Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the future so bright, the owners call a lockout. I say, let the league fold. These idiots aren't even smart enough to take advantage of the position they are in. Baseball owners at least know that the fans will always come back...
...owners should have conceded what was necessary to let them keep playing, at least for the rest of the season. A lockout at the beginning of a season hurts the game far less than truncation of season is one of the best ever. Baseball didn't die. It was just drugged into a back into its come by the owners...
...former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...
Selig would not speculate on whether theplayers would agree, but he assures fans, "therewill be no lockout this year...
...Cambridge Department of Health and Hospitals had originally pushed for an outright ban on cigarette vending machines in Cambridge but agreed to the lockout device provision as a compromise with the city council...