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Answering baseball labor questions

By Eric Immerman
Special to Page 2

Thursday, August 15, 2002

Wondering what's really going on behind closed doors on the baseball labor negotiating front? Page 2 was, too. And then we figured, why not just ask? So we asked a few probing questions of A Man Who Knows. (Don't ask us to name him ... gentlemen never tell.) And here's what he came back with: Q: Why didn't the player's union set a strike date Monday? A: Publicly, the players claimed there was enough progress in negotiations to postpone setting a date. Privately, they admitted to receiving a ...

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