the biggest challenges that owners faced trying to run baseball, both as a sport and as a business during that?

Okay.

There were two challenges.

The first is roster construction.

How do we fashion our roster? Once we know that baseball is going to continue, how do we fashion our roster to make sure we've got players ready? who can play at a major league level.

If we sign young players, if we rely on young players, how do we know that he might be in a major league uniform today and an Army uniform next week? That's a problem.

Branch Rickey is running the Pirates at the time.

How did the rise of television during this time change baseball's relationship with the audience?