Why, if they were so hot to contract in 2001, did MLB expand by two teams only three years earlier? From Maury Brown’s interview with Fay Vincent:
Speaking Of Contraction
↵↵Brown: There is the perception that expansion was done to offset the losses incurred over collusion in the ‘80s.
↵Vincent: I don’t think there’s any doubt about it. Look, each owner had a $10 million bill ... they didn’t have the money. So they did what most would business do, they sold interest in the expansion clubs ... And that money, which was vital, paid off their collusion debt. Without it I think baseball would have had a very serious time.
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