Cincinnati.com · Apr 27, 2020
25 years ago, we saw baseball return from historic monthslong strike
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There had been no Major League Baseball for 232 days. Nearly 1,000 games had been canceled. For the first time in the history of major American sports, an entire postseason — the 1994 MLB playoffs and World Series — was lost due to a labor dispute.
It was a long winter for baseball fans in 1995. The hot stove was colder than usual, as discussions centered not on the previous Fall Classic or the upcoming season, but on a larger, gloomier question: When would baseball return?
“It seemed like a lot longer than it actually was,” ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian said this month in a phone interview.