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MLB HOPES TWINS SITUATION GETS RESOLVED SO TEAM CAN STAY PUT

          MLB's Ownership Committee and Executive Council heard
     status reports on the Twins' situation at their meetings in
     Phoenix yesterday from team President Jerry Bell, Owner Carl
     Pohlad and a team of MLB lawyers who visited MN on a fact-
     finding mission last month, according to Jay Weiner of the
     Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE.  No actions were taken and no
     timetable was set.  Afterward, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig
     "wasn't alone in sending signals" that MLB was "inviting the
     Minnesota Legislature to take new action on a Twins stadium
     when it convenes next week.  Any notion that significant
     deadlines have passed was cast aside."  Selig, asked if the
     Twins' sale to NC business exec Don Beaver was being
     "stymied" because of a lack of public support for a new
     ballpark in NC: "The Minnesota situation needs to be solved
     in Minnesota.  Whatever the polls say in North Carolina are,
     frankly, irrelevant" (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 1/15). 
          FROM NC: In Charlotte, Foon Rhee reports that MLB
     owners sent "mixed signals" at the meetings: "Yes, they
     believe North Carolina and baseball would be a great
     marriage.  But they don't want to divorce Minnesota too
     quickly, either" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 1/15).

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