Though the Japanese pro baseball strike of two weeks ago appears to have won the players a legitimate chance for the entry of a 12th team in time for next season, one veteran player wonders what, if anything, was really gained.
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| Tuffy Rhodes, star outfielder of the Yomiuri Giants, speaks at a meeting of the Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan on Monday night in Tokyo. |
"I think the two-day strike was useless," Yomiuri Giants star outfielder Tuffy Rhodes told the Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan in Tokyo on Monday, in a wide-ranging session that covered a variety of topics.