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Big Winners: Yankees and Yankees
To follow up his multipart-lastin', still photograph-lingerin', makes-you-wish-there-were-commercial-interruptions documentary, The Civil War, filmmaker Ken Burns has produced another exhaustive—and exhausting—study of young men in flannel uniforms. Here is our somewhat more concise comparison of these two quintessentially American subjects.
Category	Civil War	Baseball
ABNER DOUBLEDAY	The young general from New York commanded a unit of the Union forces at Gettysburg	The war hero is hailed as the inventor of baseball, even though he had nothing to do with the game
KENNESAW /KENESAW MOUNTAIN	Site of a major Confederate victory in Georgia	Stubborn, bigoted commissioner Landis who "saved baseball" after Black Sox scandal
FINEST MOMENT BY A JACKSON	Brilliant Shenandoah Valley campaign staged by Southern General Stonewall	Three dame 6 dingers in 1977 World Series by Yankee slugger Reggie
REVOLUTIONARY TRACT	Emancipation Proclamation	Ball Four
HEROIC LOSER	Robert E. Lee	Walter Johnson
SEMINAL PRESIDENTIAL EVENT IN NATION'S CAPITAL	Lincoln assassinated at Ford's Theatre, April 14, 1865	Taft throws out first first pitch at National Park, April 14, 1910
LEGENDARY BONER	Jeb Stuart fails to keep Lee apprised of Union troop movements at Gettysburg	Fred Merkle fails to touch second base at the Polo Grounds
GEORGIA VILLAINY	The horrible conditions at the Confederate-run prison in Andersonville	The flashing spikes of Ty Cobb
DESTROYED ATLANTA	Sherman 's march	Winfield's double
ORATORICAL HIGHLIGHT	Lincoln's Gettysburg Address	Lou Gehrig 's farewell address
HARD-DRINKING GENERAL	Ulysses S. Grant	Billy Martin
LOVABLE GEEZER	Corpulent Union General Winfleld Scott	Casey Stengel
HAPLESS UNIT	The Union Army of the Potomac before Grant took over	The '62 Mets
HEROIC FAREWELL	Lee 's graceful surrender at Appomattox	Ted Williams 's homer in final at bat
LENGTH OF TIME NEEDED FOR BURNS TO ENCAPSULATE HISTORY OF	11 hours	18 1/2 hours

Dress Code

MEMO TO the NFL : Keep the throwback uniforms. They look great.

Now, how about a throwback to old ticket prices?

Taking It to the Hill

It's a disconcerting thought, but after weeks of stalemated nonnegotiations between baseball owners and striking players, the game's best hope for an end to the walkout may lie with the U.S. Congress . On Aug. 18, six days after the players went out on strike, Rep. Mike Synar (D., Okla. ) introduced a bill that is drawing increasing support across the political spectrum. The 363-word bill, which bears the title "Baseball Fans and Communities Protection Act of 1994," would apply antitrust laws to baseball in instances in which "any party that has been subject to an agreement between the owners of major league baseball and the labor organization representing the players" imposes any "unilateral terms or conditions."

To put it more simply: Under the Synar bill baseball players would enjoy the same privileges as their NFL and NBA counterparts. For instance, if the owners attempt to impose a salary cap—which they could do as early as next month—the players could take them to court, leading to the same sort of litigation and bargaining that in 1993 produced labor peace and a seven-year contract in the NFL .

Testifying before a House subcommittee last week, players' union chief Don Fehr and Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Orel Hershiser both insisted that passage of the bill would end the strike. "The players will return to the field; it is a promise," said Hershiser.

Meanwhile, acting commissioner Bud Selig and his team of lobbyists are working hard to kill Synar's proposal. They face an uphill battle. The owners may be able to postpone a vote on the bill before Congress adjourns for the year, but with Rep. Jack Brooks (D., Texas ), one of the most powerful figures on Capitol Hill , pushing for passage—along with such unusual senatorial allies as the conservative Orrin Hatch (R., Utah ) and the liberal Howard Metzenbaum (D., Ohio)—the Synar bill appears almost certain to become law before next season.

In a packed hearing room last week, Brooks warned Selig that the owners "may be underestimating Congress's ability to respond." Reminding Selig that a new Congress will begin its work in January, well before the opening of spring training, Brooks made it clear how little support the owners enjoy on the Hill in the wake of the strike. "Don't think for a moment," he said, "that Congress will forget the sorry spectacle we have witnessed in the summer of 1994."

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