this is extremely good because he’s an outspoken MLB player in a sport where most American athletes are brain-dead MAGAs. Please baseball players be more like Brandon!
In 1994 the Major League Baseball players went on strike mid-season. The remainder of the season was canceled and for the first time in 90 years there was no World Series.
The strike occurred because the League, the owners, and the players all disagreed about a potential salary cap, and a revenue share model to keep the smaller market teams from going bankrupt. It sounds good on paper but as the players association and the owners got into bargaining they disagreed on every detail.
The players heard ‘salary cap’ and thought their pay was going to be cut. The owners didn’t like the idea of players hitting free agency in 4 years instead of 6. Basically, there was no consensus.
Fans were furious. They saw the players as greedy and selfish for walking away, especially mid season. To this day I twinge when I hear ‘salary cap’ even though I think it’s for the best. (I’m a hockey fan and it’s made the league way more interesting by adding that layer of strategy to the game.)
The biggest heart break was the Montreal Expos who were 74–40, leading the league and having their best season in franchise history. With the season coming to an abrupt halt in August they didn’t get their chance to compete for a World Series. The fans were pissed.
Ironically, the Expos were exactly the kind of small market team that MLB was worried about and trying to protect. Even though they were having a good season, the MBL wasn’t wrong. The Expos couldn’t sustain in Montreal. 10 years later would move to DC and become the Washington Nationals.
The strike lasted 232 days ending in April of 1995. The league had a shortened 1995 season but did have playoffs and a World Series. The Expos didn’t even make the playoffs finishing last in their division,
April 15, 1947, was an opening day like no other at Ebbets Field. Jackie Robinson made his historic Major League debut—the first African-American player in modern baseball history. With him in the Dodgers’ dugout are Spider Jorgensen, Pee Wee Reese, and Eddie Stanky.
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Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball 75 Years Ago #OnThisDay
Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball 75 Years Ago #OnThisDay
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Seventy five years ago today, Jackie Robinson made sports and U.S. history when he took to the infield as a Brooklyn Dodger against the Boston Braves and integrated Major League Baseball. To read about Robinson, read on. To hear about him, press PLAY:
From 1919 to 1931 (with the exception of 1928) the New York Giants issued special passes, mainly made of sterling silver, to season ticket holders and select dignitaries. The passes, manufactured by Lambert Bros. of New York, were designed in a variety of shapes and baseball motifs and included the pass holder’s name on the reverse. The passes entitled the bearers to admission to every Giants game played at the Polo Grounds during a particular season.
This 1929 New York Giants gold pass was issued to New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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