"There is a good chance to this point that we are not going to be playing in 1995," said Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Bob Scanlan, after the first of three days of meetings Monday between players which drew 78 big leaguers.
"We will never give in to the owners even if it means sitting out next year, and maybe never playing again," Scanlan said.
Meanwhile, Richard Ravitch, who has been replaced as chief labor negotiator for the major league baseball owners but whose salary-cap proposal they may soon implement, has said he will not seek an extension when his contract expires Dec. 31. Ravitch was hired at $750,000 a year in November 1991 to help develop a new economic system. He said it was never his intention to stay in baseball after his contract ended.
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