The 1995 Major League Baseball season was the first season to be played under the expanded postseason format, as the League Division Series (LDS) was played in both the American and National leagues for the first time.

Its player strike finally settled, baseball faces a monumental task to bring back the fans—and makes solid headway with the record-breaking performance of Cal Ripken Jr., Hideo Nomo’s sensational debut and the Cleveland Indians’ first pennant in over 40 years. Replacement players created major issues for two American League teams. The affected players include

However, it wasn't until major league owners parlayed plans to have replacement players play in 1995 that the players got into serious negotiations. MLB and the local NBC and ABC stations lost a combined $595 million in advertising revenue, and both networks announced that they would be opting out of the deal after the shortened 1995 season; the On March 28, 1995, the players voted to return to work if a As part of the terms of the injunction, the players and owners were to be bound to the terms of the expired collective bargaining agreement until a new one could be reached and the start of the season would be postponed three weeks, with teams playing an abbreviated 144-game season instead of a 162-game season. The 1995 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 66th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball.The game was held on July 11, 1995, at The Ballpark in Arlington in Arlington, Texas, the home of the Texas Rangers of the American League. April 25 – Major League Baseball begins its strike-shortened 144-game season. The dispute was played out with a backdrop of years of hostility and mistrust between the two sides. After the 1994 season was ended due to the players' strike, there was still a deal that had to be worked out. The Arguably, the biggest storyline of the strike was the On January 4, 1995, five bills aimed at ending the baseball strike were introduced into After the deadline passed with no compromises, the use of replacement players for spring training and regular season games was approved by baseball's executive council on January 13.

The strike began on August 12, 1994, and resulted in the remainder of that season being cancelled, including the postseason and, for the first time since 1904, the World Series. The strike was suspended on April 2, 1995, after 232 days, making it the longest such stoppage in MLB history and the longest work stoppage in major league professional sportsat the time (b…

1995: Thanks to Cal, Hideo—and Sonia, Too. April 2 – After 232 days, the 1994–95 MLBPA Players Strike comes to an end when judge Sonia Sotomayor ends the strike. The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was the eighth work stoppage in baseball history, as well as the fourth in-season work stoppage in 22 years. The '94 season famously ended in August, thanks to the strike and players and owners being unable to come to an agreement in time to save the World Series.

Replacement players were reportedly guaranteed US$5,000 for reporting to spring training and another $5,000 if they made the Opening Day roster. The This article is about the 1995 Major League Baseball season only.

During the first days of the 1995 season, some fans remained irate at both players and owners.While a total of 50,010,016 fans had attended the 1,600 MLB regular season games played in 1994, averaging 31,256 per game,A few of the fans who showed up demonstrated their frustration,The opening games were played with replacement umpires, the first time since Opening Day 1991 that replacement umpires were used.On August 3, 1995, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a bill calling for the partial repeal of baseball's While replacement players from the 1995 spring training were allowed to play on postseason teams, these players were not allowed to have their names or likenesses on any commemorative merchandise; furthermore, they could not be featured in video games or tabletop games, and were instead replaced by placeholder players.

On July 13, 1994, Fehr said if serious negotiations between the players and the owners did not begin soon, the players could go out on strike in September of that year, threatening the postseason. In the NLDS, it was the near-opposite to the New York/Seattle series.

But that cancellation did not fix all the labor problems, and we were very close … What arguably stood in the way of a compromise settlement was the absence of an official Fehr rejected the offer from the owners on July 18. Walt Weiss well remembers the baseball strike of 1994-95.

The The strike, however, resulted in ABC losing out on two weeks of coverage and the World Series and NBC losing out on all of its allotted regular season games. April 8 – The Colorado Rockies sign free agent outfielder Larry Walker. 1995 MLB Standings, Team and Player Statistics, Leaderboards, Award Winners, Trades, Minor Leagues, Fielding, Batting, Pitching, New Debuts