Baseball Since The Strike
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Among players, owners, umpires, commissioners, and fans, Strikes are often controversial phenomenon in the world of baseball. It is among these same groups that another kind of less common but even more controversial strike creates animosity – the work stoppage form of strike. When the baseball strike erupted in August of 1994, it represented the eight such work stoppage in baseball since the 1972 between unions and owners (Staudohar 1). In 1991, attendance figures set records for the eighth consecutive time but the aftermath of the strike in 1994-95 which lasted 232 days would put a stop to these kinds of records as fans, television viewers, and others denounced baseball and turned away from the sport (Staudohar 1). Attendance records and the even more crucial TV viewer ratings spiraled downward “Disgruntled fans sent a message of ‘a plague on both your houses’ in 1995 by means of a 20-percent drop in attendance and television contracts were scaled down dramatically because of low ratings that caused CBS to lose about $500 million and ESPN about $150 million” (Staudohar 9; 5). Despite declining attendance, viewership and the resulting loss of profitability, the effects of the 1994 baseball strike were temporary and short-lived. This analysis will discuss the recovery of baseball from the deleterious effects of the 1994 baseball strike, even though the strike resulted in no World Series and generated enormous loss of good wi
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of the strike continues to affect the industry “Baseball has lost money every year since the strike” (Eisenbath 4). Despite these sentiments, many other argue to the contrary and statistics appear to support the conclusions of this camp who feel that baseball “Is clearly the best it’s ever been in the last 20 years” (Eisenbath 4).
Those who argue in favor of the complete and total recovery of baseball since the strike of 1995, do not just contend that baseball is doing as well or better than it was before the strike. Many of them assert that baseball, just five years after the allegedly devastating effects of the strike, is doing better than ever. Pointing to rising attendance rates, increased media revenues, and the fact that no owner has ever lost money who has bought and then later sold a baseball team, Don Fehr, executive director of the Major League Baseball Player’s Association (MLBPA), states:
You can look at average attendance in major league baseball, look at the TV contracts and the money involved there, and that’ll give you a clue. What was once accepted as a benchmark as the best was 3 million in attendance. Now, that’s the expectation if you’re doing well. In 1985, Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN didn’t exist.
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Approximate Word count = 2030
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)
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