increased percentage of the owners revenues. Small market owners are now insisting that all twenty-eight ball clubs share their income equally, not only to maintain parity in the league, but also so the smaller clubs can survive. Money began disappearing from baseball in 1989 when owners, found guilty of collusion, boycotted free agent markets, and were ordered to pay players 10.5 million dollars. Then, in 1990, a huge television deal was set that was going to accumulate more than one - billion dollars throughout major league baseball. The TV package failed, and the owners lost all of the money they were counting on. Finally, in 1992, Fay Vincent, the commissioner of baseball at the time, tried to intervene and help out with labor negotiations, only to be forced to resign by the owners who thought he was out of his place. Now, there is not a commissioner to resolve any problems that baseball has. At this moment, small market teams are coming into control. Last January, the small market owners introduced a revenue - sharing proposal by threatening the big market teams to share radio income with the small market teams. The plan would only be set forth if players agreed to a salary cap, which is where they are now. The large market teams such as Los Angeles, both New York teams, and both Chicago teams, are disregarding the smaller teams problems. They do not believe revenue should be shared among teams. They say it's a business. Revenue sharing would break the business. The truth is that teams with smaller revenues cannot keep up with players salaries, while the teams who can pay them more receive the high price, high talented players, who increase chances of winning and bring in more money. Smaller teams make a good point in saying that a business is not always a competition. They say that this business will not prosper until all aspects, and all job positions in the game are profiting. The only thing both sides agree on is that baseball...
