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| 1969 | Citing "I can't hit when I need to," Mickey Mantle announces his retirement, thus ending his fabled Hall of Fame career. The oft-injured Yankee slugger ranks third, behind Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, on the all-time home run list with 536 round-trippers and finishes his 18-year stay in the majors with a .298 batting average. |
| 1993 | Major League Baseball reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner two and a half years after accepting a lifelong ban from involvement in the team's day-to-day operation. 'The Boss' had been exiled from baseball by commissioner Fay Vincent in 1990 for hiring Howie Spira, a known gambler, to snoop into the life of star outfielder Dave Winfield. |
| 2022 | The MLB and the players' union's failure to reach a new collective bargaining agreement after nearly a year of negotiating prompts Commissioner Rob Manfred to cancel the first two series of the 2022 regular season, citing the logistical challenges of rescheduling the contests because of the increase of interleague play. The decision marks the first time that games will be canceled or postponed due to a work stoppage since the 1994-95 players' strike, which accounted for the loss of over 900 games, including the 1994 World Series. |
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