Word: lockouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insists. "We have a search committee in progress. But it's hard to say when." A shrewd guess is not until there is a new baseball labor agreement. The owners fear that a new commissioner -- no matter how limited his formal mandate -- would try to avert a spring-training lockout in 1994 as Vincent did in 1980. "The owners have decided that they get along better without a commissioner," theorizes the unrepentant Vincent. "Any commissioner with any strength is going to cause trouble for them." Fans view a charismatic commissioner, like the late Bart Giamatti, as their tribune, the only...
Just over an hour and a half later, my exam completed, I returned to the scene of the lockout. Standing on the steps in front of Claverly, I pondered where next to turn...
...owners' sins. The Cincinnati Reds' Marge Schott scrambled to apologize for slurs against "Jew bastards" and "million-dollar niggers." (Jesse Jackson called the phrases "shots heard around the world" and promised further protests.) The moguls also voted to try renegotiating the players' union contract, though a spring lockout would cripple already ailing attendance. In a horrifying climax, Florida Marlins president Carl Barger suffered an aneurysm during the owners' final meeting and died a few hours later...
More immediately, owners, desperate to restructure the game's player-compensation system, will likely greet the 1993 season with a lockout until a new agreement with the players' union is ratified. A cancellation of the entire season is not out of the question...
...major league teams had earlier "requested" that he leave. Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig took on Vincent's duties. His executive council will select a new commissioner and devise a plan for bargaining with the players' union this winter -- a strategy that could lead to a 1993 spring-training lockout...