1985 Major League Baseball strike

Major League Baseball labor relations
Work stoppages
1972 strike  • 1973 lockout  • 1976 lockout 1980 strike  • 1981 strike  • 1985 strike 1990 lockout  • 1994–95 strike 2021–22 lockout
Topics
Collective Bargaining Agreement  • Collusion  • Reserve clause  • Seitz decision
People
Principal owners Commissioner of Baseball Major League Baseball Players Association Major League Baseball Umpires Association
Court cases
Federal Baseball Club v. National League (1922) Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. (1953) Flood v. Kuhn (1972)
Baseball, Organized labor
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The 1985 Major League Baseball strike was the fifth work stoppage in Major League Baseball since the 1972 Major League Baseball strike.^[1] The strike lasted only two days, August 6 and 7. Of the 25 games scheduled for those days, 23 were made up later in the season with the only two games not being made up being a game between the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium and a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers at Arlington Stadium which were both scheduled to be played on August 7.