![]() ![]() Many baseball owners feel that TV is harmful to their gate. When and if their opposition folds up, it is expected that baseball owners generally will try to make up the share of the receipts to be given to visiting clubs by asking more for their broadcasting rights. Ford Frick, the head of the National League, has already stated that Saigh is within his rights. Strength of Saigh’s argument, in leading the fight, is his threat to refuse to have the Cards televised when they appear in other cities unless they get a cut of the home team’s TV take. Lane and Veeck, however, have not had the same success as yet in the American League. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, agreed to give a portion of his home radio and TV receipts to the Cards and to the Cincinnati Reds when those clubs appear in Chicago. Saigh yesterday (6) won an imposing victory when Philip K. ![]() Louis Browns and Frank Lane, general manager of the Chicago White Sox, on one hand, aad most of the others in the two leagues, on the other. Louis Cardinals, Bill Veeck, head of the St. The Donnybrook is being waged by Fred Saigh Jr, owner of the St. The cost of sponsoring major league baseball telecasts, already inflationary, may go to prohibitive proportions as a result of the battle being fought among baseball owners this week in Phoenix. Devon Young sent this article from a Dec. ![]()
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