Owners To Go Over Plans

Baseball owners head to a Chicago suburb today for a meeting that acting commissioner Bud Selig won’t acknowledge is taking place.

The purpose of the meeting, according to several owners and officials, is to begin to formulate a new labor strategy.

“I don’t know if this will wind up being a strategy session or whether final action will be taken,” Colorado Rockies chairman Jerry McMorris said Tuesday. “I just want to look at all of our options tomorrow before I’m in a position to decide what to do next. There’s been conjecture about what should be done.”

Most owners and officials spoke about the meeting only on the condition they not be identified. Selig hoped the session in Itasca, Ill., would remain secret.