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MLB NEWS & NOTES: "MONEYLINE" REVIEWS MLB THREE WEEKS OUT

          The state of MLB was examined in a report by CNN's Sean
     Callebs on "Moneyline."  Callebs noted MLB "owners are still
     leaning" on MLBE CEO Greg Murphy, although Murphy signed a
     $50M deal with Pepsi, and "owners are fighting individually
     for the same deals Murphy is charged with setting up."  Game
     attendance is up, "if only 1%, from last season," while TV
     ratings "remain flat."  Callebs: "Nielsen says compared to
     last season, some are up, others are down, prompting more
     than a few sports marketers to say that if baseball
     blossoms, it's in spite of its leadership" (CNN, 4/21).
          IN THE GAP: CRAIN'S NEW YORK BUSINESS notes that MLB
     Player Relations Committee Exec Randy Levine "could be back"
     at NYC's City Hall "as deputy mayor for economic development
     by the beginning of May" (CRAIN'S NEW YORK BUSINESS, 4/21).
     ...Attendance over the weekend for the Cardinals-Padres
     series in Aloha Stadium in Hawaii was 37,382 for Saturday's
     doubleheader and 40,050 for Sunday's single game.  Padres
     CEO Larry Lucchino: "Our goal was to have 40,000 for each
     game" (Honolulu STAR-BULLETIN, 4/21).  In San Diego, Nick
     Canepa, on Padres CEO Larry Lucchino: "In the dark room that
     baseball has become through labor strife and other internal
     problems, it can be said Lucchino has become the game's
     brightest light, its one true visionary" (SAN DIEGO UNION-
     TRIBUNE, 4/21)....In Philadelphia, Jayson Stark: "Retiring
     Jackie Robinson's No. 42 -- first proposed by NL President
     Leonard Coleman -- is one of the most inspired things
     baseball has ever done" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 4/20).  In
     Boston, Peter Gammons called the Robinson celebration "an
     eloquent night for baseball, with President Clinton and Bud
     Selig both rising to the moment."  He also noted that "a lot
     of umpires want to rid their union of the shameless Richie
     Phillips, who showed up at the ESPN booth Tuesday night and
     wanted to go on air with a statement about Jackie Robinson"
     (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/20).   

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