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The sure cure for all this greed by the ballplayers would be for the advertisers to band together and demand a 25 percent cut in the fees charged by the TV industry before they place any more commercials for airing.

Baseball is our national ”pastime,” not a game that was meant to guarantee players a filthy million annually for life after only a few years on the field.

TV has its good points, but all this money and control it possesses over

”our” game is not one of them.