Quote Originally Posted by Chubminnow View Post
I wonder why there's a players union to begin with...baseball, football or otherwise. I was sitting here wondering if the players ever went on strike and I think I remember the baseball guys going on strike one summer...didn't they?
There have been a lot of strikes. Major league baseball has been on strike at least 10 times, maybe more. The NHL didn't even have a season in 2004-2005 due to a strike. In 1987 three regular season games were played with "replacement players" because there was a strike.