Editing Major League Baseball (section)

===Scandals and a changing game===
During the 1980s, baseball experienced a number of significant changes the game had not seen in years. Home runs were on the decline throughout the decade, with players hitting 40 home runs just 13 times and no one hitting more than 50 home runs in a season for the first time since the Dead-ball era (1900–1919).<ref name="parade">{{cite web|url=https://parade.com/408556/parade/1980s-the-decade-baseballs-innocence-ended/|title=1980s: The Decade Baseball's Innocence Ended|date=July 3, 2015|publisher=Parade Magazine|author=Gammons, Peter|access-date=February 26, 2019|archive-date=February 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227181937/https://parade.com/408556/parade/1980s-the-decade-baseballs-innocence-ended/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SABR80s">{{cite web|url=https://sabr.org/research/baseball-s-forgotten-era-80s|title=1Baseball's Forgotten Era: The '80s|publisher=Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)|author=D'Addona, Dan|access-date=February 26, 2019|archive-date=February 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227062004/https://sabr.org/research/baseball-s-forgotten-era-80s|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[1981 Major League Baseball strike]] from June 12 until July 31 forced the cancellation of 713 total games and resulted in a split-season format.

In 1985, [[Pete Rose]] broke [[Ty Cobb]]'s all-time hits record with his 4,192nd hit, and in 1989 Rose received a lifetime ban from baseball as a result of betting on baseball games while manager of the [[Cincinnati Reds]]. Rose was the first person to receive a lifetime ban from baseball since 1943.<ref name="parade"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-24-mn-1531-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|title=Pete Rose Banned for Life : Giamatti Says He Bet on Games; Appeal Possible in Year|date=August 24, 1989|access-date=February 26, 2019|archive-date=December 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218132608/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-24/news/mn-1531_1_pete-rose|url-status=live}}</ref> 1985 also saw the [[Pittsburgh drug trials]] which involved players who were called to testify before a grand jury in Pittsburgh related to cocaine trafficking.

The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike from August 12, 1994, to April 25, 1995, caused the cancellation of over 900 games and the forfeit of the entire 1994 postseason.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/12/1994-strike-bud-selig-orel-hershiser|title=The Strike: Who was right, who was wrong, and how it helped baseball|last=Corcoran|first=Cliff|date=August 12, 2014|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=February 27, 2020}}</ref>