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Though the legendary Alexander Doubleday had years earlier declared that baseball was created for its fans, the fans were now shut out — and they mourned for the game they loved.
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he end came with a season suspending walk-out on August 12, 1994. Millions clung to hopes the strike would be brief. But talks soon broke down and the dreaded announcement finally came in September. For the first time in nearly a century, The World Series was cancelled.
In the small college town of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, two friends and neighbors — Craig "Catfish" Fogel and Tom "Terminator" Miller — mourned along with them. Lifelong baseball fans, the two friends found themselves enjoying a brew together on the very night of the scheduled opening game of the cancelled World Series. "Terminator" began reminiscing, recounting for his friend the age-old baseball stories told him as a boy by his great-grandfather.
Enthralled as a youngster by his “Great-Grandaddy's" first-hand accounts of the game’s earliest days, he now repeated for his friend the tales of a long-forgotten era when it was the fans who had mattered most. Fondly, he recalled his great-grandfather’s stories of the spectators’ version of the game he had loved called, "Beer Can Baseball."
Suddenly "Catfish" turned to his friend. “Why not bring it back?” The men paused and looked at each other. Why not? Why not return to the era when the game of baseball was born...when the game was played for the sheer joy of it. Why not honor the memory of the players and the fans who played the game for the simple sport of it? The idea electrified them.
The two friends realized it could be the perfect time to resurrect the original “spectator” version of the game — on the very night the World Series had been taken from its millions of fans. Adopting the unplayed 1994 World Series as the official starting date for a new era in baseball, they dedicated themselves to reviving the memory of the men who had once played for the sheer joy of the spectators — and vowed to give the game back to the fans.
Now the search began for "The Original Beer Can Baseball." Night after night, weekend after weekend, the two searched age-old records. Crawled through hot dusty attics. Scoured obscure newspaper clippings. Researched private papers and weathered old scorecards. Even reassembled hand-scrawled family letters passed down through generations. Until finally...one night...they knew they had it...!
