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FRANCHISE NOTES

          News Corp. Chair Rupert Murdoch is the cover story of
     BARRON's under the header, "King Of Sports."  Michael
     Santoli writes that Fox Sports Net, worth "perhaps" $4B, is
     "growing fast," and in the U.S., it "looks especially
     promising" (BARRON'S, 9/21 issue)....New Devil Rays Senior
     VP/Marketing Mike Veeck, on his reputation for throwing
     "off-the-wall" promotions and how that may play in the
     majors: "I think you do tone it down some in terms of making
     sure nothing you do intrudes on the game itself.  We've got
     something here you don't have in the minor leagues and
     that's the personalities" (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 9/19)....In
     Boston, Peter Gammons reported that if the Padres ballpark
     referendum for a new stadium fails, the "feeling in
     baseball" is that the Padres "will try to beat" the Expos to
     Washington, DC, in 2000 (BOSTON GLOBE, 9/20)....MLB
     Commissioner Bud Selig said that Expos President Claude
     Brochu did not request permission to talk to prospective
     owners during the recent league meetings in Milwaukee. 
     Selig: "The subject never came up, either privately or in
     the executive committee" (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 9/22).

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