Baseball Talks Resume

On the eve of the World Series, baseball labor talks resumed in New York after a two-month break.

Management negotiator Randy Levine, contending with demands from hard-liners among the owners, made several new proposals to union head Donald Fehr dealing with matters such as service time and the players’ desire that a new agreement contain an option year in 2001.

“Randy made a number of suggestions that if we bought into them would be a fundamental rearrangement of the deal,” Fehr said. “We said we’re not prepared to do that.”