61.   Lewis rejected a two-year contract offer, Rangers general manager Doug Melvin said yesterday.

62.   Many of the terms Caterpillar wants to implement next month are those the company proposed in the December contract offer.

63.   Meanwhile, there is no contract offer on the table and Vaughn is six weeks away from starting what might be his final year with the Red Sox.

64.   Melvin said he would make contract offers to all four before the deadline.

65.   Michael Brooks will surely get a nice contract offer, if not from the Giants then from some other team.

66.   One possible development involves the free-agent outfielder B.J. Surhoff, who has been seeking a guaranteed fourth year in any contract offer from the Mets.

67.   One, led by pilots in Miami, campaigned against an earlier contract offer from the airline.

68.   On Tuesday, Boeing workers in Winnipeg rejected a contract offer by a two-thirds majority, Kennedy said, even though the union executive recommended acceptance.

69.   Once he rejected their contract offer at the All-Star break, the Red Sox figured that slugger Mo Vaughn was headed to free agency no matter what.

70.   Perry reportedly has received contract offers from Utah, Minnesota and Miami, too.