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The Post story, much more colorful than the NYT and LAT front-pagers on the same subject, has the judge comparing the pilots to Mafia extortionists, promising the union that its assets will fit in the "overhead bin of a Piper Cub" after he got through with it, and even pointing out that many of the pilots had learned their trade while in the U.S. armed services.
"Already, [interleague play] has restored one of baseball's grandest traditions: the passion for arguing about the game," observed the Chicago Tribune . Things could be worse: The Los Angeles Times reports that, thanks to the popularization of baseball in Poland, bats have "emerged as a weapon of choice for hooligans, thugs, [and] extortionists."