The last time there was a labor stoppage in baseball, two airplanes carrying St. Louis Cardinals personnel were both gearing up on the tarmac to leave a Miami airport after the Cardinals had finished off an 8-6, rain-shortened victory over the Florida Marlins, just before a baseball strike would be called at midnight on Aug. 11, 1994.
This strike would last until the next spring after replacement players who had been brought in had been coached up for an entire training camp.
The two Cardinals planes were the result of Cardinals management decreeing that only coaches and staff could return on the Cardinals’ chartered flight.