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Author and Columbia University professor Lee Lowenfish visits with his book, The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball's Labor Wars. From the reserve clause of 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation’s history. In The Imperfect Diamond, Lowenfish tells the stories of the players and their opponents -- the powerful team owners. He discusses the Players League Rebellion of 1890, the rise and fall of David Fultz and the Baseball Players Fraternity, the iron-fisted regime of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the founding of the Baseball Players Association, the midseason strike of 1981, the 1994-95 strike that wiped out the World Series, and much more.