OIbermann reported on them for ESPN

Olbermann writes that baseball's ownership ""were one good court ruling away"" from breaking the players' union and blackballing any player who didn't cooperate with their demands.The Baltimore Orioles had completely suspended operations, because owner Peter Angelos had once been a labor lawyer and wanted nothing to do with scabs or union-busting.Toronto had moved its operations to a 5,500 seat stadium in Dunedin, Fla., replica Bell & RossVintage 123 V123BEI-SB Men because it was illegal for them to perform with replacement labor in Canada.And Cal Ripken Jr.'s pursuit of Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played streak was in the balance.I only remember these bad times as a senior in college.

OIbermann reported on them for ESPN.So, he argues, scab players pay a justifiable and largely symbolic penalty for empowering an ownership hellbent on busting the union, even to the point of taking a wrecking ball to the game of baseball.Fair enough.But I do think Olbermann's kicker is a little over the top: ""If you feel your video game is incomplete without Brendan Donnelly, you may be a little too into video games."" Donnelly may not be replica Bell & RossVintage 123 V123BEI-SL Men an all-star, but ask a Sox gamer how he feels about seeing Millar, a beloved member of the 2004 World Series championship team, represented in the 2005 video games as a black man with a blond goatee.Wrong [Baseball Nerd, Official MLBlog of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

Thanks to Rae H.for spotting this]" "Fifteen years ago, in the infancy of console sports simulations, 38 baseball players made a choice that would ensure they would never appear in a video game.Only five of them remain in the major leagues.They crossed a picket line, an act of war to organized labor, by signing replacement player contracts with replica Bell & RossVintage 123 V123BLK-SB Men Major League clubs as the infamous 1994 players' strike dragged into the spring of 1995.Just five of them logged major league service in 2009 and they're all 38 years old or older.But the continued absence of their names in games is one of the last persistent vestiges of the baseball strike of 1994 and 1995.