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...long as baseball is played -- was chosen as the strike date by a player vote to give the union maximum leverage. As employees, the players had already received more than two-thirds of their 1994 salaries. But the owners earn almost all their national-TV revenues during the September pennant races and the October postseason. (The broadcast rights to the play-offs and the World Series alone were projected to bring in $180 million.) The owners had just launched their experimental Baseball Network on ABC and NBC with the mid-July All-Star Game. Early TV ratings were higher than...
...point spectators can watch the wondrously gifted Jay Payton's attempt to match Ted Williams' feat of batting .400 for an entire season. Williams was the last major leaguer to do so, in 1941, finishing at .406. Payton has a .403 batting average as the Pittsfield Mets begin their pennant-stretch run. He's facing pitchers from the minors, sure -- but the lighting around the New York-Penn circuit is bush league too, giving the pitchers an edge. In addition, Payton and every other hitter at Wahconah has to deal with a delightful idiosyncrasy. In 1919 Wahconah was laid...
...what a season! On the day the strike date was announced, 12 teams were thinking pennant, in first place or fewer than three games out. That's partly because the majors expanded this year from four divisions to six, but it also means there was July joy in Cleveland and Oakland and Houston and Colorado...
...Forgo a strike, because of Junior, and because of all your colleagues who are flirting with immortality. Forgo it because there's pennant fever in 12 cities, and because this summer the field of dreams seems so sweet. If you must, set a strike date for Oct. 3, the day after the regular season ends; with play-off money at stake, we'll bet it would be settled in no time. But for now, and for once, think of the sport before the business. Prove to the fans that you treasure their loyalty as much as their revenue. Do what...
...wisdom not vouchsafed to the creators of Angels in the Outfield, a remake of a dryer, less hungrily sentimental 1952 movie of the same title. A moment before he is abandoned, young Roger asks his father when they might become a family again. "When the Angels win the pennant," the father says. He is talking about the more hopeless of the Los Angeles baseball teams. That night Roger offers up prayers, and seraphim respond. With their help, the Angels start winning. Only Roger can see the small-a angels, and so he is needed to tell the perpetually riled...