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Unless something unforeseen or unthinkable happens, Cal Ripken, the 35-year-old shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles, will play in his 2,131st straight game on Sept. 6, against the California Angels in Oriole Park at Camden Yards. That will break the record set by Lou Gehrig, the first baseman...
Baseball fans are left with a season of 144 games per club, instead of the usual 162; players will find much less demand for their services, and some small-market teams, like the Expos and Kansas City Royals, have already upset the competitive balance by conducting clearance sales. Says Paul...
But if the Owners manage to field 28 teams of scabs (or 26, if the Blue Jays and Orioles rebel), they will play. They are confident they can fill the seats and play a season, and I suspect their confidence is not ill-founded.
Even before the owners ousted Fay Vincent as baseball commissioner in September 1992, they had long been prepping for a beanball war with the players. Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig -- who has turned the title "interim commissioner" into a seemingly lifetime appointment -- makes no secret of keeping the commissioner's...
The results certainly weren't a surprise, but the margins of victory were. In the American League, Molitor received eight of the 14 votes, the White Sox's Frank Thomas got three, and Blue Jays Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar and Ranger Will Clark got one each. Tiger skipper Sparky...