During this delay, we've been looking back at specific years in baseball history. Now that there is baseball -- there's going ...

CINCINNATI- UNDATED 1981: Tom Seaver of the Cincinnati Reds pitches during an MLB game at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Seaver played for the Cincinnati Reds from 1977-1982. (Photo by Ron ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Freedman is lawyer and IBWAA member who writes about baseball. Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball ...

JEFF KATZ: The 1981 strike was the first mid-season strike in sports history and, as such, deserves extra attention. After the players were granted free agency by an arbitrator’s decision in December ...

NOTE: This column is adapted from a similar column published last year, because people apparently still don't remember or know about the 1981 NLDS. Didn't realize the franchise already won a playoff ...

It truly was the best of times and the worst of times in baseball in 1981. On one hand, the "Fernandomania" phenomenon brought unmatched levels of excitement to the game every fourth of fifth day in a ...

While the 59-day Major League Baseball strike mid-summer created a form of baseball no one had ever seen before, in Oakland fans turned out in record numbers for Billy Ball and a season that was ...

It’s fun to play on the internet and encounter treasures like the full television broadcast of the 1981 World Series. Pearl Bailey sang the anthem. The lead play-by-play voice belonged to a man better ...

The last time two of baseball's most storied franchises -- the Yankees and Dodgers-- faced each other in New York came in the 1981 World Series. So in honor of that matchup finally taking place ...

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