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What could be more American than a Major League Baseball Game? Can¡¦t most people identify with the experience of visiting a Major League Baseball park? General Motors used to market its Chevrolet line of vehicles with a jingle that equated baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet. It¡¦ our national past time that invokes fond memories of our youth and fosters dreams of young boys and girls everywhere. Certainly Major League Baseball is a pure form of entertainment meant to be afforded by all and free of business controversy, right? Not quite!
These days, Major League Baseball (MLB) has had its share of economic woes that make the business side of baseball all too real. In August of this year, the owners and player¡¦s union narrowly averted another work stoppage that many people felt could have driven baseball fans all around the country out of the parks for good. Strikes in 1984 and 1994 brought out the ugly side of baseball that most just don¡¦t wish to see. After all, pe...

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