As we await meetings between MLB owners and the MLB Players Association this week to try, again, to get a new collective-bargaining agreement in place, I thought it would be useful to review the history of owner/player relations over the last half century.
I posted much of this here last November, but I thought it would be useful to look it over again. I’ve corrected a couple of minor errors from the earlier article and included some additional information that I had inadvertently left out.
With that as preface, here are all the MLB work stoppages, the reasons they happened, and the end result of each — except for the current lockout, which is ongoing.