mr. gould, why are you writing about this topic? what's your involvement?>> guest: well, my involvement really is in two different levels. one is as someone who's played the game as young man, as a child, followed it throughout my life. i suppose been passionately involved in it as principally an observer and as well one who has -- someone who has written about it, teaching sports law, talking a lot about baseball in both labor law and sports law and, finally i suppose, the role that comes up in this book in particular is my involvement as both an arbitrator and most particularly as the chairman of the national labor relations board during the clinton administration when we were involved at that time in one of the greatest strikes, the greatest strike in terms of duration and kind of serving as a landmark for the development of baseball as a business in the entire history of game. the season was shut down at -- >> host: that's '94? >> guest: '94. the season was shut down beginning in august, that's the first time since 1904 the world series was canceled. an