If players strike, they could risk millions of future fans

Sunday, August 18, 2002

It's August 30. Do you know where your kids are? We know where they won't be a week from Friday, if grown men can't decide how to split $3.5 billion. And if there indeed is a strike, it makes you wonder if today's kids will ever again connect to big-league baseball the way their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents did.

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