EVERY ROSENTRAUB HAS ITS THORN: STOP C CALLS HIM "HIRED GUN"

          Mark Rosentraub, Associate Dean of Indiana Univ.'s
     School of Public and Environmental Affairs, was paid by MLB
     to produce a 23-page economic report on the proposed Padres
     stadium, and has announced his support of the plan,
     according to Philip LaVelle of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. 
     Rosentraub's support of Proposition C led "Stop C" Funding
     Chair Robert Simmons to call him a "hired gun who is
     glossing over the serious risks to taxpayers."  Simmons
     noted that Rosentraub has often been a critic of public
     financing of sports facilities.  But Rosentraub said, "This
     is a redevelopment deal, with two owners (majority owner
     John Moores and team president Larry Lucchino) leading the
     charge to reform baseball."  Rosentraub admitted that the
     "approximately" $13,000, plus travel, he was paid by MLB for
     the study will "end up in my pocket. ... But it's the cost
     of doing the study" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 10/15).
          NO TALKS: Padres Owner John Moores, responding to a 
     report that the team has bought land in VA about a possible
     relocation: "Absolutely untrue.  We haven't bought anything,
     haven't sent anyone there, haven't called anyone.  There's
     been absolutely no discussion" (BASEBALL WEEKLY, 10/14).