Professional Baseball Players Go on Strike
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Economics, Sports
- Subcategories: Business, Athletes, Labor, Unions, Work, Employment, Strikes, Boycotts, Lockouts
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Canadian History
- Geographical Location: Canada, United States
- Date: April 1-13, 1972
Article abstract: Major league baseball players engaged in a brief strike that set the tone for future labor relations in professional sports.
Summary of Event
Sports fans throughout America look forward to the opening of the major league baseball season, an annual ritual that through the decades has acquired almost mythic overtones in the public consciousness. The first games of each new year, played during the traditional season of renewal, are a leisurely prelude to the sterner competitions of the summer and fall. Opening day is a celebration that...
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