The long labor war, he feels, did little to solve baseball's problems.

The number is currently hovering around 55 percent, which means the possibility of a labor war and a potential lockout grows.

There once was a time when one couldn't talk labor wars without certain images pushing to the fore.

Why put them in the middle of a nasty labor war?

But on the horizon is the prospect of a labor war potentially uglier than the one baseball went through in 1994 and '95.

Fears grew that the labor war would spread across the country.

"They want us to trust them," said Baylor, a veteran of baseball's labor wars.

The most debilitating labor war in league history cost the players nearly $500 million in salaries.

Such an event had never been heard of before in the long, tempestuous history of American labor wars.

That attitude doesn't win football games, and it won't win labor wars, either.