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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 15. 1997
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League switch is tough call
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Kansas City will have first choice to join the National League next season, and the Milwaukee Brewers will switch leagues if the Royals decline, baseball owners and officials said yesterday.
Detroit will move from the American League East to the AL Central and the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays will take the Tigers' place in the East under the plan, scheduled for a vote today during a telephone conference call. This will create a 16 team NL and a 14-team AL next season.
The Royals, who have been in the AL since they joined the major leagues in 1969, will have until about the end of the month to decide if they want to move to the NL Central. The Brewers have said they would move to the NL Central if the Royals decline, several owners and officials said, all on the condition they not be identified.
"There has been some sentiment on the board to move the National League, but it's not clear cut," said Joe McGuff, one of the Royals' seven directors.
Kansas City has always been an AL city, with the Athletics moving there from Philadelphia before the 1955 season and staying until their move to Oakland following the 1967 season.
Milwaukee was an NL town from 1953, the first season after the Braves moved there from Boston, until 1965, the last year before the franchise moved on to Atlanta.
The Brewers moved to Milwaukee before the 1970 season, having
started their existence the previous year as the Seattle Pilots. Bud Selig, baseball's acting commissioner, led a group that purchased the Pilots in bankruptcy court and is still the Brewers' president.
Owners say these moves are only the first step, and that additional realignment may occur in 1999 and beyond. However, difficult issues in baseball have a tendency of dragging on for years, so this set of moves may determine baseball's setup for the foreseeable future.
Under the plan set to be approved, the AL will maintain a balanced schedule next season, with teams playing each opponent in their division 12 times and teams in other divisions of its league 11 times.
In the NL, teams will play 12 games against divisional opponents and nine games against teams in the other divisions.
The remaining games will be against interleague opponents, with the interleague schedule remaining the same as this year: AL East vs. NL East, AL Central vs. NL Central, and AL West vs. NL West.
Selig, who could not immediately be reached for comment, originally backed a radical realignment plan in which 15 teams would have switched leagues and all divisions would have been recreated on a geographic basis.
That plan stalled because the New
York Mets and Chicago Cubs refused to play in the same leagues as their crosstown rivals, the Yankees and White Sox.
Selig and realignment committee head John Harrington then favored a seven-team realignment, in which the AL's West Coast teams — Anaheim, Oakland and Settle — would have switched to the NL.
But San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan threatened to sue to block that proposal, and the players' association said it would fight the plan, too, fearing the AL would be relegated to second...ss status without national exposure.
Realignment was needed because Tampa Bay and the Arizona Diamondbacks are joining the major leagues next season. Arizona was assigned to the NL West last January, but there was no natural place for the Devil Rays after the Royals refused to move from the AL Central to the AL West.
Owners then assigned Tampa Bay to the AL without designating a division and created the realignment committee. Management officials drew up a provisional schedule that had the Devil Rays in the AL West, a solution that almost no one liked.
Owners also realized that with two 15-team leagues, they would need an interleague game nearly every day to keep teams from having off-days on weekends. Teams preferred to leave the interleague schedule the way it was in 1997, the first year of interleague play, with those games bunched together in three segments.
USC: Shape up or coach ships out
The Associated Press
move forward," the coach said.
"I'm not going to be part of a situation where I let this team slide into the gutter," he said.
LOS ANGELES — Coach John Robinson, calling Southern California a football team in crisis, said he would quit after this season if the Trojans did not improve.
Athletic director Mike Garrett said after the Trojans' 35-7 loss at Arizona State last Saturday that he was sticking with Robinson through this season. The coach's contract extends through the 2001 season.
Robinson said he, Garrett and school president Steven Sample were in concert as far as trying to get the football team back on track.
"Mike Garrett, President Sample and myself will
The Trojans' loss to the Sun Devils was their most lopsided defeat by an unranked team in Robinson's 12 years, and dropped them to 2-3, with two of their losses in Pacific-10 games. Having lost six of their last nine games dating back to last season, they face another team in trouble, Notre Dame, at South Bend, Ind., this weekend.
Asked what the players' mood was, the coach answered,"The team pretty much has been told to shut up and listen. The only real significance now is how they perform."
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