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Would You Believe "Batman" at work? How about the little old bat maker? Either way that is what RawlingsAdirondack employee Bill Steele is doing. Steele is tooling a bat on a lathe inside the company’s 31-foot long "Bat Mobile," a trailer equipped to produce bats in 30 minutes

Owners to meet as negotiations go on

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) It’s only coincidental, one baseball executive insisted, but major league club owners meet here today, one day before negotiators resume talks aimed at arriving at a new basic agreement amid a strike threat by the players. Ray Grebey, chief negotiator for the club owners, and Marvin Miller, executive director of the Players Association, will be meeting for the first time in

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new or anticipated moves by the owners, but briefly reviewed what Grebey regarded as progress made at the most recent session last week. It also appealed to players to open the baseball season on time whether or not an agreement has been reached “Baseball played in 1976 while still negotiating a new basic agreement,” Grebey said. “Basketball has done the same thing this season and football

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Young players to seed Dallas team

BvALEXSACHARE AP Sports Writer Wouldn’t it be fun to be able to start a pro basktball team from scratch, to pluck players off pro rosters or from the college ranks and put together your own team? Rick Sund is getting to live out that sports fantasy. He’s the player personnel director for Dallas’ expansion franchise that will be joining the National Basketball Association next season, and he’s been a busy man lately. “I’ve seen about as many players and teams as I possibly can,” said Sund, who learned his job under Wayne Embry with the Milwaukee Bucks in the ’7os before being chosen for the Dallas job by Norm Sonju, the man who put together the group of 24 investors who put up sl2 million for the franchise. “That’s why I haven’t moved from Milwaukee yet,” Sund added. “I’ve been able to catch pro teams when they come into Milwaukee or Chicago, and I’m near big colleges like Marquette, DePaul, Notre Dame and the Big Ten schools. But even with that, I’ve done my

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share of traveling, too.” NBA rosters will be frozen at the end of the season and each team will be allowed to protect eight players from the expansion pool. Sund will get the list of available players in midMay, and on May 28 he’ll announce Dallas’ selection of one veteran from each of the 22 NBA teams. What kind of players is Sund looking for? “We really want to concentrate on getting good character people, from good backgrounds," he replied. “We want people who will accept the fact that for a couple of years we’ll be struggling. We plan to go the youth route, building our team year by year through the draft. We may struggle for a while, but we feel that’s the only way to go. With each team protecting eight players, Sund knows the pickings may be slim. But he’s hoping to find some diamonds in the rough. In the June 10 college draft, Dallas will pick 11th. “I think we’ll get a quality player,” said Sund. “In this year’s draft, there are about a dozen really

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good players. But once you get past Joe Barry Carroll and Darrell Griffith, they’re pretty even. No. 11 may be just as good as N 0.5. We feel we’ll get somebody we can use to build for the future." Since the Dallas team figures to lose big for at least its first year or two, it should then find itself in prime drafting position. Unlike the Jazz, who traded away their high picks in their early years for name players like Pete Maravich and Gail Goodrich, Sund says Dallas will keep the picks and shun the players with the big reputations. The Dallas team has yet to name a coach, although Sund says he’s worked up a tentative list of 15 prospects. Finally, Sund was asked what the philosophy of the new Dallas franchise would be. “We want to go within the team concept,” he said. “The people that are winning in the NBA are doing it with chemistry, with players who work together in a team concept. That’s what we re looking for.”

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