Major League Baseball did not establish its revenue-sharing program without a fight. It took until the 1996 collective bargaining agreement, the first signed after the contentious 1994-95 strike, and that plan was gradually implemented. The current plan, in which 34 percent of all “net local revenue” from all 30 major-league teams is subject to redistribution, […]
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David Cone and the Trade that Sunk the ’92 Brewers
During the 26-year playoff drought Milwaukee endured from 1982 through 2008, the 1992 Brewers marked the nearest miss. It wasn’t a team of stars — Robin Yount was 36 and had lost his power stroke, the starting rotation was led by such luminaries as Bill Wegman and Jaime Navarro, and Doug Henry closed his way […]