Headline Events of The Year
As a result of a players' strike, the MLB season ends prematurely on August 11, 1994. No postseason (including the World Series) is played. Minor League Baseball is not affected.
During the shortened Major League Baseball season, the league adorns uniforms and stadiums to announce its celebration of the 125th anniversary of baseball's first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
The Yomiuri Giants celebrate their sixtieth anniversary with their eighteenth championship in the Japan Series.
Considered by some to be among history's greatest athletes, Michael Jordan suits up for the Birmingham Barons, the Class AA affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. He plays in his first game on April 9, going 0-for-3.
Read more about this topic: 1994 In Baseball
Famous quotes containing the words headline, events and/or year:
“Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)