The strike of 1994, culminating in the cancellation of the 1994 World Series, seemed like the last straw for baseball fans. The decade-long bickering and sniping between owners and players had come to a head. To many, it seemed like a fight between the Rich and the Also Rich, Greed vs. More Greed. The fans, the people who shelled out a couple hundred bucks to take the kids out to the ballpark for a game, were the biggest losers. Fans had simply had enough of what they saw as overpaid players wanting more money from whining owners. Although baseball came back in.
