Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1982 Page: 6 of 6
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UNIVERSITY PRESS November 5,1982*6
Sportsline
Kuhn firing
questionable
By MIKE McDEVITT
UP Sports Editor
You might be able to excuse major league
baseball’s owners for their vindictive behavior if
they hadn’t just enjoyed one of the finest seasons in
the history of the game.
The game’s popularity exploded this year, both
financially and at the turnstiles, and it seems that
America had forgiven all after the 1981 baseball
strike.
The owners evidently don’t feel that way.
After having one of the most exciting finishes in re-
cent years, they have found it necessary to eliminate
the very commisioner that helped resolve last year’s
baseball strike.
Bowie Kuhn made a major-league mistake when he
took his title of Commissioner of Baseball to heart.
Kuhn forgot that his paycheck came from the
owners, instead concentrating on resolving the strike
that had alienated the country against the sport.
Kuhn did bring baseball back to America in 1981.
But he overlooked the fact that many of the men who
own sports teams don’t accept defeat easily. This is
true, whether it comes on the playing field or at the
negotiating tables. _____•£
The owners who voted not to renew Kuhn’s con-
tract claimed that this was not a vote against Kuhn
himself. They said that the position of commissioner
itself was in need of re-evaluation.
Those owners most vocal about replacing Kuhn are
also the most unsure about his replacement. Those
who supported him feel that any successor would see
the abuse heaped on Kuhn and reconsider their
desire for the position.
While Kuhn’s ouster suprised no one in or out of
baseball, it did hurt the credibility of a sport that had
just seemed to recover from the embarrassment of
last season’s strike.
While the NFL strike enters its seventh week, the
last thing baseball needed was to call to attention last
year’s difficulties.
It seems unfortunate, in the glow of one of
baseball’s finest seasons, that the petty indignities,
whether real or imagined, suffered by some of the
owners, can adversely affect the ultimate well-being
of all interested in major-league baseball.
Bowie Kuhn did his best, not to protect the profit
margins of the owners, but to prevent outrageous
behavior which might be detrimental to baseball.
What he forgot was that many of those behaving the
most outrageously were also the men who would
ultimately decide his fate.
It can be a very difficult test of an individual’s
ideals to slap the knuckles of the same hand that
signs your paycheck.
Kuhn placed himself above that.
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Tisdale, John. Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1982, newspaper, November 5, 1982; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499712/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.