Perspective: Baseball’s history of selfish, shortsighted owners adds another sorry chapter
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In the spring of 1992, I sat with Vincent during an exhibition game in Dunedin, Fla. Vincent loved baseball, and he spent a lot of that beautiful afternoon marveling at the rebirth of the game that spring training symbolized. But when the subject of the owners’ recent hire of a union-busting New York lawyer as their lead negotiator came up, he shook his head sadly.
. This came after the last third of the 1994 season, the playoffs and the World Series had been lost and the owners had made plans to start the 1995 season with replacement players — known in union terms as scabs.for not being a willing accomplice to their scheme to break the union. He was replaced by — who else? — an owner, Bud Selig.The current commissioner is Rob Manfred, who wasn’t an owner but clearly understands — just as Kuhn and Ueberroth did — who pays his eight-figure salary.
Players have a limited window. People tend to focus on the small handful of $30 million annual contracts, but most players make far less than that — and for them, the clock is always ticking.
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