Until 1995, spring training had always been a happy time for baseball fans, a time to welcome back trusty veterans, a time to mull the fate of untested prospects decked out in comically high uniform ...
On its face, there could not have been a game with lower stakes and less meaning. But in that year, under the circumstances at hand, that first spring training game of 1995 — an exhibition affair ...
“Replacement spring” during the 1994-95 players’ strike in Major League Baseball was one of the most uncomfortable periods in baseball history, a sign of how far owners were willing to go in a labor ...