Finally, Some Good News : Baseball: End of the strike and a return to the playing field signals new beginning for both sides.

Satellite trucks piled up on the road in front. Cameras blocked a hotel corridor where traffic at times was as heavy as the airport next door. Curious onlookers dropped their luggage and stopped to gawk.

There’s Selig. There’s Reinsdorf. Isn’t that MacPhail? That’s Angelos, the guy who refused to use replacements. Hello, Marge. Where’s George?

Baseball owners, powerful, influential and wealthy men and women, huddled in the same ballroom Sunday, but they didn’t even vote on a lockout. They didn’t resolve the major issues that have divided the game since last August.

They did, however, make sure that some real baseball will be played this season when they accepted the union’s offer to end the strike and return to the field.

“We still got to have a deal. The best one is a negotiated deal,” said Jerry McMorris of the Colorado Rockies.

“We hope we can rebuild credibility with our fans and put this behind us,” he said.

Who was the winner?

‘I didn’t see any winners, yet,” he replied.

Selig, the Brewers’ owner and the sport’s acting commissioner, called it the “most viable solution.”

“I don’t regard it as a surrender,” he said in response to a question. “The players were on strike. They made an unconditional offer to come back and we accepted that offer,” he insisted.

Selig said owners and players will continue to work on the labor problems.

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