Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Big League Meetings
tomorrow Will Hear
Demands Of Players
BY the Asseeiated Press


CINCINNATI, July 11.--Majol
league players will demand q
higher minimum salary, easing
Of the rules governing winter
baseball and better control oil
night games at their meeting with
the owners on the eve of the ALL
Star game here Tuesday.
Also on the agenda at the ma
jor league meetings are proposals
for rules governing franchise
shifts. radio and television, spring
training and reduction in player
personnel.
Although Bill Veeck insists he
will not demand that his Browns
be shifted to Baltimore "at once
because of poor attendance In st
Louis. an informed source said
the owners were fully prepared
to discuss the possibility of such
q move in 1854.
The majors. at the inSistence OF
Commissioner Ford Prick. are
certain to pass q regulation speci-
flying exact dateS-from October
/ to December las the only
period during which major league
franchises can be moved.
Last-Minute Transfers Out.
1--WE must make that official"
Prick said. 1--WE want no more
last-minute Milwaukee trans
fers.'"
The players demand for q
wage increase came to light re-
Gently when Allie Reynolds, star
pitcher of the Yankees and
player representative of the
American League, disclosed he
would seek to have the minimum
salary of $1,000 increased to
$4,000.
Bracketed with this fight for
a higher minimum wage is a de-
mand for changing the rules
governing winter baseball, no
tably that which barred players
born in the United States.
The present rule holds that
any player who has been on a
major league clubs roster for
more than As days is barred
from playing during the off sea-
son in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mex
leo, Venezuela, Panama and
other Latin American locales un-
less the player is native of
that area.
Want Winter Ball Opened.
Players born in the United
States regard that as discrimi-
natory, according to Reynolds.
I'VE want winter ball opened to
all major leaguers," Reynolds
said.
A club official said he felt sure
the owners would not agree to
such a proposal but he said they
might amend the rule permitting
all players with less than 60 days
in the majors to play winter bali.
The agenda also includes a
proposal, submitted by the Mil
waukee club, to change the re-
quirement for a franchise trans
fer to National League club
from a unanimous vote to three
fourths of the clubs, the same as
the American League regulation.
1t also was understood that the
proposal to cut major league &C
tive rosters from rs to % players
will come up. The proposal orig
inally was introduced at the
league meetings in Phoenix last
year but was voted down.
Spring Training Restriction
Also to be discussed will be a
proposal to restrict the period
OF training prior to the playing
OF the first spring exhibition
games.
At present. batterymen are
asked TO report during the last
week of February with the reg
ulars ordered to arrive in camp
not later than March /.
A television committee, named
in Phoenix last December to ex-
plore the radio and television
problem. will make a report of
its findings to the owners at the
meeting.
I'VE have no rules about tele-
vision and radio" Prick said,
because we have been warned
by the Federal authorities that
such rules would mean collision.
We are not DESTROYS of scrapping
all television receivers, insofar
as baseball is concerned. But
baseball seeks the right to regu-
late radio and television, rea-
sonably. We must be allowed to
keep major TV and radio out of
minor league cities when the
nome clubs are plavinp