[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 26 (Thursday, February 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1467]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           BASEBALL FANS LOSE

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, greed has won and America and baseball 
fans have lost. Baseball has become just another big faceless 
conglomerate and no longer the national pastime. The owners won't give. 
The players won't give. The White House tried its best. Now it's time 
for the Congress to step up to the plate and not stay in the bleachers.
  Let us support the President and his call for binding arbitration. 
That doesn't mean taking sides between these two Goliaths. This is just 
a dispute about money and the heck with everyone else.
  On behalf of America's fans, we should not stand for this.
  And who will stand for the hot dog vendors and the ushers and the 
concessionaires and all of those who depend on baseball for a job?
  Can we imagine even another summer without baseball? For many of us, 
that is a matter of national security that requires us to intervene.


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