OCR Text |
Show I. r I NOT THf ONLY ANSWER: DESERET NEWS, Monday, Players Seek Clause Change ; By MILTON RICKMAN UPI Sports Writer (UPI) -League baseball YORK NEW Majorwill ; notify the owners and officially players shortly that they want the reserve clause drastically revised or eliminated completely. procedure incorporated into the basic agreement between the baseball players and the owners. Miller says the rub there is that Pete Roselle, the football commissioner, has the final veto. In football, the commissioner has it within his power to negate any playing out of an option," Miller says. He has the right to say what players a team must give in return for one who has played out his option with another team. So what youre talking about is an engineered trade. Thats really all you have in fcotball. A guy is dissatisfied so he uses this as a lever. ly all the revisions they will propose in the basic agreement. Since he has not yet heard from the players within all 21 major league clubs, Miller says he doesnt know precise There are as many possibilities of revision in this structure as there are imaginations to create, he says. 11, 1969 B9 We Welcome You To Our New Location i you have pietty Acually, much the same thing m baseball. Only without the lever. August VOLKSWAGEN 3711 So. State INTERMOUNTAIN Complete Parts, , Sales & Phone 262-64- 01 Service This particular piece of information has been given me by a number of players in both the American and National Leagues and when I asked Marvin Miller, the head of the players association, about it, he said: , I have no doubt there will be something said on that subject in the list of proposals we shall submit to the owners before Aug. 31. , MiEer is referring to proposed changes in the basic between the players association and the owners. The agreement expires this coming Dec. 31 and any proposed changes must be submitted before Aug. 31. agreement When Bowie the Kuhn, baseball commissioner, was asked how he felt about the players proposals he said he would have no comment until he actually received it. That should be most any time now in the next 20 days. The reserve clause, which is part of the standard baseball contract, falls into pretty much the same category as the weather. Everybody always talks about it, but nobody ever does anything about it For the first time now, the players say they wish to. Those who want to keep the reserve clause the same way it has always been and the way it is today raise the question of what would become of the professional baseball structure if, say a player like Johnny Bench, were free to play for Cincinnati this year, Boston the next and Minnesota the next. - ( Those who want to change I the reserve clause or do away ; ' with it entirely raise the ques- turn of why should any player, say the same Johnny Bench, be tied to the Cincinnati Reds all his life. m BsttirotiiyiiiitsimooiS Come in.. 4-Mm ConITKsai toJT, "toll 'em f V 4 - j 4 Kj Here is the imbalance, Millre said, illustrating this point A player signs his contract What he is doing is giving an option on his services for his entire lifetime career. In return, he is guarangeed 30 days security, meaning if the dub wants to release him all t has to do is give him 30 days pay. Yet Miller also says doing away with the reserve clause isnt the entire answer. Air? cfTfcoco Sizes 7.75093 $ 1 you to $236 Fed.Ex.Ta - i WHITEWALLS t Any of These Sizes related rules, like the no pering rule and so forth which bear heavily on the player-du- b relationship. The is that a player whole concept ; V is property and you dont lose property unless you sell it or j. trade it away. tam- - sent ptusizaa &25x You can take out the reserve clause and still nothing wquld be different There are ; Charley BLACKWA LLS CS I1 7J5xE PQ n 825 xM L Professional football players rare permitted to play out their options, which is one Jorm of getting around any tlub reserving a player for life, but Miller isnt too interested in seeing that same T I Uw y O Plus $229 to $2.36 t o Fed. Ex. Tax 't t 650 x 13 Bladwatl Tubetess Plus Fed. Ex. Tax $L79 BUY BEFORE LABOR DAY... NO TRADE NEEDED r "iio rjYLcn g::j hag i:i-- mileage Tefsya Rubber 6J0X15 Tobeless 6 PI 7.10x15 Tubetypt 6 P8 6.50x16 m 1 1 'iWltfBSBii' itiWW (HUARAN1E - ALL DAY SATURDAY ,1 OPEN LGkOG ASTCTIC Tam;:- -: SAL? LAKE MSSo 355-623- Main 4299 itiMrdilt Roid OGDEN - V ll ever im I Hxey How an tha brightest jwrvt com to red, Onego, yedow, gmu or Mea wNh cantoaeting sidewall atripw. Two popular 30 inch atoaa, to a dbnice or match em. trend designs. Mbc fades tiww ..I III. ? ,m .... 3fW91T IK! ) - i0 6 70x 1$ Tube type, plus $2J0 Fed. Ex. Tm ft Tubstype 6 PR 7.00 x 15 Tabetyp 6 PR mt 7JX) x 16 Tabetype 6 Ptt t t ! t t MM. b.Taat t 0 t t $33J0 270 53SJ55 $2.55 o $3115 $2.62 t $3170 $2.85 t t t l $3.00 I It |