1972 baseball strike

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The 1972 baseball strike was the first players' strike in Major League Baseball history. The strike occurred from April 1, 1972 to April 13, 1972. Baseball resumed when the owners and players agreed on a $500,000 increase in pension fund payments. The 86 games that were missed over the 13-day period were never played because the league refused to pay the players for the time they were on strike. As a result, some teams only played 153 games, nine fewer than normal.

One major effect of the uneven schedule was that the Detroit Tigers played one more game than the Boston Red Sox, and thereby won the American League East Division by 1/2 game over the Red Sox. The Tigers won the division on the next-to-last day of the season when they beat Boston, 3-1, at Tiger Stadium.

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