After two stints at White Sox spring training and a full season in Birmingham, Michael Jordan announced he was giving up baseball.
Part of the reason was because of his struggles with the game. But the other, larger part, as he explained to author Bob Greene in the book Rebound, The Odyssey of Michael Jordan was because he was being pressured by Sox GM Ron Schueler to cross the MLBPA picket line.
With replacement games set to start during the lockout of major leaguers, Jordan said he was told that if he didn’t cross the line, he’d be banished from the main clubhouse.