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...Baseball Strike. Say it ain't so. A labor squabble accomplished what the Depression, two World Wars and an earthquake couldn't: it snuffed out the World Series. The strike killed a season of white-hot pennant races and on- the-diamond superlatives (Ken Griffey Jr. and Matt Williams were making credible runs at Ruth's home-run record; Tony Gwynn aimed to join Ted Williams in the .400 club). It also proved the only stat that baseball's millionaire players and multimillionaire owners really care about is the bottom line...
...expensive sections or in the very expensive sections. Baseball, if it ever gets under way in 1995, may suffer from depressed attendance. That will become clear only when moral indignation is confronted by the desire to hunker along the third-base line in the heat of a pennant race...
...stores, not a city) celebrates with a one-day sale. Wednesday: Giants and Dragons still neck and neck. Thursday: A heart stopper. As their pitching collapses, the Giants lose to the Yakult Swallows 6-2. One astrologer, noting the position of Mars, sees the Giants victorious in Saturday's pennant-deciding showdown with the Dragons. Saturday: Giants...
Most of baseball's fans were forced, on this, what would have been the final stretch of a phenomenal pennant race, watching Ken Burns's epic "Baseball." Sorry, but as much as I enjoyed the documentary, I would much rather have seen the Indians and White Sox duke it out for first...
...course, life doesn't stop for the pennant race. And I was more than a little interested in seeing my first real girlfriend off to college--to Williams, actually--as we met for one final time before we would split...