in that year, 1890, john montgomery ward, persuaded the -- his fellow baseball players, to start a rivalgue. forget the national league and its stupid morals clause and especially its stupid reserve clause. let's start a players league. and john montgomery ward got businessmen to back him and he promised the baseball players who would leave the national league, and all the stars playing for the national league, he promised them fair shares of power and profit. this was revolution. four out of every five national leaguers taking great economic risk, it must be said, desserted the professional baseball establishment. national league, to create this rival organization, the players league. and when they started playing, that was the strike that i'm talking about. the strike of 1890. and the season of 1890 featured the teams in the players league martialed by john montgomery ward, all the star players, they were out drawing the national league and all the big cities, and as the season wore on, that continued to be true and then suddenly it wasn't. the reason it wasn't is because it wasn't a s

montgomery county will come to school wearing blue. it is to honor their classmate, john dereereggi jr. he was hit and killed by a train yesterday. derrick ward has more. >> reporter: the investigation is still going on into just how and why this happened. there has been a reaction to the dpre grief of that loss. this all happened yesterday in boyds, maryland, about 4:45 p.m. the teen, 16-year-old john martin dereggi jr. was walking along the train tracks near the boyds marc station. police say they don't know why and still investigating why and how this happened, but at some point he walked on to the tracks and into the path of an oncoming amtrak train. there was a quick social media reaction to this. we had some tweets that have come from this community with noting the tragic loss and extending condolences to the teen's family. and another asking evan at the school to wear blue in honor of their fellow students. the accident suspended marc rail traffic for several hours while the investigation ensued. and they're still trying to investigate exactly how this happened. we're live at clarksburg high school. >>> 5:32. potential scramble for pow