1972 Major League Baseball strike: Canceled 86 games. ... but the games missed were made up at the end of the season. 1990 Major League Baseball lockout: Canceled no games.

It was front-page news on April 1, 1972, because it was still a novelty, of sorts. Baseball had never endured a regular-season work stoppage before. No sport had. But at 12:01 a.m., almost 50 ...

Don Kessinger belted a two-run homer to lead the Cubs to a 7-3 win over Cleveland in an exhibition game in New Orleans on March 31, 1972. But an exhibition of a different kind was taking place ...