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Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our…
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The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new…
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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming…
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability…
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next…
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago…
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the…
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Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on…
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within…
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Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates…
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them…
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