Baseball's Crisis, and Reinvention

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 5, 2015

In the fall of 1992, baseball was in crisis and on the path to the unthinkable: canceling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners were at war with each other, and the players' growing addiction to steroids threatened the game's very foundation. In The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers, Jon Pessah describes how this moment was a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history.

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