Playboy's 1991 Baseball Preview
May, 1991
It Began with the echo of padlocks. Baseball's bosses, who had long conspired against the workers, faced a mob that was hungry for its pound of flesh. So the owners, like the cast of Night of the Living Dead, locked the gates and boarded up the ticket windows. The players stormed in and ate them alive. Labor beat management in the lockout wars by $280,000,000---the price of the collusion finding against the owners.Baseball 1990 started late. The Cincinnati Reds, who as the first pro club own the...
