1994 in Baseball - Headline Events of The Year

Headline Events of The Year

As a result of a players' strike, the MLB season ends prematurely on August 11, 1994. No postseason (including the World Series) is played. Minor League Baseball is not affected.

During the shortened Major League Baseball season, the league adorns uniforms and stadiums to announce its celebration of the 125th anniversary of baseball's first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

The Yomiuri Giants celebrate their sixtieth anniversary with their eighteenth championship in the Japan Series.

Considered by some to be among history's greatest athletes, Michael Jordan suits up for the Birmingham Barons, the Class AA affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. He plays in his first game on April 9, going 0-for-3.

Read more about this topic:  1994 In Baseball

Famous quotes containing the words headline, events and/or year:

    Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
    Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
    Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.
    Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    “The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    ... breaks ancestrally each year into
    Regenerate union. Let it always be there.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)