TIM MARCHMAN

The Corporate Invasion That Never Came

By TIM MARCHMAN | May 13, 2008

Ten years ago this week, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Florida Marlins made the biggest trade in baseball history, and one would have thought baseball to be subject to imminent apocalypse. Looking back, we now know that the biggest threat to the sport’s well-being was a bottle of androstenedione lurking in Mark McGwire’s locker, waiting only for an honest Associated Press reporter named Steve Wilstein to ask about it. At the time, though, the threat seemed to be that Mammon, in his various guises, would devour the game whole.