![]() Here we are in 2021, then, on a dark road cluttered with potholes and weeds and empty Spider Tack jars and even a few trash cans from Houston, with baseball lurching toward another dead end. A phony home-run spectacle was needed to generate interest, leading to a steroids scandal that bled into more inventive ways of cheating - from electronic sign-stealing to, now, the illegal sticky gunk used by pitchers to elevate spin rate and make batters miss with historic futility. And baseball never has been the same in American life, allowing football to dash by as the new sporting passion while Michael Jordan and subsequent basketball showmen hijacked our imagination. Next thing you knew, that World Series was canceled. ‘‘A hawk,’’ he said, with sinister intent. Sometimes, they slip and fantasize aloud about breaking the union, such as the day Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf - his club angling toward its first World Series title since the Black Sox threw one - declared he wanted to be a labor demon. ![]() It’s played up in the luxury suites, where the owners sit and and plot in perpetual mischief, calculating how to beat the Players Association. ![]() The real ballgame never has been on the field, of course.
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