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"Sports Illustrated" in their July 6 issue
printed the following letter to the editor
.. As a longtime Washington, D.C.
area resident, I can sympathize with
the baseball fans in other parts of the
.. country who are now suffering through
,jan empty summer. I can also under
stand their bitterness toward players .
-and management Many of us in this
area felt the same way 10 years ago
when our beloved Senators were taken
away despite our unwavering loyalty.
Nobody cared about the fans then,
. and nobody cares now.
Joe Kasell
Alexandria, Va.
That letter was written by a baseball fan
who, despite the fact that his favorite team
and hero, slugger Frank Howard, were taken
away from him when he was ten years old
(Kasell is now 20 and a Junior at George
Mason University), he is still a baseball fan.
He understands how the rest of the coun
try's fans fee! now that everyone's baseball
games and baseball heroes have been taken
away. Even though he was young when Sen
ator's owner Bob Short moved the team to
Texas to become the Rangers. Kasell doesn't
hold any long-term grudges against the
game.
"I still like baseball and I followed Frank
Howard's progress with the Rangers," Kasell
said. "But, as' I grew older and realized the
reasons behind the move, I developed a deep
resentment of all the owners 'I feel the
owner was responsible then forthe Senators
being moved, and now for the baseball
strike, 4 realize that the owners don't care
that much about the fans."
Kasell said that there were lots of letters
to the Washington papers which proved that
other fans share his sentiments. One, in par
ticular, came from a one-time Senator fan:
"Soon the baseball strike will be over and
everyone wil! have their baseball back, but
not us."
Carl Kasell, Joe's father, was also a Sen-
Sadness, apathy and sarcasm
baseball strike stirs local sentiments
BY CLINTON WEAVER
With the baseball strike now over a
month old, local sentiment is running
towards a combination of sadness, apathy
and sarcasm, according to a local survey.
Some people miss Saturday afternoons tun
ed in to NBC, others couldn't care less that
those addicts aren't getting their weekly fix,
and a few are just making fun of a totally
satirical situation.
Edward A. Brecht, 70, said, "I think it's a
sad thing. I hate to see it go. Baseball is a
wonderful thing. It might be helpful to find
out that this country can survive a year with
out baseball."
"The players should have the right to
negotiate and should have bargaining
powers," Joel Sheer said. "The owners view
it strictly as a business. The fans are ulti
mately hurt as a result of the strike and as a
result of the settlement The only good thing
about the strike is that is will teach 8-'through
10-year-olds about collective bargaining."
John Clark, 73, of Chapel Hill, said, "Most
of the people around my place really miss it.
It puts a lot of people out of work."
Erma Mai lory, age 22, of Plymouth, N.C.,
said "It doesn't affect me near as much as
other people since I'm not as avid a baseball
fan as other people. But I don't think it's fair
to other people or to television because of
all the major screw-ups it has caused. Just
think of the armchair athlete who must pla
cate himself by watching reruns, old movies,
etc."
Pat Graham, 27, a Chapel HiU resident,
echoed similar sentiments concerning the ef
fect the strike has had on her. "It doesn't af
fect me at all. As far as sitting and watching
it on T.V., f don't like doing that at all. If s a
shame they are trying to get more money
when it could be used for much more impor
tant things." .
Ron Kane, 25, of Chapel Hill, offered
'some insights into the negotiations. "Ifs
starting to be right now that the owners are
trying to use the strike as a tool. The players
are losing a lot of money. The owners are
breaking even with the minor leagues'
Kane ended his comments with a state
ment most of us, fans or not could relate to.
"I'll miss the World Series coming up," he
ended.
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the move hit the city with a shocje.
"No one believed that we'd every really
lose the Senators," he said. "Who could ever
imagine the nation's capital without the na
tion's pastime?"
And probably not many people ever
believed the whole nation would ever lose
the. nation's pastime, but look at us now.
"We lived by the promise by Bowie Kuhn
that we would be getting a team back in
Washington," Carl Kasell said. "Kuhn likes
to talk about how he used to run the score
board in old Criff ith Stadium and since the
Griffiths used to be involved with the Sen
ators, he thought that we'd believe that he
wanted to get a team back here."
"There has even been talk of building a
stadium between Baltimore and Washington
so that there really would be a joint team be
tween the two cities," Kasell said.
"But we've finally come to realize that it
will take a minor miracle to get at team back
in Washington and Mr. Kuhn isn't very well
thought of around here."
Now all the baseball fans are living by the
federal mediator, Kenneth Moffett and the
players' representative Ray C re bey, waiting
for any glimmer of hope that there might be
another major league game played this sum
mer. So far thafs all there have been
glimmers of hope. It would sure be a shame
if major league baseball went the way of the
old Washington Senators.
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