41.   If he wants to Svengali the players union, he now has all the time in the world to entrance them.

42.   If that happens, players union representative Donald Fehr said players might end their walkout and try to return to work.

43.   Important issues face the league as it gathers here for the All-Star Game expansion and the ongoing collective bargaining agreement negotiations with the players union foremost among them.

44.   In addition to establishing maximum salary limits, both the league and the players union agreed to more stringent rules regarding player movement.

45.   In the baseball strike, the players union filed the charge.

46.   In the month since the expiration of the old collective bargaining agreement with the players union, nothing of substance has been done to negotiate a new one.

47.   In two weeks, the league almost certainly will lock its doors and cease to do business while it haggles with the players union over a division of profits.

48.   Instead of accepting responsibility for his actions by simply paying the fine, Leaf filed a grievance with the help of the players union.

49.   It caused a splintering of the players union and the impasse.

50.   It is an exemption enjoyed by no other sports league in America, and it prevents the players union from taking their grievances to court.