“Just one more
great reason to love
the game!”
-Bruce D.
Maryland

“I love it...and
I never worry about
my Beer Can Baseball
striking for
more money!”
-Andy G.
Pennsylvania

“I was born
to play Beer Can
Baseball!”
-Wild Thing
Syracuse University

ith its inaugural season underway in 1876, baseball’s new National League quickly took hold. As the young nation grew, its new national pastime grew with it. By the turn of the century, professional baseball was an American fixture. By 1903 the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates would meet Boston from the newly formed American League to give the world baseball’s first World Series.

By now the game of baseball increasingly focused on the skills of its athletes on the field. Having helped to develop and spread baseball’s nationwide popularity, Beer Can Baseball quietly began fading into obscurity as owners now encouraged their fans to come to their ballparks to enjoy simply watching the game.

For fans, tough times still lay ahead — notably the "Black Sox Scandal" of 1919. But the game by now was so deeply ingrained in the American way of life that it would not only survive its occasional difficulties, it would grow and prosper in spite of them. Whatever the world’s condition, one thing every American counted on every year was the playing of baseball’s fall classic.

Through worldwide depression, two World Wars and other major wars, assasinations and social upheaval, Americans still paused every autumn to enjoy the greatest event in sports — The World Series.

As the 1994 season dawned, the game of baseball seemed ready to enjoy unprecedented success. The previous season, 70.2 million fans packed 28 major league stadiums throughout North America, an all-time record. Fan interest had never been higher.

But trouble was brewing. The game which had survived every world crisis for 115 years would now prove the only thing it couldn’t handle was its own success. Facing once unimagined prosperity, owners and athletes found themselves locked in a death grip over control of baseball’s growing fortunes. Left on the outside looking in were — the fans.
 

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