MLB JOINT ANTITRUST PROPOSAL HAS EXEC COUNCIL BACKING

          MLB's Exec Council has approved terms for proposed
     legislation limiting MLB's 75-year-old exemption from
     federal antitrust laws, according to Mark Maske of the
     WASHINGTON POST.  MLB sources said that last week at the
     owners' meetings in Philadelphia, the Council approved a
     proposal to lobby Congress to "limit -- but not repeal --
     the exemption."  The proposal would "strip" the owners of
     their exemption as it relates to labor relations with the
     players, and but "would leave it intact" as it relates to
     franchise shifts, the minor leagues and broadcasting. 
     Maske's sources also said that the owners have asked members
     of the Senate Judiciary Committee "to listen to concerns"
     being raised by minor league reps about the "possible
     effects of the legislation" (WASHINGTON POST, 6/19).