PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Major League Baseball and its players’ union will begin contract talks soon with none of the rancor and lockout threats that are plaguing the NFL and NBA.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig offered a rosy picture of the economics of the coming seasons on Thursday and praised the “constructive relationship” that his staff has formed with the union.
Selig, speaking after a joint meeting of owners and general managers, said that nobody, himself included, would have predicted the 16 years of labor peace that baseball has experienced after eight work stoppages.
He said the anger that pervaded labor issues has disappeared over the last five or 10 years.
