You only had eight teams, and that's almost half the teams. It was the same thing in the National League. You had the Phillies, the Boston Braves and couple of others that wouldn't win. Everybody accepted it. Now, since the money is bigger, there' s more emphasis on the business side of baseball than there ever has been.
People worry about attendance.
I can remember in the 40s when the average big-league attendance would be 5,000 or 6,000 per game. Nobody bothered much about it. If you drew one million, you had a great year. The big job baseball has to do is to get the owners and the players together and let them realize they are in it for the good of both. Each side needs to make a little bit of compromise because they both have a real good golden goose now.