News Summary

• Bud Selig was commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1992 to 2015.
• The players went on strike in 1994 when owners insisted on a salary cap.
• Selig had to call off the World Series, and the players returned in 1995 without a cap.
• The current commissioner, Rob Manfred, has called an offseason lockout a negotiating tool that does not harm the sport so long as regular-season games are not lost.“The last 22 years of my commissionership, we had no lockout, no strike, no nothing,” Selig said.