| 1920 | Nov 13, 1920 - With Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of the United States District Court as arbitrator, a one-man court of last resort, peace will obtain in professional baseball for at least seven years, while the eminent jurist will also continue to strike terror into the hearts of criminals by ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30814FF3D551A738DDDAA0994D9415B808EF1D3
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| 1947 | Nov 5, 1947 - The feud that raged for seven days between Leslie M. O'Connor, general manager of the Chicago White Sox, and AB Chandler, Commissioner of Baseball, over the signing of a 17-year-old Chicago high school pitcher ended today with O'Connor's "surrender." ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40617FB3B5E17738DDDAC0894D9415B8788F1D3
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| 1969 | Feb 5, 1969 - Bowie Kuhn, a 42-year-old Wall Street lawyer who has been intimately involved with various baseball problems for more than a decade, was named Commissioner Pro ... Instead, Feeney and Burke were added to the planning committee, whose task it is to restructure baseball administration. ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C15F839541A7493C7A91789D85F4D8685F9
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| 1989 | Aug 25, 1989 - "The prism through which I see things," A. Bartlett Giamatti said in a conversation earlier this year, "is the prism that understands baseball is an enormously important American institution with long and deep roots, whose purpose is to provide pleasure and fun for the American people, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24558623.html?dids=24558623:24558623&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+25%2C+1989...baseball...
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| 1992 | Sep 8, 1992 - By DAVE ANDERSON. FAY VINCENT's reason for resigning yesterday symbolized his reign as a commissioner who put the game ahead of the accountants who had hired him. He did it in the best interests of baseball. "A fight based solely on principle does not justify the disruption when there ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10610F83A580C7B8CDDA00894DA494D81
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| 1995 | Feb 9, 1995 - By DAVE ANDERSON. WHEN baseball was the national pastime instead of the national joke, the President always threw out the first ball. But now baseball has thrown out the first President. The first President caring enough to try to solve one of its labor disputes. ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60611FC395C0C7A8CDDAB0894DD494D81
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| 2001 | Nov 11, 2001 - By ALLEN BARRA. ALL anyone really needs to know about Major League Baseball's announcement last week that it plans to eliminate two so-called small-market teams is that they can't do it without a bitter and probably unwinnable fight with the Players Association. ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D13FB3F5C0C728DDDA80994D9404482
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| 2002 | Jul 12, 2002 - Can all of Bud's men (the owners) and all of Bud's horses (the players) put baseball back together again? A tie. A stinkin' tie for goodness sake. When fans needed more from baseball, it got less. But that's OK, fans are accustomed to watching baseball take more than it gives. ... www.usatoday.com/sports/comment/zillgitt/2002-07-12-zillgitt.htm
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| 2008 | Mar 14, 2008 - By Stephen Wade, AP Sports Writer. BEIJING — Selling baseball in China won't be easy or cheap. Of course, the rewards in a country with 1.3 billion people could be enormous. Enter Major League Baseball, which worked for years to put together this weekend's two exhibition games in ... www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-03-14-2826335253_x.htm
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| 2009 | Feb 8, 2009 - By Brian Bahr, Getty Images. By Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY. Major League Baseball, which hoped to put an end to the steroid era with its drug-testing program and the commissioned Mitchell Report, instead enters spring training with yet another ominous cloud hovering. ... www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2009-02-08-arod-steroids-cover_N.htm
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