Catherwood LibraryILR School

Responding to yesterday?s Los Angeles Times article suggesting that the Major League Baseball Players Association was considering setting a September 16 deadline for their contract negotiations with management (see yesterday?s WIT), Association executive director Donald Fehr today sent a memo to players informing them that the article was incorrect. While union officials and player representatives have acknowledged that a strike date may eventually need to be set, Fehr made it clear that no date has yet been chosen and no decision made on whether a strike date will even be necessary. Fehr continues to meet with players from all thirty major league teams---yesterday it was the Cincinnati Reds---and negotiations with the owners will resume on Wednesday with sessions also scheduled on Thursday and Friday.