Donald fehr ruined baseball cards
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Fleer Corp. v. Topps Manduction Gum, Inc., 501 F. Supp. 485 (E.D. Pa. 1980)
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TOPPS CHEWING Chew, INC. remarkable Major Corresponding item Baseball Players' Association.
United States Sector Court, Liken. D. Pennsylvania.
*486*487*488*489 Matthew Strickler, Linda S. Martin, Parliamentarian J. Explorer, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.
Sidney Harris, General, D. C., for Topps.
Donald Fehr, Fresh York Megalopolis, for Main League Ballgame Players Assoc.
FINDINGS OF Certainty AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
NEWCOMER, District Judge.
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Bud Selig, Donald Fehr’s neglect helped ruin Hall of Fame
Two business partners are having lunch at a swanky Midtown restaurant when one suddenly erupts, “I think I left the safe open!”
His partner places a reassuring hand on his arm and calmly says, “What are you worried about? We’re both here.”
And that, baseball fans, is why election to the Hall of Fame has become an annual test of individual conscience over legit and illegitimate achievement.
The antagonists in this case remain former MLB commissioner and fast-tracked Hall of Famer Bud Selig, and ex-MLBPA boss Donald Fehr — natural business enemies who, unless they were blind, determined to keep the obvious their little secret.
So the abruptly mass-muscled, sudden-slugger steroid users operated via a see/say-no-evil silence that would allow the Sammy Sosas, Barry Bondses and Mark McGwires to feed MLB’s bottom lines via ticket sales, TV contracts, ad revenues, etc.
While those in charge saw and said nothing about suddenly swollen arms, heads and slugging stats among sudden Supermen, did it ever dawn on them that the cover on this eventually had to be blown to bits?
But they pretended to be the last to see what few could miss. They chose to do lasting, historic harm to basebal
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NHL Lockout: Donald Fehr has avoided the mistakes of former NHLPA head Bob Goodenow
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When I write that NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr has largely avoided the missteps of former players’ association boss Bob Goodenow, the reaction for many will undoubtedly be, ‘yes, but he’s made all new ones.’ While that may or may not be the case, the differences between the two – both in leadership style and in how they have handled lockout negotiations – are striking.
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