this is about 20 minutes. >> host: on the screen is william b. gould. e is an emeritus professor of law at tampered and the author of "bargaining with baseball: labor relations in an age of prosperous turmoil." mr. gould, why are you writing about this topic? it's really two different levels. one is someone who's played the game is a young man, as a child, followed throughout my life. i suppose passionately involved in that. principally an observer and does allow someone who has about it, teaching sports for, talking a lot about baseball and labor law and finally i suppose the role that comes up in this book in particular is my involvement as both an arbitrator during the clinton administration when we were involved at that time and one of the greatest strikes in terms of duration and serving as a landmark for the development of a spell as a business in the entire history of the game. this season was shut down. in 90 four this season was shut down beginning in office for the first time since 1904. the world series was canceled and in the spring of 1995,