\"Baseball\" The Tenth Inning: Top of the Tenth

This latest entry covers the period from the early 1990's onward. Labor relations deteriorated badly in the early part of that decade leading to the players strikein August 1994. The Montreal Expos were the best team in baseball at the time but when a Federal judge blocked the owners from unilaterally imposing a contract(which would have let them use replacement players) it quickly came to an end and the players returned to work under the old contract. Attendance dropped after thatbut the game recovered quickly with the heroics of Cal Ripkin Jr. By the end of 1990's| fans were caught up in the home run derby presented by Sammy Sosa and MarkMcGwire. There was also the first whiff of scandal when McGwire was accused of using steroids. It was also an era when new baseball stadiums were built in manycities| evoking an earlier age when the parks were built specifically for the sport. The curse of the Bambino finally came to an end with the Boston Red Sox winningthe World Series in ...