Bush has said he would be "furious" if players went on strike in baseball. He didn't say whether he would send in the military to play baseball if such a work stoppage occurs, however. (On the west coast, the Bush Administration has threatened to send in the military to scab on striking longshoremen (should they strike).)
So what is the story on ballplayers' unions, anyway? They are taken as a fact of life by most sports fans, it seems, and when mentioned in the news don't merit the kinds of biased comments that, say, a UNITE! union would. I've known some fairly conservative people who have negative opinions of unions - but but baseball unions are exempted. Are ballplayers' unions in with the AFL-CIO? Do they participate in the labor movement in any way (outside of their contract disputes)?
Brian