Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cherish the moment, bleacher bums, for this April's budding of baseball may be our final frolic in the sun. Next year there might not be baseball at all, if the owners stick to their resolve not to open the spring-training camps unless the players agree to hold the...
-- Are the new National League expansion franchises, the Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins, as hapless as the 1962 New York Mets? (Not unless the Rockies persuade Marvelous Marv Throneberry to make a comeback.)
Expansion is that rare issue that unites labor and management: the union imagines 50 more jobs for fringe major-leaguers, and the owners picture two more syndicates of rich investors anteing up around $100 million each to join the most exclusive club in America. With the new Colorado Rockies likely...
First will come the channel bonanza: a simple expansion of today's cable world in which more and more stations and networks will become available on your box. Yet even 500 points of light will not necessarily mean a sudden bounty of new home entertainment. "There isn't an inexhaustible...
Opposing expansion is not anti-capitalist and un-American. On the contrary, it's un-American to let a national treasure be devalued right in front of our noses. Some say expansion is good because it gives people like Florida Marlin Scott Pose a shot at being a major league...