History paints the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike as one of the most damaging events in league history. Thousands of fans were disenfranchised and it took several years for the game to return to its previous level of popularity, if it ever really did. Even some inside the game saw that strike as a turning point.
“I never felt the same way about baseball again after that,” Dave Stewart, a four-time 20-game winner and former General Manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, told USA TODAY Sports. “Even today, after all of my years in baseball, the passion I have for the game has never been the same.