(The 1981 season is excluded because the strike shortened the season.)
The NFL was forced to hire substitute players after another strike in 1987 shortened the season by one game in which the Lions finished 4-11.
Ripken also helped rescue baseball from its funk after a strike shortened the 1994 season.
A players' strike shortened the 1982 season to nine games.
As a result, he spent the entire strike shortened 1994 season on the disabled list.
When a 50-day strike interrupted the 1981 season and eventually shortened it by about one-third, baseball decided that the candidates for the best average or best e.r.a. would still be judged under the formulas established in 1957 - 3.1 plate appearances per game or one inning pitched per game - with performances based upon fewer games.
For the 2011-2012 season (strike shortened) they made the playoffs with the best winning percentage in their history (.606) and they Won First Round vs. Memphis Grizzlies, 4-3 and then Lost Conference Semifinals to San Antonio Spurs 4-0.
In 1994, Vizcaino, now a starter for the first time in his career, collected 105 hits before the strike shortened the season.
On January 2, 1983, a 1-7 Rams team met the 3-5 defending Super Bowl champion 49ers in San Francisco for the last game of the 1982 season (a players' strike shortened the season to 9 games), with the 49ers needing a win to make the playoffs.
Walker's best season was in the strike shortened 9-game season of 1982, when he recorded 3 interceptions on defense and 433 kickoff return yards, assisting his team to a championship appearance in Super Bowl XVII.
