When and if Major League Baseball finally starts the 2020 season, it will need something special to get things going.
One West Coast writer says it needs a repeat of the summer of 1998.
That’s the year Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Junior waged an assault on the single-season home run record, bringing fans still bitter about 1994 players strike back to the ballpark.
The best candidates for such a rivalry these days seem to be Los Angeles Dodgers star Cody Bellinger and Brewers standout Christian Yelich.
The advice is – market the young stars like those two and Ronald Acuna, Juan Soto and Pete Alonso to build excitement and give fans something to root for.
