Relax, Bud Selig! Your sport dominates the list. Keep fighting the good fight, Commish.
#5: 1972 (MLB)
"The strike that started it all. This first baseball strike only lasted for 13 days, but when it was over we all had ourselves some terminology that today is one of the first ten or twenty words any true aspiring fan learns as a baby -- mmm ... arbitration. At the time, the whole thing seemed like it had been cooked up by the ghost of the Babe -- the games that were missed during the work stoppage were never made up, and so the Tigers ended up playing one extra game than the Red Sox that year, a significant game in the end, because Detroit edged Boston by a half game in the standings to take the AL East. A lesser known chapter in the Curse of the Bambino."
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