Johnson
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CINCINNATI (AF) — Manager
Davey Johnson, who much* the
Cincinnati Rods a winner again
but couldn't win favor with
owner Marge Schott, has been
given permission to speak with
the Baltimore Orioles about
their managing vacancy.
Johnson, in the final year of
his contract, kept the Rods in
first place in the Nl, Central vir
tually all season despite numer
ous player injuries. Johnson was
willing to talk about a contract
extension when the season end
ed, but Schott said the day the
World Series was canceled she
hadn't given it any thought.
Schott also has been mum on
whether she will extend the
contract of general manager Jim
Bowden, who has been signing
players for next season despite
the uncertainty over his future.
The Orioles have made Oak
land manager Tony La Russa the
top candidate to replace Johnny
Oates, who was fired Monday
night. La Russa's contract with
the A's expires next month.
Johnson is one of at least five
other candidates on the Orioles'
list. They received permission
Wednesday to talk to Johnson,
who played for Baltimore from
1966-72.
Bowden wouldn't discuss
Johnson's situation beyond a
statement that said the Reds
would like to retain him. It was
the first time the Reds have pub
licly said they would like John
son to stay.
uowoen s statement saia
lohnson "has made it clear to
the Reds that he would like the
opportunity to return to Balti
more, where he grow up and int
er won two World Series ns a
player."
Reached by telephone
Wednesday at their home near
Orlando, Fla., Johnson's wife,
Susan, said the couple had just
returned from vacation. She said
Johnson didn't have any com
ment because he was waiting to
hear from the Orioles
The situation is reminiscent of
1992, when Schott waited until
after a 90-win season to
approach Lou I’iniella about a
contract extension. Finiella had
grown weary of Schott ignoring
him and turned down her offer.
Johnson has never managed to
gain favor with Schott. Bowden
brought him in to replace man
ager Tony Perez, one of Schott’s
favorites, who was fired 44
games into the 1993 season.
When the 1994 season started,
Schott had good things to say
about Bowden and coach Ray
Knight — considered the lead
ing candidate to replace Johnson
if he doesn't return. But she was
obviously cool toward Johnson,
saying he'd Imtter win quickly.
Hu did, keeping the Reds in
first place for all but 11 days
despite a wave of injuries. The
Reds lost Rob Dibble in spring
training, leaving them with
Class A pitcher Hector Carrasco
as their closer. He soon was ail
ing. too.
Catcher Joe Oliver developed
an arthritic condition the second
week of the season and didn't
play again, and starter Tom
Browning broke his left arm
while throwing a pitch May 9.
House approves labor matters bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
Huu*« subcommittee on
Wednesday took, the first step
to removing baseball's antitrust
exemption, approving a limit
ed bill that deals only with
labor matters.
The bill, w .hed tiled for a vote
Thursday by the House Judi
ciary Committee, would give
baseball players the same legal
status as athletes in other s|xirts
if owners unilaterally impose
work rules, such as a salary rap
Maselmll owners have been
exempt from antitrust laws
since a 1922 U S Supreme
Court decision
"This is an historic das For
the first time in the history of
Congress, a subcommittee —
and tomorrow a committee —
has voted to remove an exemp
tion that has existed for over 50
years." said Rep Mike Synar.
the Oklahoma Democrat who
sponsored the bill
Rep Jack Hrooks, the Texas
Democrat who c hairs the House
fudiciary Committee, said base
ball was "on the verge of being
destroyed or worse — written
off by the American public."
"The barons of the game
appear to hove forgotten the
fiduciary respect of a public
trust.” he said
However, two key provisions
the union wanted were deleted
before Wednesday's vote by the
fudiciary Committee's sub
committee on economic and
commercial law
The first eliminated what
amounted to an automatic:
injunction against a salary cap
until any lawsuits are decided
The second left it up to the
courts to determine whether the
union would have to dec ertify
before a suit could lie heard —
a tac tic forced on Ni l. players
in 1087.
Union head Donald Fehr. tes
tifying before the subcommit
tee last week, promised that if
the original bill by Synar
became law. players would end
the strike. which began Aug 12
“1 think this evidences a
growing r<« ognition on behalf
of the Congress that them are
significant abnormalities here
that need to he corrected or
you're going to continue to have
strikes and lockouts all the
time,'' Kehr said Wednesday
after his meeting with players
Fehr wouldn't say if tho
amended hill, if emit ted. would
lead players to end the strike
"Fvon though it's short, hills
of this type take some scrutiny,"
he said.
Acting commissioner Hud
Selig also said he would reserve
judgment
"Certainly this is what the
chairman said lie was going to
do last week." Selig said
Another Mouse panel, the
Education and l.ahor subcom
mi (too on labor-managatnont
relations, is to hold a hearing
Thursday on a bill by Rep. Pal
Williams. D-Mont . that would
impose binding arbitration if
players and owners don't agree
on a deal by Feb. 1 The arbi
trator. much in the manner of a
salary arbitrator, would select
the final offer of one side. His
decision would he issued by
March 15
"11ns is precedent-setting for
this i ommitteo and an indica
tion of the crisis in baseball,"
Williams said
Among those scheduled to
testify Thursday are Or/a, l.os
Angeles Dodgers pits her Orel
Hershiser. New York Yankees
outfielder Bemio Williams,
owners' negotiator Richard Rev
itiii, management lawyer (Hun k
O'Connor, economist Henry
Aaron and law professor Cary
Kolmrts
Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) —Any attempt
by bnstthall ownen to stage games
with strike-breakers is doomed to
fail, California Angels outfielder
Chili Davis said Wednesday
"I don't think that Frank
Thomas or Barry Bond* or ken
Griffey or anyone like that will
step across that line." Davis said
after the sixth in a series of play
er meetings with union chief
Donald Fehr. I know those play
ers and what they're made of. and
they're competitive What they're
made of is how they got where
they are."
Sixty-one players from it4
teams met with Fehr for three
hours in a hotel near the Phoenix
airport for a briefing on the strike
and cancellation of the season
The last stop on the tour is Dal
las on Thursday.
Mike Fetters of the Milwaukee
Brewers, u Phoenix-area resident,
said House subcommittee
approval of legislation that would
remove baseludl's antitrust status
could he a boost for Arizona,
which has a $240 million spring
training interest in eight teams as
well as expansion plans.
The Maricopa County super
visors' approval for .1 sales-tax
increase to fund construction of
a mn|or league ballpark, expires
March 11 Expansion hid leaders
say the project is too hig to build
without tax revenue, so missing
tlie deadline would kill the
Phoenix hid.
"1 think a hig issue more than
anything has to do with the
antitrust exemption of Iwseball,"
l etters said I think with a dtx 1 ■
sion oti that, everything else
would fall into plat e I think An
zona's in trouble with the fact
that spring training is coining
around the comer, and if we
don't have spring training, that's
going to he n hig blow to this
state
"If baseball is exempt from the
antitrust laws, I think it'll help
this place, because there is a
chance of expansion "
Kohr said ho isn't confident
about the future of spring train
ing or owners' interest in expan
sion without a bargaining agree
ment.
I think it's in peril right now
It doesn't mean it can't he put
hack together, obviously, hut I
think it's at risk,'' he said
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