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A rebroad­cast of the inter­view with Jeff Katz about his book Split Sea­son: 1981.

The nev­er-before-told sto­ry of the momen­tous sea­son torn in half by the bit­ter play­ers strike.

1981 was a water­shed moment in Amer­i­can sports, when play­ers turned an oli­garchy of own­ers into a game where they had a real voice. Mid­way through the sea­son, a game-chang­ing strike ripped base­ball apart, the first time a sea­son had ever been stopped in the mid­dle because of a strike. Mar­vin Miller and the MLB Play­ers Asso­ci­a­tion squared off against Base­ball Com­mis­sion­er Bowie Kuhn and the own­ers in a fight to pro­tect play­ers rights to free agency and defend Amer­i­ca’s pastime.