It abruptly ended Michael Jordan's baseball career.
It killed the Montreal Expos franchise.
It stopped Tony Gwynn's march towards baseball immortality.
It was the 1994 Major League Baseball strike.
Twenty years ago Tuesday, baseball came to a screeching halt and didn't return for 232 days. The strike canceled the rest of the 1994 season, and for the first time since 1904, even the World Series.
It forever changed the course of history.
"I never felt the same way about baseball again after that,'' Dave Stewart, a four-time 20-game winner and then pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays, tells USA TODAY Sports. "Even today, after all of my years in baseball, the passion I have for the game has never been the same. All because of that strike.
