Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-02

total Of Is transactions, major
and minor, involving 35 players
during the week.
The White Sox' proposal for
an inter-league trading period
in mid-June, turned down by
both majors separately Friday,
was rejected at the joint ses-
sion.
1.-THE commissioner would
have voted mo- in any case,"I
said Commissioner Ford Prick
at a news conference. ut
doesn't make sense. We would
be opening ourselves to all
sorts Of criticism by letting a
contender dip into the last
place club in the other league
in mid-season."
Prick said the All-Star game
was to have been played in a |
National League City this year
but the league waived its rights
to 1t in order to be sure to get
the 1864 game during the
Worlds Fair at the Nets new
stadium in Flushing Meadows.
Prick Cites Invitation
II would like to get one thing
right" Prick said. The size of
the park never was mentioned
by the players when we agreed
to give them 95 per cent of the
gate and television receipts in
stead Of so per cent. Gabe Paul,
president of the Cleveland
Club, rose TO his feet and IN
vited us to Cleveland. That
was it."
Prick said he was not aware
OF what had tranSpired at the
American League meeting Fri
day when Calvin Griffith, Min
nesota owner, was reported to
have made a strong pitch for
the game. The Minnesota park
seats about 10000. Cleveland
seats 10000. Only one game
will be played next year under
the new agreement with the
players.
The commissioner was en-
thusiaStic about the new player
development contract that will
replace the old outright sub
sidy Of $850,000 to the minors.
However. he estimated it might
cost as much as 81 million.
Subsidy is Raped
IAN outright subsidy is an
invitation to mediocrity," Prick
said. This new contract rec
ognizes the obligation of the
majors who want to develop
players and. on the other hand,
the obligation of the minor
league club that wants to op-
crate. If a big league team
wants to pay a boy $4,000 a |
month, the big league club is
stuck with paying most of it.
On the other hand, if a league
wants to operate in Saskatche-
wan and China, it is the
leagues business and they are
stuck with it,"
Prick said the big league
club would pay spring training
costs, transportation to the
minor league city, the first
$500 of a managers salary
and all player salaries over set
limits-over $500 per man per
month in class triple A, $3.50
in class double A, and $50 in
class A.
I'm effect, it means that the
big league club says, I'VE give
you the players, train them and
pay part of their salary" Prick
said. IF a man cannot make
a success, than the town doesn't
deserve baseball"
Prick said the player develop
ment committee would be con-
tinued to work out bugs in the
new deal and also the COM
mittee working on the first
year draft. The majors passed
amendments tightening up the
first-year draft rule in an at
tempt to cut the payments of
big bonus money to untried
schoolboys.
George Weiss. president of
the Nets, said the club expect
ed to take a look at Burright. a
second baseman vino hit .205
for the Dodgers. and examine
the possibility of playing him at
shortstop. Hardness, IS, hit .258
with the Dodgers last year.
The Dodgers. who traded
Pitcher Stan williams to the
Yankees for Moose Skowron
earlier in the week, acquired
Miller. a $l25,000 expansion
draftee by the Nets from st.
Louis last year. Miller had a
LIP record, winning his last
start on the next-to-last day
of the season.
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