Baseball players suggest walkout as last resort against merger

Baseball players suggest walkout as last resort against merger

NAGOYA, Japan - Members of the Japanese baseball players association, a labor union, attend an extraordinary meeting in Nagoya on July 10, reaffirming their opposition to the planned merger between the Orix BlueWave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes with a resolution calling for a possible walkout as the last resort.

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