Donald fehr baseball strike 1994
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Griff’s The Pitch
In 1994, the impact and influence of major pro sports in Canada was at an all-time and group-euphoria high. The Blue Jays were defending back-to-back World Series champs in 1992-93 and, then, in ’94, the Expos were dominating the National League standings, with the best record in all of baseball.
In addition, at the same time, the Canadiens were defending Stanley Cup champions, having clinched the championship the previous spring, with a 4-1 win over the Kings, June 9, 1993. That June ‘93 Cup championship night, just down the road at Olympic Stadium, the Expos had just lost 3-2, in 12-innings vs. the Reds and were heading out of town to begin a road-trip in St. Louis. As the team bus cruised quietly down Boulevard Rene Levesque, around midnight, we could see signs of the raucous celebration well underway, downtown, smiling and dreaming of one day creating a joyous celebration of our own.
How good were those times for CDN pro sports? The previous two World Series and a Stanley Cup good. Canadian franchises were on a roll. It was in that context, that on Aug. 11, 1994 in Pittsburgh, the Expos, the hottest team in baseball, winners of 20 of the previous 23 games, coming back, as they had, from 4.5 games behind the Braves on June 20, to a six-game lead, face
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1994–95 Major League Baseball strike
| 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike | |
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| Date | August 12, 1994 – April 2, 1995 (7 months and 3 weeks) |
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| Resulted in | Agreement reached to end strike via injunction on April 2, 1995, without a salary cap
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The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was the eighth and longest work stoppage in Major League Baseball (MLB) history, as well as the fourth in-season work stoppage in 22 years.[1] The strike began on August 12, 1994, and resulted in the remainder of that season, including the postseason and the World Serie