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Leagues and Governing Bodies

AFTER IRELAND, GEORGE MITCHELL'S NEW STUDY IS MLB ECONOMICS

          MLB owners are meetings in Carlsbad, CA, and the
     following lists some highlights of Wednesday's first day:   
          I AM HENRY THE OWNER I AM: MLB owners voted unanimously
     to approve the sale of the Marlins to FL commodities trader
     John Henry.  Henry will pay Wayne Huizenga $150M for the
     team and $8M in repairs to Pro Player Stadium -- $63M "more
     than Huizenga paid MLB for the rights" to the '93 expansion
     team.  In Miami, Mike Phillips writes that Huizenga gave an
     "emotional" farewell speech (MIAMI HERALD, 1/14).
          ECONOMICS TASK FORCE CREATED: MLB Commissioner Bud
     Selig named former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George
     Mitchell, former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, Yale
     President Richard Levin and TV commentator & Newsweek
     columnist George Will to a "Blue Ribbon Task Force on
     Baseball Economics."  The group will examine MLB's economic
     structure and payroll disparity (WASHINGTON POST, 1/14). 
     Meanwhile, Padres President Larry Lucchino called MLB's
     current CBA "an abject failure."  Lucchino: "Revenue sharing
     (among clubs) is inadequate, the luxury cap (designed to
     stem payrolls) is a joke and the competitive imbalance has
     been exacerbated" (Ross Newhan, L.A. TIMES, 1/13). 
          NOTES: Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner was replaced
     on MLB's Exec Council by Mariners Chair John Ellis (NEWSDAY,
     1/14)....Red Sox CEO John Harrington, in charge of MLB
     realignment, said that the league "put off" realignment for
     "at least a year" because of "questions with the future
     location" of the Expos, Twins and A's (USA TODAY, 1/14).

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