It’s the early 1990s and Major League Baseball is facing down what would be a year long lockout between owners and players. This lockout would be credited with hampering baseball’s status as “America’s game”, allowing football and other sports to fill the void of attention left behind.
It has taken a couple of decades and major changes to the game, plus the rise of minor league baseball and other baseball spinoffs, to get baseball back into a growth phase.
Yet, here we are, thirty plus years later, as we are facing down another long term work stoppage. However, Major League Baseball has to contend not only with other American sports leagues, but with other international baseball leagues as well.
As fans are now being threatened with losing their team for the foreseeable future, I sat down with multiple fans that may become free agents looking for another form of baseball to watch come spring time...