Branch. "This class of 1994 are among some of the finest ski builders this country has ever known. We look forward to their induction into the U.S. National ski Hall of Fame in Ishpemping on Oct. 1," Slattery said. Miller, born in 1925, graduated from BYU where he was captain of the ski team. He later became the first ski coach at BYU and was one of 12 professional skiers who worked initially to form the professional ski instructors of America six-sta- pres-ident- V (PSIA). As a ski area designer, he planned the original Sundance Ski Area in Utah which was called Timp Haven and served as its first ski school director. Miller has designed mini-sareas such as Lakeview, Mont., as well as Seven Mountain Area which wiil be the largest area in the country when fully developed. ki A lifelong student of linguistics, Miller is conversational in seven languages and has taught not only in the USA but also in Europe and Japan. Miller was the first to classify ski falls and relate them to specific bones broken. He also developed a tensionmeter to measure pressures needed to break bones. A leading inventor, he holds more than 100 patents and trademarks. Miller's most significant inventions are the ski brake, the twin cam, the double roller, the platform ski pole grip, the Miller soft, arguable the best powder ski in the world and a new snowboard release binding. He has all-ang- le Washington State before graduating from BYU where he also was a member of the debate team. He has also attended seminars and classes at MIT and Michigan State. Miller grew up in the racing circuit and was Utah's four-wa- y ski in the and champion competed U.S. National four-wa- y championships. He is featured in Warren Miller's movies and on national TV in the U.S. Europe and Japan. Miller was elected a White te House delegate from the on Mountain small area Rocky businesses. Miller was also a advisor on International Trade through the district export council. He has served as an advisor to the governor of Utah on small business. Miller Ski is the oldest ski company in the U.S. and the first ski enterprise in the U.S. to receive Earl Miller worked to make skiiing safer and more fun, and has more inventions beneficial to skiers than all other ski inventors in the world combined. Sponsorship for Miller's nomination into the U.S. National Ski Hall of fame came from Dr. Thomas Oakes, LaMesa, Calif., author of Teach Yourself to Ski. Miller was endorsed by some of the legends of the sport of skiing including Junior Bounous, director of Skiing at Snowbird; Lou Lor-en- z, chairman and past president of PSIA Intermountain; Doug of PSIA, who Pfeiffer, developed freestyle competition and is an editor of Skiing Magazine from Big Bear Lake Calif.; Bill Lash, founder of PSIA from Sun Valley, Idaho; Dave McCoy, presco-oun- al the coveted Presidential 'E' Award. The company also received the Utah Sertoma's Club award for "Free Enterprise Company of the Year." Other awards included the "Mental health em' ployer of the year Award. ' Miller is featured in the March-Apr- il edition of Snow Country Magazine in a profile entitled "Ahead of His Time." Concludes the magazine: "Miller contends his life was bedeviled by imitators. He never dominated the marketplace, as Bob Lange did with plastic boots, Ed Scott with poles and Howard Head with metal skis. But Miller's fertile brain never rested. Recently he's invented a release binding for snowboards. Snowboarders are getting older and heavier, says Miller, increasing the likelihood of knee injuries. Once more, It's Earl Miller to the rescue." ident, Mammoth Mountain, Mam- moth Lakes, Calif.; and Phil Jones, president and general manager of Park City Ski Corporation Miller attended UCLA and . Ward's Brotherhood had other matters on its agenda things like the reserve rule, an issue that, until Andy Messermith and Dave would prove to be a permanent problem for players. Knowing it was an concern, the Mc-Nall- y, owners promised to abolish the troublesome rule. "Relying upon the faith of this understanding, the players signed for the following season," Ward wrote. "But lo! and behold! when the Arbitration Committee met, the rule was not rescinded." The players were not amused by this oversight by the owners and they were even less happy when, in 1888, management created a classification system that restricted salaries further. Faced with another attack on player incomes. Ward LAS VEGAS (AP) UNLV basketball coach Rollie Massimino says he will not take legal action if the university decides not to honor a secret contract that was supposed lo pay him an additional 5375,000 a year. Massimino also said he has no Intention of resigning. "I'm just not that kind of per son," said Massimino. UNLV interim president Kenny Guinn told the state Board of Regents that Massimino's secret contract is against state law because it was not brought before the regents for approval. Guinn also said he has no intention of bringing the contract before the regents for Massimino refused to defend himself against criticism he has received. Regent Shelley Berkley has said Massimino's contract should be repealed, and regent Lonnie Hammargren has called for TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -Forrest G ump is rapidly becoming Alabama's most famous football player though he never played a moment of college football. Crimson Tide athletic officials have spent hours answering questions about Gump, w ho is depicted being a star under the late coach Paul I i So jut lit 00E-CD0- E k r-- did very well. At least, it seemed they did, according to published attendance figures. At year's end, the Players League claimed to have attracted 980,887 fans to 813,678 for the National League. It's likely that both figures were inflated for propaganda purposes. This was, after all, war. The experiment lasted just one year. Both sides were bloodied by the adventure, eager for peace and grateful to declare it the following year. Ward and Spalding, the main protagonists of that first showdown, wound up linked for a baseball eternity. Both are immortalized in the Hall of Fame. Is there a lesson to be here? Perhaps. Consider the possibilities fit of pique, the current striking players decided to learned if, in a crop of create a and Reinsdorf without league Steinbrenner, a league without O'Malley and Turner. If the strike drags into 1995, contract validity might be in question. Certainly it would make an interesting legal case. And this modern declaration of e independence has a it a call could name. The players own. of their league long-ter- m ready-mad- "And this summer, while I was speaking to a number of alumni groups, it was the first question I got at several stops." Millions have seen footage of Gump scoring a big touchdown against Tennessee. They saw him standing behind former Gov. George C. Wallace. But it was all done through the magic of Hollywood special effects, with Tom Hanks portraying Gump. ALL AMERICAN GYMNASTICS INVITES Massimino's resignation. "I'm disappointed in BEGINNING GYMNASTS that," TO SIGN UP NOW FOR Massimino said. "I really feel the contract was done in a fair and ethical manner. It did not violate any NCAA rules. ... FALL CLASSES! Boys an Girls Sent m ! bus sak'ty is every-b- t kK's business. Lynx ially kids! ' s So.please.takea fewniinuti-know kids nvtke that sure to your V "Bear" Bryant in the movie "Forrest Gump." "We've had several people more than several, really call and ask," said Alabama sports information director Larry White. SWir SWP HERE I names. Players routinely moved from one team to another in those days. Now they would simply move from one league to another. More distressing was the fact that the Players League set up shop in some of the very cities where Spalding and his pals had their franchises. And what's more, they Fictional athlete becomes Tide's most famous player coach won't sue university over secret salary - : ski Association, announced the election of three ski greats to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishemping, Mich. Joining Miller are Hal O' Leary and James R. Ward's explanation for spearheading the original players' association was prophetic. "In 1885, the passage of the arbitrary S2,000 salary limit rule forced the organization of the Brotherhood for mutual protection of the players," he wrote. Apparently, that salary cap was blithely ignored by owners, much as it occasionally seems to be flaut-e- d these days in the NBA. Still, gage. When he was pitching, Spalding was an attraction. Adding up profit and loss ledgers, though, he was viewed as just another beancoun- -' ter. Ward and the players decided they could get along without him and these other uppity owners. And so, in 1890, the Players League was born. The players secured underwriters, some of them . idealists appalled by the arrogance . of owners who would set limits on . salaries and insist on controlling players in perpetuity. The athletes would be partners . in the clubs, sharing costs and income. It was a simple solution for a simple time. 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