>>host: now on your screen is william b. gould iv professor of law here is stanford and also the author of this book "bargaining with baseball" labor relations in age of prosperous turmoil" mr. gold why are you writing about this topic? what is your involvement? >>guest: to different levels someone who has played the game as a young man and as a child and follow did throughout my life. i suppose passionately involved in it and as principally the observer and as well someone who has written about it teaching sports law and talking about baseball in labor law and sports law and finally i suppose, because the role that comes up in this book in particular is my involvement as the arbitrator in those particular as the chairman of the nlrb during the clinton the administration and when we were involved at that time of one of the greatest straight in terms of duration and serving as a landmark in the entire history of the game. the entire season was shut down beginning in august for the first time since 1904 the world see -- world series