Since we’re not going to have any Detroit Tigers baseball for at least a few weeks, and since we’ve reached the 25th anniversary of the end of the Major League Baseball players’ strike of 1994-95, now may be a good time to look back on when baseball returned to Detroit for the first time since the strike ended, on May 2, 1995.
It was a bleak time in our national pastime’s history. Players were returning to the field after an unprecedented work stoppage that saw the World Series cancelled in 1994, the first time we had no Fall Classic in 90 years.