How many times have baseball players gone on strike?
With rich ballplayers and even richer owners, you wouldn’t expect baseball to have labor problems. Just keep the turnstiles open, and let the money roll on in. Sadly, divvying up the profits is never that easy, and both sides are rattling their sabers again, and threatening another strike. To find out how many times players have gone on strike in the past, we started with a simple search on “baseball players strike.” We quickly found a page that outlined the eight work stoppages in Major League Baseball history. It turns out that the players union has gone on strike a total of five times, while owners have locked players out three times. For an in-depth look at the acrimony and historical bitterness, we searched on “
