Playboy's 1997 Baseball Preview
May, 1997
Baseball has been like a bad movie lately. Like Ransom, but dumber. It started three years ago when the players went on strike, taking the game hostage: "Pay up or else." Owners were furious. They wanted to kill the game themselves. They shot the hostage, canceling the World Series. The labor wars of 1994--1997 snuffed interest in the game. The last man standing was Yogi Berra, looking around an empty Yankee Stadium, saying, "If the people don't want to come out the park, nobody's...
