The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, July 21, 1981-page 15
MEDIA BLACKOUT

No news from strike talks


WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor
Secretary Raymond Donovan took a,
personal hand in efforts to end the
major league baseball strike yester-
day, meeting with the two sides for.
some four hours and persuading them
to continue the talks under a news
blackout.
Kenneth Moffett, acting director of
the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service, said the representatives of the
players and the club owners would
return to the bargaining table at 9:30
a.m. EDT today with Donovan again
present.

"WE'VE HAD face-to-face talks all
afternoon. There's a press blackout"
imposed at the suggestion of Donovan,
Moffett told about 50 reporters,
photographers and camera crews who
staked out the first session of the talks
in Washington after more than five
fruitless weeks in New York.
Moffett refused to discuss what went
on at the session, held in the Mediation
and Conciliation Service's downtown
headquarters, and members of the two
negotiating teams were tight-lipped as
they left the building.
"Hope you guys have a nice

evening," Raymond Grebey, director
of the owners' Player Relations Com-
mittee, said to two reporters as he
departed.
MARVIN MILLER, the executive
director of the Major League Players
Association who is usually brimming
with information for the media, also
declined to comment.
News blackouts generally are seen as
protection for negotiations which have
reached a critical stage or are close to
settlement. Moffett declined to charac-
terize the blackout imposed yesterday
that way, but let it be known that he felt
the intensive media attention given to
the talks while in New York had hin-
dered progress.
"The main reason for the blackout is

the same reason we came to
Washington," he said.
"THE TWO sides should be allowed
to talk back and forth without having to
come down here to the press room like
it's a tennis match."
The mediation chief, who has been on
the baseball case for almost two years,
said he did not know how long Donovan
would stick with the talks.
"He's coming tomorrow, that's all we
know now," Moffett said. "And we hope
to get things moving again."
DONOVAN HAD met with
negotiators last Wednesday for about
one hour but left that day before
negotiations had resumed. Friday, he
called the chief negotiators to
Washington to try to budge the stalled


1968 - Year of the Tiger
It doesn't matter if you side with the players or the owners in the
current baseball strike, there is one thing that everyone agrees on-it is
an unfortunate situation. So in order to partially relieve the misery of
any baseball junkies going through withdrawal, throughout the
duration of the strike the Daily is providing a look back to a more
pleasant time-1968. There was no free agent compensation, no
NLRB, no court injunctions-and no strike. And for those of you
who don't remember, in 1968 the Tigers were winners, World Series
winners, in fact. Each day the Daily relates the results of the previous
evening's Tiger game-minus 13 years.
July 20-Orioles 5, Tigers 3
Baltimore
DETROIT (AP) - Pitcher Dave AB R H RBI
McNally slammed a two-run homer Buford, cf ............. 3 1 1 9
for his first hit in 42 at-bats this Blair,.. ...0 0 0
Beangers.......4 0 0 0
season, pacing the Baltimore Robinson, F., rf ........ 2 2 1 2
Orioles to a 5-3 victory over the Powell, lb ......,...... 4 0 1 0
American League-leading Detroit Blefary, if............. 2 0 1 1
Tigers and 18-game winner Denny Robinson, B., 3b .... 2 0 2 0
Tcigrnd8gaeJohnson, 0. 2b ...4 0 0 *0
McLain yesterday. Etchebarren, c........ 4 1 1 0
The Tigers' loss, coupled with the McNally, p ............ 3 1 1 2
defeat New York suffered at the irabender, p .......... 0 0 0 0
hands of Cleveland hurler Luis watt, p ......... 1 0 0 0
Tiant, cut the Detroit lead to 612 O'Donoghue, D., p ..... 0 0 0 0
games over the second-place In- TOTALS ............ 30 5 7 5
dians.
McNally's first major league Detroit
homer and a two-run blast by Frank AB R H RBI
Robinson in the fifth inning chased McAu lfe, 2b. 4 1 1
Stanleyc ........4 1 2 2
McLain and snapped the Detroit Kaline, lb .............40 o o
righthander's winning streak at nine Freehan, c ............ 3 5 0
games. It was the first time in 24 Horton, W., If.......... 3 0 1 0
starts this year that McLain, 18-3, Wert, 3b.. .. 3 0 0 0
has been knocked out of the box. Nortrop, rt.. 41 1
McNally, 11-8, blanked the Tigers Oyler, ss .............. 2 0 s0
on one hit until Mickey Stanley Matehick, ss ........... 2 1 1 0
doubled with one out in the seventh. McLain, p .............1 0 0 0
Al Kaline stroked a run-scoring aen. . t . 0 0
single and Bill Freehan walked. wyatt, p ...............0 0 s0 0
Gene Brabender came on in relief Brown, G., ph ..........0 0 s0 0
and hit Willie Horton with a pitch, Ribant, p .............. 0 50
filling the bases, then struck out Don TOTALS ............ 32 3 7 3
Wert and got Jim Northrup on an in-
field fly to end the threat. Baltimore .....................000 140 000-5
The Tigers, however, closed the Detroit ............... ...000000 120-3
gap on Stanley's two-run single in E-Wert. DP-Baltimore 2, Detroit 1.
the eighth before Eddie Watt LOB-Baltimore 5, Detroit 5. 2B-Stanley.
replaced Brabender and got Kaline 3B-Buford. HR-McNally (1), Robinson, F. (7).
to hit into a rally-killing double play. SB-Robinson, F. SF-Blefary.
Elsewhere in the American IP H R ER BB so
League, Ken Harrelson scored four McNally (W, 11-8) ..... 6, 3 1 1 1 1
runs with his 21st homer of the Brabender ............t1 2 2 2 1 1
season and a base hit to lead the Watt ....tt 00 0
O'Dnoghue...... % 1 0 0 500
Boston Red Sox to a 7-2 victory over McLain (L, 18-3) ....... 4' 6 5 5 3 4
the Washington Senators at Fenway Warden ......1 , 1 0 0 0 2
Park, and Joe Rudi, pinch-hitting for Wyatt ................. 2 5 0 0 2 2
the Oakland Athletics in the 11th in- Ribant ........ 1 0 0 0 50
ning of their game against Min- HBP-McLain (Robinson, F.), Brabender
nesota, singled in a run to give the (Horton, W.). T-2:54. A-31.748.
A's a 2-1 victory over the Twins. -

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Don 't look down A ht
American gymnast Vidmar Peter, a student at UCLA, flies through the air
yesterday during competition at the World University Games in Bucharest,
Romania. Peter was also a member of the 1980 United States Olympic squad.


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