Looking back at the impact of the 1994 Major League Baseball strike

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The 1994 World Series was called off, replacement players filled spring training rosters in 1995, and attendance dipped for a decade. No one wants another strike.
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Former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser talks about the events leading up to the 1994 baseball strike when the season abruptly ended.
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The talent-laden Montreal Expos were 74-40 and in first place when the strike took place. Ownership slashed payroll the next year and the team never recovered.
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The strike brought a merciful end to an aimless Angels’ season, but the team flourished in 1995 until collapsing down the stretch and losing a one-game playoff.
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Six weeks of replacement-player ball during 1995 spring was a hoot for participants, an embarrassment to coaches, and a gold mine for baseball writers.
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Tony Gwynn had a realistic chance of batting .400 and Matt Williams was on pace to reach 60 home runs in 1994 when the players’ strike ended the season Aug. 11.
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Erin States was 10 when she held up signs at the Oakland Coliseum that captured the desperation fans felt 25 years ago. Today she’s not much of a fan.