The Year Without a World Series: Major League Baseball and the Road to the 1994 Players Strike Cottrell Robert C.
The Year Without a World Series: Major League Baseball and the Road to the 1994 Players Strike Cottrell Robert C. The 1994 Major League Baseball season promised to be memorable. The Montreal Expos…
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The Year Without a World Series: Major League Baseball and the Road to the 1994 Players Strike Cottrell Robert C.
The 1994 Major League Baseball season promised to be memorable. The Montreal Expos and New York Yankees were delivering remarkable campaigns. Long-standing batting and pitching standards were threatened, including the revered single-season home run record.
The shutdown led to a lockout as well as cancellation of more than 900 regular season games, the scheduled expanded rounds of playoffs, and that year's World Series. In August, acting commissioner Bud Selig called a halt to the season amid the League's latest labor dispute. Like all labor struggles, it was fundamentally about control--of salaries, of players' ability to decide their own fates, and of the game itself.This book chronicles Major League Baseball's turbulent '94 season and its ripple effects.
It highlights earlier labor struggles and the roles performed by individuals from John Montgomery Ward, David Fultz and